CHSTM History of Language Sciences spring program 2026

CHSTM Working group History of the Language Sciences. Meetings online.

The meetings of the CHSTM working group on the history of the language sciences continue in spring 2026. We have an exciting program lined up over the next few months:

13 January – Adrianna Link (American Philosophical Society)
Reinventing Anthropology through Crisis and Collections

16 February – John E. Joseph (University of Edinburgh)
Foucault and the archive as ‘system of enunciability’

10 March – Robert Edwards (UC San Diego / Irvine)
Anticolonial Methods in the History of Linguistic Anthropology

28 April – Chloé Laplatine (CNRS, Histoire des théories linguistiques)
History of language documentation in the Pacific Northwest

12 May – Amanda Harris (University of Sydney)
Archived Sound and Creative Engagements with Papua New Guinean Cultural Heritage in Australia

Full details and information on how to join the meetings can be found
on the group’s webpage: https://www.chstm.org/group/history-language-sciences

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Upcoming events


8-11 January 2026
New Orleans, United States
NAAHoLS 2026 Annual Meeting


21-23 January 2026
Paris
SHESL Conference 2026
Versification and the History of Linguistic Ideas


17–20 March 2026
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (Spain)
XV Congreso Internacional de la Sociedat Española de Historiografía Lingüística
Prescriptivism and descriptivism from the peripheries


23–25 March 2026
Montpellier (France)
Asian Languages in the History of Lexicography


2-4 September 2026
Nottingham (UK)
Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2026
(Non-)Native Speakers in the History of Linguistic Ideas


10-11 September 2026
Fribourg (Switzerland)
The Prague Linguistic Circle in Geneva and Paris: Circulations and Decenterings


19-21 November 2026
Sofia (Bulgaria)
La linguistique ‘fonctionnelle’ cent ans après la fondation du Cercle linguistique de Prague


23-27 August 2027
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
ICHoLS XVII