The Making of the Humanities VII University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ‘The Making of the Humanities’ conference returns to Amsterdam! This is the place where the conference series started in 2008, 10 years ago. The University of Amsterdam will host…

UPDATE 28 August 2018: conference program now live We are pleased to announce that the sixth biennial conference of the Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific (SHLP) is to be held on December 13th-14th 2018 at the…

Sprache und Kontext in der Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft 4.–7. Juli 2018 Der “Studienkreis ‘Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft’” lädt zu seinem XXIX. Internationalen Kolloquium ein, das von Mittwoch, den 4. Juli (Anreisetag), bis Samstag, den 7. Juli 2018, in Potsdam stattfinden wird.…

Central Australian Linguistics Circle Meeting 5 April 2018 AND Friends of the Strehlow Centre Symposium 6–7 April 2018 “Reflecting on the past, making tracks for the future” The Symposium reflects on the rich and interesting history of Central Australia which…

10th Conference of Missionary Linguistics 21-24 March 2018, Rome The International Conference on Missionary Linguistics focuses on older texts (colonial, postcolonial, mainly from missionaries) with the following objectives: the history of linguistics, linguistic documentation, translation studies and sociocultural analysis. The…

The Vivien Law Prize is offered annually by the Henry Sweet Society for the best essay in the history of linguistic ideas. The competition is open to all currently registered students, and to scholars who have received their PhD or…

History of linguistics & its Significance ICL20, International Congress of Linguists The Dynamics of Language 2-6 July 2018, Cape Town South Africa Workshop organiser: Camiel Hamans (hamans@telfort.nl), Adam Mickiewicz University Please submit abstracts in English by 24 July 2017: http://www.icl20capetown.com/index.php/2016-06-20-10-33-33/abstracts…

The goal of this conference is to gain a better understanding of transnational exchanges between the German-speaking world and the rest of the world in the fields of linguistics and philology. The period under consideration stretches from the 16th century…