Date: 8-11 January 2026
Place: New Orleans, Louisiana
Deadline for submission: 1 September 2025
Information: https://naahols.wordpress.com/annual-meeting/

The North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS) will hold its 2026 Annual Meeting in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, from 8-11 January 2026. Founded in 1987, NAAHoLS has been meeting as a sister society of the LSA since 1989. We invite papers relating to any aspect of the history of the language sciences. Participants should plan for a 20 minute presentation, followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion.

Abstracts should be submitted via EasyAbs (https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NAAHoLS2026/) following the directions below. Note that we ask you include both a longer 250-500 word abstract and a short (max 100 word) abstract; if accepted, the shorter abstract will be published in the LSA meeting handbook.
1. Authors: Enter author name(s) and affiliation(s)
2. Title: Enter the full title of your submission
3. Document: Upload a file (PDF is preferred) that includes 1) your title; 2) a 250-500 word abstract; and 3) a second short abstract of no more than 100 words. Please do not include your name or any identifying information in this document.
All presenters must be members of NAAHoLS as of the conference date, and will register using the LSA conference registration process. NAAHoLS members are able to register for and attend the full LSA meeting at a discounted member rate, whether or not they are members of the LSA.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 1, 2025 and
notification of acceptance can be expected by September 22, 2025.

Date: 10-11 September 2026
Place: Fribourg (Switzerland)
Organizers: Pierre-Yves Testenoire & Patrick Flack
Information: https://comdial.sdvigpress.org/event-100897

The Prague Linguistic Circle holds a clearly defined place in the historiography of the language sciences: it is recognized as an institutional and localized “hub” (Hoskovec 2011) of programmatic innovation, representing a pivotal moment in the broad transition from 19th-century philological models to the new paradigms of 20th-century linguistics. While the Circle’s European and international influence—particularly the fundamental impact of its contributions to the development of structural phonology—is well known, most of its historians and commentators have focused primarily on its specific context in Prague itself (e.g., Vachek 1966, Viel 1984, Raynaud 1990, Toman 1995, Sériot 2012). In line with a certain cliché that casts the city of Prague as a “golem-like” site of magical encounters (Ripellino 1973, Flusser 1991), the Circle and its theoretical originality are often presented as the product of syncretism, or even as the precipitate of a kind of fusion between different traditions suddenly brought together in the capital of the new Czechoslovak state.

Date: 23-25 March 2026
Place: Montpellier (France)
Submission deadline: 15 October 2025
Information: https://chedil-alhl.sciencesconf.org

Asia is the cradle of important linguistic traditions and lexicography in particular has had a significant history in different Asian countries. Various forms of lexicographic works, such as wordlists, character primers and thesauri, were compiled in the Chinese and Indian linguistic traditions over 2,000 years ago (Hanks, 2013; Bottéro, 2019). These traditions are an essential part of the history of linguistics and world lexicography, and have only recently been recognized as such in global histories of linguistics (see Considine, 2019). These lexicographical traditions have specific genres, patterns and characteristics. Nevertheless, there have been many influences between the lexicographical traditions of different Asian countries. Examples include Chinese lexicographic genres adopted in Japanese and Korean lexicography or Manchu dictionaries and primers in Chinese (Söderblom Saarela, 2019) ; Malay wordlists written in Chinese characters (Van Hal, 2019).