March 7, 2025 - March 8, 2025
https://ills.linguistics.illinois.edu/
We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 17th Annual Meeting of
the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS17), which will be held from March 7-8, 2025 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ILLS is an annual graduate student-run conference aimed primarily at providing graduate and advanced undergraduate students a friendly venue in which they can present and discuss research on any topic related to language and linguistics.
ILLS is a general linguistics conference open to any and all submissions relating to language and linguistics. The conference theme for ILLS17 is “Dialogues for Change: Intersections of Language, Learning, and Society”. Submissions related to this theme are especially encouraged, though submissions are not limited to this theme. We primarily encourage submissions from graduate and undergraduate students. We hold that an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and a collaborative approach to language from a multitude of avenues is fundamental to the advancement of language research and the subsequent understanding of our world, cultures, and societies.
Additionally, the 6th Annual Sociolinguistics Symposium (SOSY) will again be held in conjunction with ILLS this year, celebrating a quarter-century of sociolinguistic innovation and inquiry. The theme will be “Expanding Horizons: A Sociolinguistics Beyond the Boundaries,” which invites us to critically explore and transcend the limits of conventional frameworks, redefining what it means to study language in its dynamic, boundary-crossing forms. If you are interested in SOSY, more information can be found at:
https://publish.illinois.edu/sociolinguisticssymposium/
Please submit your SOSY abstracts to our SEPARATE (SOSY) EasyAbs page:
**Please note, you are welcome to submit abstracts to both SOSY and ILLS, however the same abstract will not be accepted for both events.**
Submission instructions:
To submit an abstract, please visit: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/ILLS-17/
Submissions are limited to one single-author abstract and one multi-author abstract, OR two multi-author abstracts. First and presenting authors must be students.
Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words, with one extra page allowed for images, data, and/or references. Full references are not necessary; please use the (Author, Year) format. Abstracts should be submitted via EasyAbs in PDF format with NO IDENTIFYING INFORMATION of the presenter in the document.
Submissions will close on January 10th, 2025.
Authors will be notified of abstract decisions in late January 2025.
For more details, please visit our website (http://ills.linguistics.illinois.edu/) or contact us at [email protected]
Submissions open: Dec. 10, 2024 - Jan. 10, 2025
Abstract review period: Jan. 11, 2025 - Jan. 31, 2025