Full Title: 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
Short Title: SLE57

Date: 21-Aug-2024 - 24-Aug-2024
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Contact Person: Anna Kisiel
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2024/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2024

Meeting Description:

57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
21 – 24 August 2024

University of Helsinki

The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) and the University of Helsinki are pleased to announce the 57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2024), to be held in Helsinki from 21 to 24 August 2024.

SLE meetings provide a forum for high-quality linguistic research from all (sub)domains of linguistics. The upcoming edition of the SLE meeting will also host a round table of experts to discuss topics of special linguistic interest.

Final Call for Papers:

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Eva Schulze-Berndt (University of Manchester) Presidential address
Brigitte Pakendorf (DRCE, CNRS)
Sandra Auderset (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology), winner of the Best Postdoc paper at SLE 2023
Víctor Royo Viñuales (Université de Liège - Université catholique de Louvain), winner of the Best PhD paper at SLE 2023

ROUND TABLE: “DECOLONIZATION AND LINGUISTICS – OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES"
A short description of the round table will be available in advance on https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2024. We encourage all SLE members to submit their questions, comments, points for discussion prior to the meeting by emailing the moderator of the round table, Eeva Sippola ([email protected]) or the conference manager ([email protected]).

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Workshop proposals must contain:
(i) five keywords;
(ii) a description of the topic and research questions (between 900 and 1.100 words);
(iii) a (provisional) list of minimum 10 workshop participants and their provisional abstracts (max. 300 words per abstract).

Workshop proposals must be submitted as one file in pdf and be sent to the chair of SLE workshops Frans Hinskens ([email protected]) and to the Conference Manager ([email protected]).

The deadline for the submission of workshop proposals is 20 November 2023. Notification of acceptance/rejection will be by 15 December 2023. After a workshop proposal has been accepted, the convenors will be requested to invite all preliminary workshop participants to submit their full abstracts in EasyChair before 15 January 2024. The link for workshop abstract submission will be available in the Third Call for Papers (published by 15 December). Accepted workshop proposals will be published on the conference webpage.

GENERAL SESSION PAPERS AND POSTERS: SUBMISSION GUIDANCE
deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2024
notification of acceptance/rejection: 31 March 2024

Abstracts should clearly state the research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. They should be anonymous and should not exceed 500 words.

Presentations will last 20 minutes, allowing 5 min. for discussion and 5 min. for speaker and room changes.

Abstracts are submitted via EasyChair within the SLE Members’ Area: https://societaslinguistica.eu/members/login/ Please keep in mind that SLE is a members’ association run by and for members. Hence, the person submitting an abstract has to be an SLE member.

PRESENTING A POSTER
The SLE 2024 meeting will have one or two poster sessions for both senior and junior researchers. In order to foster interaction, all other sessions will be suspended during the poster session.

REVIEWING PROCEDURE
Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by three referees. Workshop abstracts receive two evaluations by Programme Committee members and one by the workshop convenors. Abstracts submitted to the general session and to the poster session will be evaluated by three members of the Programme Committee. The threshold for acceptance is the same for general session papers, posters and workshop papers.

PRIZE FOR THE BEST PRESENTATION AND THE BEST POSTER
At SLE conferences there are prizes for the following categories: best oral presentation by a PhD student, best oral presentation by a postdoc, and best poster.

The first prize in each of the three categories is 500e. The winners of the first prizes in the PhD and Postdoc categories are also awarded a 20+5 mins. plenary talk at SLE 2025 (Bordeaux). The 2nd and 3rd prizes will receive a three-year SLE membership. The best poster will be invited to be published on the SLE website.

ORGANISERS
Chair of the local organising committee: Matti Miestamo (Helsinki) [email protected]
SLE Conference Manager: Anna Kisiel (Leuven), [email protected]
SLE Treasurer: Nikolaos Lavidas (University of Athens), [email protected]
SLE Secretary: Bert Cornillie (KU Leuven), [email protected]