Full Title: Gender-inclusive language in a Multilingual Europe: between institutional policies, their applications and AI-related developments
Short Title: LaGendA

Date: 03-Oct-2024 - 04-Oct-2024
Location: Venice, Italy
Contact Person: Giuliana Giusti
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://www.unive.it/lagenda

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 31-May-2024

Meeting Description:

Over the past three decades, gender-related language policies have spread widely in Europe, at various institutional levels, with different speed and different levels of acceptance and effectiveness.
The conference aims at bringing together expert(s) in linguistics, sociolinguistics, language policies, translation studies and artificial intelligence to discuss, in a comparative perspective, recent developments in language policies, the application of guidelines in university institutions and supranational bodies, as well as new frontiers of machine translation and recent developments in AI regarding gender.
The conference aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue and provide insights into the understanding of gender-inclusive language dynamics while encouraging collaboration among researchers and practitioners engaged in this socially relevant domain.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to language policies at the institutional level, machine translation, and artificial intelligence.

Call for Papers:

Proposals for oral contributions (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion) should be sent to the organizers at the following e-mail address [email protected] by May 31st, 2024.
The message should contain in the subject line: “Contribution to LaGendA” and include in the text the title of the contribution and the name and affiliation of all authors.

The document attached to the message must have the following characteristics and provide the following information: be anonymous; be a doc/docx/rtf document (with pdf version if special characters are included); contain max. 500 words (bibliography and tables excluded); indicate the phenomenon analyzed, the data used and the method of investigation, and provisional results, and provide a bibliography