Full Title: 36th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information [Course and Workshop Proposals]
Short Title: ESSLLI 2025

Date: 28-Jul-2025 - 08-Aug-2025
Location: Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Contact Person: Søren Knudstorp
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://2025.esslli.eu/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Philosophy of Language; Semantics

Call Deadline: 10-Jul-2024

Meeting Description:

Under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI), the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) runs every year. Except for 2021, when the school was virtual, it runs in a different European country each year. It takes place over two weeks in the summer, hosts approximately 50 different courses at levels that run from foundational to introductory to advanced, and attracts around 400 participants from all over the world.

Since 1989, ESSLLI has been providing outstanding interdisciplinary educational opportunities in the fields of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Logic, Philosophy, and beyond. It comes from a community which recognizes that advances in our common areas require the contributions of multiple interrelated disciplines.

The main focus of ESSLLI is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation, with special emphasis on human linguistic and cognitive ability. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, and Language and Logic. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited evening lectures.

ESSLLI 2025 - CALL FOR COURSE AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

36th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2025)
July 28-August 8, 2025, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
https://2025.esslli.eu/

Important Dates:

July 10, 2024: Deadline for submitting course/workshop titles
July 24, 2024: Deadline for submitting course/workshop proposals
October 15, 2024: Notification sent to course/workshop proposers

Note that submitting a proposal requires that the person submitting it has an OpenReview profile. Profiles created without an institutional email may go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks to be activated. Profiles created with an institutional email are activated automatically.

Topics and Format:

Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI 2024 are invited in all areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged.

Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Mon-Fri) in a single week. Proposals for two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses. In such cases, the ESSLLI Program Committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals.

All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration fees waived, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course/workshop organizer, and cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The ESSLLI organizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's expenses by seeking partial or complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources.

Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories (see website for details):
- Foundational Courses
- Introductory Courses
- Advanced Courses
- Workshops

Proposal Guidelines:

Course and Workshop proposals can be submitted and presented by no more than two lecturers/organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline.

Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area.
Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail.

Proposals of Courses given at ESSLLI in the previous year will have a lower priority of being accepted in the current year.

Proposals must be in PDF format and include all the following information:

1. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, homepage (optional)
2. General proposal information: Title, category
3. Contents information:
a. Abstract of up to 150 words
b. Motivation and description (up to two pages)
c. Tentative outline
d. Expected level and prerequisites
e. Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys)
4. Information required of course proposers:
a. Will the course appeal to students outside of the main discipline of the course?
b. What experience does the proposer have in presenting an intensive one-week interdisciplinary setting?
c. What evidence is there that the course proposer is an excellent lecturer?
5. Information required of workshop organizers:
a. Information on relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable
b. Information about potential external funding for participants.

Please submit your proposals to: https://openreview.net/group?id=ESSLLI.eu/2025/Summer_School_Proposals