Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education conference
Short Title: LSPHE2025
Theme: The Evolving Landscape of Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education

Date: 12-Sep-2025 - 13-Sep-2025
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Meeting URL: https://lsphe.wordpress.com/2025-2/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Submission Deadline: 15-Apr-2025

10th Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education conference – LSPHE 2025
The Evolving Landscape of Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education

The annual conference Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education (LSPHE), started in 2015 as a joint effort between the University of Manchester and Cambridge University to bring together LSP practitioners from around the UK and beyond. LSPHE currently serves as a Special Interest Group for the Association of University Language Centres in the UK and Ireland.

The conference has taken place at the following institutions: The University of Manchester (2015), University of Cambridge (2016), University of Oxford (2017), University of Leeds (2018), Imperial College London (2019), The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (2021), University of York (2022), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2023), and Durham (CercleS focus group, 2024). This year, it is hosted by the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences.

The main aim of the conference is to provide an arena for the exchange of the latest insights from the field of LSP by providing an opportunity for the participants to present their most recent research, both theoretical and practical. We hope that this year’s topic The Evolving Landscape of Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education will inspire colleagues to share ways of overcoming new challenges posed by rapid changes in today’s world but also point to new opportunities which emerge from this vibrant global landscape.
The conference themes will focus on, but are not limited to, the following:
• Teaching practice & methodology
• Embedding LSP elements in general/multidisciplinary courses
• Developing students’ skills
• Curriculum design
• Assessment
• ICT and innovation
• Teacher’s role and skills

On behalf of the Organizing committee,
Jan Bogdanovic, University of Cambridge/DAAD, U.K.
Benoît Guilbaud, University of Sussex, U.K.
David Tual, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Jelena Anđelković, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Marija Meršnik, University of Belgrade, Serbia

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Elisabet Arnó-Macià, Associate Professor of English for Specific Purposes at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain).
- Claudia Harsch, professor at the Faculty of Languages and Literature at the University of Bremen, Germany and Academic and Managing Director at the Languages Centre for the Universities in the Land of Bremen (SZHB), Germany

PUBLICATION OPTIONS

BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
The accepted abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts, which will be available in print and online.

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of Komunikacija i kultura online, a double-blind peer-reviewed journal of Faculty or Education, University of Belgrade and FOKUS – Forum for intercultural communication. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS, ERIH+, MIAR, CIRC and DOAJ. The journal is categorized with a national category of M53 for year 2023 by the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia.

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission:
Abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2025
Notification of abstract acceptance: June 1, 2025

Abstracts should be between 200-250 words in length.
Abstracts should be submitted in English and, where applicable, another language (French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish).
Please send your abstracts via the link found in the Call for Papers.
If you should have any questions, please feel free to contact us via email: [email protected].

Registration and conference fees:
Early bird: 120 € (by July 15, 2025)
Standard registration: 140 € (by September 1, 2025)

The conference fee includes a conference kit, a certificate of attendance, coffee breaks, and lunch on both days of the conference.
Payment instructions will be available after the notification of abstract acceptance.