6th International UCM Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics
Short Title: UPCEL 2026
Theme: Expanding the Horizons of English Linguistics

Date: 21-Jan-2026 - 23-Jan-2026
Location: Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Contact: Isabel Granda Rossi; Esteban López Medina
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://eventos.ucm.es/135957/detail/expanding-the-horizons-of-english-linguistics.html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

We are pleased to inform you that the 6th edition of UCM's International Predoctoral Conference on English Linguistics (UPCEL) is in motion and will be held on January 21, 22 and 23, 2026 at the Complutense University of Madrid (Faculty of Philology). Organised by the PhD Programme in English Linguistics at UCM—a programme which has consistently maintained an Excellence Distinction from the Spanish Ministry of Education since 2004—UPCEL seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields to create an interdisciplinary space and build a community of practice; it is therefore not only a research venue but also a place where people working in diverse areas can meet and collaborate.

This year’s edition, titled “Expanding the horizons of English Linguistics”, aims to be a forum for reflection and dialogue on the new contexts, challenges, methodologies, and conceptualisations of the construct of ‘language’ that 21st-century Linguistics faces.

We aim to attract contributions from a wide range of areas within the field of English Linguistics that address current research developments and interdisciplinary methods and practices in an ever-changing global paradigm.

As a predoctoral conference, we encourage predoctoral students and early-career scholars to submit their work and share it with us.

The full program is not yet available, but we are honoured to confirm Dr. Francisco Lorenzo Bergillos (Pablo de Olavide University) and Dr. Patricia Bou-Franch (University of Valencia) as keynote speakers.

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