20th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS 20)

Date: 10-Sep-2025 - 12-Sep-2025
Location: Verona, Italy
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/sls20verona/home

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories
Language Family(ies): East Slavic; Slavic; Slavic Subgroup; South Slavic; West Slavic

The 20th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society will take place at the University of Verona, Italy on 10-12 September 2025.

We invite submissions for:
- individual papers for the general session;
- panel proposals for thematic sessions.

Abstracts for individual papers should be limited to 500 words, not including figures or references.
Panel proposals should provide (1) an abstract for the whole panel limited to 1000 words, (2) a list of the names, emails and affiliations of the panel participants and (3) titles of the talks in the panel. Conference panels will be 2 hours, so panel proposals will typically include 4 (or 8) individual presenters who will give 20-minute talks followed by discussion.

Papers dealing with any aspect of Slavic linguistics and within any theoretical framework or methodology are welcome.

All talks will be 20 minutes in length with 5 minutes for discussion and 5 minutes for room change. Abstracts should be written in English. The abstract itself should be anonymous (no identifying information, e.g., name, affiliation, self-reference).

Submission:
- Abstracts should be submitted via Oxford Abstracts (https://auth.oxfordabstracts.com/?redirect=/stages/77504/submitter).
- Submissions are limited to one single-authored and one jointly authored abstract per applicant.
- Panel proposals should be emailed directly to [email protected].

An active SLS membership will be required for presenting at the annual meeting but is not required at the time of initial abstract submission (join/renew here).
Please note that abstracts with student authors are automatically entered into consideration for student travel awards and the annual Townsend award.

Deadline for abstract submission: May 1, 2025.
Notification of acceptance: Early June 2025

SLS-20 is an in-person conference. If any authors are likely to need a letter of support for visa applications or funding purposes, please send us an email to [email protected].