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February, 2013

15-17. 19th Annual Lavender Languages & Linguistics Conference
Submission Deadline: 15 November, 2012
Location: American University, Washington, DC, USA
Website: http://www.american.edu/cas/anthropology/lavender-languages/

28 February-3 March. 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC)
Theme: "Sharing Worlds of Knowledge"
Submission Deadline: 31 August, 2012
Location: Hawai‘i Imin International Conference Center, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Website: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2013/

March, 2013

7-8. International Conference on Urban Multilingualism and Education (UME)
Submission Deadline: 30 September 2012
Location: Ghent, Belgium
Website: http://www.smo-ume.org/node/24

16-19. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2013 Conference
Theme: "Applied Linguistics in a Globalizing World"
Submission Deadline: 17 August 2012
Location: Dallas, TX, USA
Website: http://aaal.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=85

April, 2013

2-5. 7th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2013)
Submission Deadline: 9 November 2012
Location: Bilbao, Spain
Website: http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2013/

July, 2013

22-27. International Congress of Linguists 2013
Theme: "The Language-Cognition Interface"
Submission Deadline: 28 February, 2012
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Website: http://www.cil19.org

September, 2013

9-10. Contested Languages in the Old World Conference
Submission Deadline: 1 May 2013
Plenary Speakers: Prof. Christopher Moseley (UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger), Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith (Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh)
Location: University of Bangor, Gwynedd, United Kingdom
Website:http://clow-conference.bangor.ac.uk/ 

October, 2013

3-5. Fifth Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT 2013)
Submission Deadline: 28 February, 2012
Location: Banff, Alberta, Canada
Plenary Speakers: Martin Bygate, Heidi Byrnes, Patricia Duff
Website: http://www.tblt2013.ualberta.ca/

17-18. Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation (CIDLeS)
Submission Deadline: 31 May, 2013
Location: Minde, Portugal
Plenary Speakers:Ulrike Mosel, Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Fernando Ramallo
Website: http://www.cidles.eu/events/conference-ele-2013/

November, 2013

14-16. Portuguese Linguistics in the United States
Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2013
Location: Athens, Georgia, USA
Plenary Speakers: João Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Ana Maria Carvalho (University of Arizona), Charlotte Galves (UNICAMP), Antonio Carlos de Morães Sartini (Superintendente, Museu da Língua Portuguesa), Scott Schwenter (The Ohio State University)
Website:http://portugueselinguistics.wordpress.com/ 

28-30. Seventh Joint Conference of APACALL and PacCALL (GLoCALL)
Submission Deadline: April 30
Location:The University of Danang, Da Nang, Vietnam
Plenary Speakers:
Greg Kessler, Ohio State University
Glen Stockwell, Waseda University, Japan
Andrew Lian, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand
Nguyen Ngoc Hung, National Foreign Language Process 2020, Vietnam
Website: http://glocall.org/ 

 December, 2013

3-5. 2nd International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing
Submission Deadline: July 16, 2013
Location: Caceres, Spain
Plenary Speakers: TBA
Website: http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2013/ 

July, 2014

15-18, Sociolinguistics Symposium 20

Submissions Open: August 2013
Submission Deadline: end of September 2013
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
Plenary Speakers:
Professor Adrian Blackledge, University of Birmingham
Professor Monica Heller, University of Toronto
Professor Barbara Johnstone, Carnegie Mellon University
Professor Terttu Nevalainen, University of Helsinki
Professor Nigel Thrift, University of Warwick
Website: https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/ss20/

August, 2014

Academic Year 2014-2015, Fulbright Canada Programs
Submissions Deadline:

  • 1 August 2013 (American Scholars)
  • 17 October 2013 (Graduate Students)

Website: http://www.fulbright.ca/

 10-15. World Congress of International Applied Linguists, AILA Research Network (ReN)

Submission Deadline: 31 May 2013
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Website: www.individualdifferencesinsla.com