February 6-10, 2023.
For much of the world, LingComm23 will run February 6-9, 2023, in a four-hour block each day beginning at 20:00 UTC. That is 10am in Honolulu, 12pm in Seattle, 3pm in Montreal, 8pm in London, and 9pm in Paris. For those on the leading edge of time zones, the conference will run February 7-10, beginning at 7am in Melbourne and 9am in Auckland. Find your time zone by clicking here.
Each day of the conference will include four 45-minute time slots, one beginning at the top of each hour, with 15-minute breaks between formally scheduled events. Some time slots have multiple sessions running simultaneously. All English sessions will be live-captioned in English by a trained captioner.
This year, LingComm23 will also have an Art Gallery and a Marketplace. Check out the artists and vendors below the schedule. These spaces will be open throughout the conference!
Schedule at-a-Glance
| Monday 6th Feb | Tuesday 7th Feb | Wednesday 8th Feb | Thursday 9th Feb |
| Hour 1 (click the hour to find your time zone) | Hour 1 (click the hour to find your time zone) | Hour 1 (click the hour to find your time zone) | Hour 1 (click the hour to find your time zone) |
| Opening Plenary with Gretchen McCulloch | Poster Session 2 | Memes as LingComm Lilli Righter Marten van der Meulen Emmett Bullions —————— Beyond Anglosphere (in German) Martin Konvička Martina Gerdts Tomas Lehecka | Community scheduled |
| Hour 2 (click the hour to find your time zone) | Hour 2 (click the hour to find your time zone) | Hour 2 (click the hour to find your time zone) | Hour 2 (click the hour to find your time zone) |
| Podcasting 101 Sadie Ryan [Accentricity] JPB Gerald [Unstandardised English] Ryan Paulsen and Amy Hanlon [Lexitecture] —————— LingComm & Art Logan Kearsley Hanna Mechtenberg Aga Paulina Młyńczak | LingComm in Schools Anna Shaver Dan Clayton Lilli Righter —————— LingComm in the Academy Leslie Moore Sharon Unsworth Kirby Conrod | Language in the media Rob Drummond Amanda Cole Tiger Webb —————— Memes (in Portuguese) Luciana Sanchez Mendes Ricardo Joseh Lima Luana De Conto | Community scheduled |
| Hour 3 (click the hour to find your time zone) | Hour 3 (click the hour to find your time zone) | Hour 3 (click the hour to find your time zone) | Hour 3 (click the hour to find your time zone) |
| Vikram Chandra —————— Podcasting 201 X‘unei Lance Twitchell [The Unbroken Tongue] Jess Kruk [Lingua Brütalica] Aven McMaster and Mark Sundaram [Alliterative / Endless Knot] | Advocacy & multilingualism Kevin Martens Wong Elaine Gold Dawn Leslie —————– Beyond Anglosphere (in Portuguese) Helio Oliveira Jorcemara Cardoso Valéria João | Museums Caitlin Miller Ileana Perez Cecile McKee —————– Print Media Julie Sedivy Jess Zafarris Ben Zimmer | Community scheduled |
| Hour 4 (click the hour to find your time zone) | Hour 4 (click the hour to find your time zone) | Hour 4 (click the hour to find your time zone) | Hour 4 (click the hour to find your time zone) |
| Poster Session 1 | TikTok Colette Feehan Danny Hieber Mattie Wechsler —————– Activism through your day-job Charlotte Vaughn Carla Hudson Kam Juan Rosas | Closing plenary with Anne Charity Hudley, Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Christine Mallinson, and Aris Clemons | Community scheduled |
Detailed Program
Click on the links below to convert each day and time to your local time zone.
DAY 1 (begins Monday, February 6, 2023 at 20:00 UTC)
| Hour 1 (20:00 UTC) | Opening Plenary with Gretchen McCulloch (in LARGE HALL; live captioned in English) |
| Hour 2 (21:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: Podcasting 101 (in Place of Articulation; live captioned in English) Sadie Ryan (Accentricity), JPB Gerald (Unstandardised English), Ryan Paulsen and Amy Hanlon (Lexitecture) LingComm & Art (in Vowel Space; live captioned in English) Logan Kearsley, Hanna Mechtenberg, and Aga Paulina Młyńczak |
| Hour 3 (22:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: Meet the author; Vikram Chandra (in Vowel Space; live captioned in English) Podcasting 201 (in Place of Articulation; live captioned in English) X’unei Lance Twitchell (The Unbroken Tongue), Jess Kruk (Lingua Brütalica), Aven McMaster and Mark Sundaram (Alliterative / Endless Knot) |
| Hour 4 (23:00 UTC) | Poster session 1 (in POSTERS) 1. Kristen Syrett, The Five-Minute Linguist Event 3. Jill Vaughan, The Linguistics Roadshow 5. Mark Sundaram, The Endless Knot Videos & Podcast 7. Carolina Rodríguez Alzza and Gesica Pérez Rodríguez, Living Voices 9. Carla Hudson Kam, The ABCs of Language Development: Discover Language with Your Child 11. -WITHDRAWN- 13. -WITHDRAWN- 15. Daniel Puthawala, Summer Linguistics Institute for Young Scholars (SLIYS) 17. -WITHDRAWN- 19. Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, See Your Speech 21. Anna Shaver, LingComm…unity College 23. Logan Kearsley, Theory Neutral 25. Sharon Unsworth, Kletsheads Podcast |
DAY 2 (begins Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 20:00 UTC)
| Hour 1 (20:00 UTC) | Poster session 2 (in POSTERS) 2. Martin Konvička, #LinguisticBirthdays 4. -WITHDRAWN- 6. -WITHDRAWN- 8. -WITHDRAWN- 10. Valéria João, Mente Linguística 12. Sharon Unsworth, Kletskoppen Child Language Festival 14. Charlotte Vaughn, Hannah Mechtenberg, Jessica Orozco Contreras, Marjorie Bates, Deja Bulluck, Liam Graff, Minsol Kim, and Thomas Sims, The Language Science Station @Planet Word 16. Vitor Hochsprung, @vitorlinguistica on instagram 18. Luciana Shanchez Mendes, @gramatimemes 20. Ricardo Joseh Lima, Linguistics’ Students Reactions to ChatGPT for LingComm: an exploratory study and ideas for “whats next?” 22. Luana de Conto, @profe.luana 24. Georgia Zellou, Linguistic Vanguard Special Issue: Public Outreach in Linguistics |
| Hour 2 (21:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: LingComm in Schools (in Vowel Space; live captioned in English) Anna Shaver, Dan Clayton, and Lilli Righter LingComm in the Academy (in Place of Articulation; live captioned in English) Leslie Moore, Sharon Unsworth, and Kirby Conrod |
| Hour 3 (22:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: Advocacy & multilingualism (in Vowel Space; live captioned in English) Kevin Martens Wong, Elaine Gold, and Dawn Leslie Beyond Anglosphere (in Portuguese) (in FISHBOWL) Helio Oliveira, Jorcemara Cardoso, and Valéria João |
| Hour 4 (23:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: TikTok (in FISHBOWL; live captioned in English) Colette Feehan, Danny Hieber, and Mattie Wechsler Activism through your day-job (in Place of Articulation; live captioned in English) Charlotte Vaughn, Carla Hudson Kam, and Juan Rosas |
DAY 3 (begins Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 20:00 UTC)
| Hour 1 (20:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: Memes as LingComm (in FISHBOWL; live captioned in English) Lilli Righter, Marten van der Meulen, and Emmett Bullions Beyond Anglosphere (in German) (in Vowel Space) Martin Konvička, Martina Gerdts, and Tomas Lehecka |
| Hour 2 (21:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: Language in the media (in Place of Articulation; live captioned in English) Rob Drummond, Amanda Cole, and Tiger Webb Memes (in Portuguese) (in FISHBOWL) Luciana Sanchez Mendes, Ricardo Joseh Lima, and Luana De Conto |
| Hour 3 (22:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: Museums (in Vowel Space; live captioned in English) Caitlin Miller, Ileana Perez, and Cecile McKee Print Media (in Place of Articulation; live captioned in English) Julie Sedivy , Jess Zafarris, and Ben Zimmer |
| Hour 4 (23:00 UTC) | Closing plenary with Anne Charity Hudley, Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Christine Mallinson, and Aris Clemons (in LARGE HALL; live captioned in English) |
DAY 4: MEETUP DAY (begins Thursday, Feb 9, 2021 at 20:00 UTC)
The schedule for Day 4 will be created collaboratively before and during the conference.
Book a virtual room for an open meetup on an area of interest, continue an informal discussion about a topic you were enjoying during a previous day, or simply get together with one or two new acquaintances for (virtual) coffee.
All Conference: Both the Art Gallery and Marketplace will be open February 6-10, 2023, however there may not be someone at the booths when you visit.
| Art Gallery | Marketplace |
|---|---|
| Hannah Mechtenberg | Cambridge University Press |
| Erdem Avsar | Cascadilla Press |
| Chirikure Chirikure | Endangered Language Alliance |
| Emily Remirez | Accentricity |
| Joske Piepers | Multilingual Matters |
| Chantelle Trainoir-Matties | OSU Press (Language Files) |
| Santiago Savi | Vikram Chandra Bookshop |
| Aga Paulina Młyńczak | Gretchen McCulloch |
| Pia K Wic |
List of all LingComm23 poster presentations
1. Kristen Syrett, The Five-Minute Linguist Event
2. Martin Konvička, #LinguisticBirthdays
3. Jill Vaughan, The Linguistics Roadshow
4. –WITHDRAWN–
5. Mark Sundaram, The Endless Knot Videos & Podcast
6. –WITHDRAWN–
7. Carolina Rodríguez Alzza and Gesica Pérez Rodríguez, Living Voices
8. –WITHDRAWN–
9. Carla Hudson Kam, The ABCs of Language Development: Discover Language with Your Child
10. Valéria João, Mente Linguística
11. –WITHDRAWN–
12. Sharon Unsworth, Kletskoppen Child Language Festival
13. –WITHDRAWN–
14. Charlotte Vaughn, Hannah Mechtenberg, Jessica Orozco Contreras, Marjorie Bates, Deja Bulluck, Liam Graff, Minsol Kim, and Thomas Sims, The Language Science Station @Planet Word
15. Daniel Puthawala, Summer Linguistics Institute for Young Scholars (SLIYS)
16. Vitor Hochsprung, @vitorlinguistica on instagram
17. –WITHDRAWN–
18. Luciana Shanchez Mendes, @gramatimemes
19. Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, See Your Speech
20. Ricardo Joseh Lima, Linguistics’ Students Reactions to ChatGPT for LingComm: an exploratory study and ideas for “whats next?”
21. Anna Shaver, LingComm…unity College
22. Luana de Conto, @profe.luana
23. Logan Kearsley, Theory Neutral
24. Georgia Zellou, Linguistic Vanguard Special Issue: Public Outreach in Linguistics
25. Sharon Unsworth, Kletsheads Podcast
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