The Department of Linguistics regularly hosts conferences at which linguistic research is presented, including our own student-run Illinois Language and Linguistics Society. The Department Seminar serves as a forum for presentation of current research by department faculty and graduate students, linguists from other departments, and outside speakers. Several more informal reading and discussion groups are also in operation.
Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS)
ILLS is an annual linguistics conference open to all subfields and aimed primarily at providing graduate and undergraduate students a friendly venue to present their work. ILLS is entirely student-organized and operated by the Linguistics Student Organization at UIUC.
Sociolinguistics Symposium (SoSy)
SoSy is a graduate student-run symposium aimed primarily at providing graduate and advanced undergraduate students a forum to present and discuss their research on topics related to sociolinguistics.
Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT)
MwALT is an organization for graduate students, faculty, and professionals working in the field of language assessment and evaluation.
We are proud to announce that MwALT will be hosted at UIUC in Fall 2023!
We are proud to announce that MwALT will be hosted at UIUC in Fall 2023!
Past Conferences
- The Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
- Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)
- Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics
- Symposium in honor of Braj B. Kachru
- Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALANA-7)
- New Ways of Analyzing Variation 43
- Interdisciplinary Symposium on Bilingualism
- Third Annual Midwest Greek Linguistics Workshop
- Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics
- Midwest Association of Language Testers
- Experimental and Empirical Approaches to Politeness and Impoliteness
- Mid-Continential Phonetics and Phonology Conference
- Speech Production Workshop
- Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS)
- Sociolinguistics Symposium (SoSy)
- 40th Annual Conference on African Linguistics
- 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
- Language and Hip-Hop Culture in a Globalizing World
- North East Linguistic Society 37