Recently we have been informed that invited speakers of certain conferences have been targeted by fraudulent emails from “travel services” that asked them to pay (via an online link) for a hotel in the city that the conference is hosted in for the duration of the conference. The scammers took enough time to pick a plausible hotel close to the conference site as the accommodation they were supposed to pay for.

Invited speakers and other conference attendants (who might also receive these kind of emails once the program is made public), please be advised that these kind of things do happen and stay vigilant.

The first post of Ling Alert was created on Oct. 9, 2012, when I was in my second year of grad school and wanted to keep track of conferences to submit to.

Exactly 520 posts later, Ling Alert turns 10.

By WordPress’ count, 176,062 visitors have viewed the website 573,514 times over the past 10 years. Now it has 205 WordPress followers and 427 email followers. Hope you find it useful and thanks for your support!

Many conferences and workshops have been affected by the Covid-19 situation. I have updated the information announced so far and will try to keep the info up to date as the situation develops.

I can only keep up with the updates for conferences already included on Lingalert, otherwise it would become too time consuming. Apologies in advance.

You can check the updated info of the affected conferences under the tag “Covid-19“. 

I’d appreciate it if organisers (of the conferences/workshops already included on Lingalert) get in touch with their latest updates at lingalert@gmail.com.

Stay safe and strong.

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