CLS 61: 2025-05-09 to 2025-05-11
Location: the University of Chicago

Invited speakers:

• Ashwini Deo (The University of Texas at Austin)
• Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University)
• Anne Harper Charity Hudley (Stanford University)
• Itamar Francez (The University of Chicago)
• Michael Kenstowicz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Norvin Richards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Submission deadline: 2025-01-26
Submission page: https://auth.oxfordabstracts.com/?redirect=/stages/77083/submitter
Conference website: https://www.chicagolinguisticsociety.com

CLS 60: 2024-04-26 to 2024-04-28
Location: University of Chicago

Invited speakers:

• Artemis Alexiadou (ZAS Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin)
• Patrice Beddor (University of Michigan)
• David Embick (University of Pennsylvania)
• Donka Farkas (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Kai von Fintel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago)

Submission deadline: 2024-01-07
Submission page: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/6919/submitter
Conference website: http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/

CLS 59: Apr. 28 – 30, 2023.
Location: Chicago.

Invited speakers:

• Richard Compton (Université du Québec à Montréal)
• Troy Messick (Rutgers University)
• Line Mikkelsen (University of California, Berkeley)
• Prerna Nadathur (The Ohio State University)
• Natalie Weber (Yale University)
  Chris Kennedy (University of Chicago)

Special topics:

• Ancient languages
• Arctic languages
• Syntax-prosody interface

Submission deadline: January 15, 2023 at 23:59
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cls59
Conference website: http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/

CLS 58: Apr. 22-24, 2022.
Location: Chicago.

Invited speakers:

• Lal Zimman (University of California Santa Barbara)
• Monica Do (University of Chicago)
• Roger Levy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Kathryn Davidson (Harvard University)
• James Kirby (University of Edinburgh)
• Emily Gasser (Swarthmore College)

Special topics:

• Sociophonetics
• Sign Languages
• Language and Music
• Language Production
• Cognitive Modeling
• Language Documentation, Variation and Change

Submission deadline: Jan. 9, 2022.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cls58
Conference website: http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/

CLS 57: May 6-8, 2021.
Location: Online.

Invited speakers:

• Andrea Berez-Kroeker (she/her)
• Natalia Bermúdez (she/her/ella/la)
• Kirby Conrod (they/them)
• Vadim Kimmelman (he/him)
• Sandhya Sundaresan (she/her)
• Kelly E. Wright (she/her)

Special Sessions:

• Languages of South Asia
• Sign Linguistics
• Language Documentation and Revitalization
• Language and Race
• Phi-features
• Grammaticalization
• Sociosyntax

Extended submission deadline: Jan. 15, 2021.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cls57
Conference website: http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/

CLS 55: May 16-18, 2019.
Location: the University of Chicago

Invited speakers:
Michael Arbib (University of Southern California)
Elabbas Benmamoun (Duke University)
Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University)
Yaroslav Gorbachov (The University of Chicago)
Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa)
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (Cambridge University)

Special topcis:
Brain and language
Endangered languages
Language acquisition 
Sign language linguistics
Phylogenetic emergence of human languages
Quantification

Extended submission deadline: Jan. 23, 2019.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cls55
Conference website: http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/

CLS 54: Apr. 26-28, 2018.
Location: Chicago.

Invited speakers:
Klaus Abels
Susi Wurmbrand
Marcin Morzycki
Richard Larson
Hannah Rohde
Valentine Hacquard

Extended submission deadline: Jan. 15, 2018.
Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cls54
Conference website: http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/

CLS 53: May 24 – 27, 2017.
Location: the University of Chicago.

Invited speakers:
Lucas Champollion (NYU)
Itamar Francez (UChicago)
Thomas Graf (SUNY Stony Brook)
Sun-Ah Jun (UCLA)
Audrey Li (USC)
Josep Quer (Pompeu Fabra University)

Conference website: http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/