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/

CLS 52: April 21-23, 2016.
Location: UChicago.

Invited Speakers:
Edith Aldridge – University of Washington
Hans Boas – The University of Texas at Austin
Caroline Heycock – The University of Edinburgh
Andrew Nevins – University College London
Henriette de Swart – Universiteit Utrecht
Sarah Thomason – University of Michigan
Ming Xiang – The University of Chicago

Program: http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/CLS52Program.pdf
Conference website: http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/

CLS 51: April 23-25, 2015.
Location: Chicago

Invited Speakers:
Diane Brentari
Michael Franke
Heidi Harley
Lori Holt
Bill Idsardi
Bernard Perley
Anna Szabolcsi

Conference website: http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/index.html

CLS 50: Apr. 10, 2014 – Apr. 13, 2014.
Venue: University of Chicago.

Invited Speakers:
Bruce P. Hayes (University of California, Los Angeles)
Daniel Lassiter (Stanford University)
Gregory M. Kobele (University of Chicago)
Jessica Coon (McGill University)
Jonathan David Bobaljik (University of Connecticut)
Katalin É. Kiss (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Pauline Jacobson (Brown University)

Program: http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/cls/files/2014/03/cls50schedule.pdf

Conference Website: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/

CLS 2013: April 18-20, 2013
Location: Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago.
Program: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/cls49schedule.pdf

Invited Speakers:

Idan Landau, Ben Gurion University
Karlos Arregi, University of Chicago
Sharon Rose, University of California, San Diego
Judith Tonhauser, Ohio State University
Roumyana Pancheva, University of Southern California
Daniel Harbour, Queen Mary University of London
Lisa Selkirk, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Conference website: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls