Dictionary Society of North America 25th Biennial Conference
DSNA25
Date: 29-May-2025 – 31-May-2025
Location: Buffalo NY, USA
Contact Person: Dictionary Society of North America
Meeting Email: dsnaadmin@gmail.com
Web Site: https://dictionarysociety.com/dsna-25-in-buffalo-new-york/
Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2025
Meeting Description:
The 25th Biennial Dictionary Society of North America Conference will be held at the Buffalo State University, Thursday 29 May to Saturday 31 May 2025. We’ll be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Society!
The conference will include moderated panels on lexicographical topics, plenary presentations, receptions, and a banquet featuring the address of DSNA President Kory Stamper, author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries.
Call for Papers:
Presentations on any aspect of dictionaries, lexicography, and lexicology, historical or contemporary, are welcome. Those focused on lexicography and the law, artificial intelligence and lexicography, and Indigenous lexicography in the US and Canada are particularly encouraged.
All presenters of conference papers must be members of the DSNA, but you need not be a member to submit an abstract. To join or renew membership, visit https://dictionarysociety.com/join/.
The program will begin the Thursday, May 29, and will run through Saturday afternoon, May 31, 2025.
Please submit abstracts for individual papers, panels, roundtables, and half- or full-day workshops via Google Forms, Monday 25 November 2024 to Wednesday 15 January 2025: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf-_hOIaPC21AU7Bek6Ie6jjirzD1lRhmNK0J-agrAjaXFU4w/viewform
Papers/presentations: we invite abstracts of approximately 250 words for presentations of 15 minutes.
Panels: We invite panel or workshop proposals in addition to papers. Proposals should include a panel abstract, list of presenters, and presentation abstracts. Proposals for roundtable discussions and extended half- or full-day workshops are also welcome. Please indicate this in the online form.
Information about the sponsor: The Dictionary Society of North America promotes the development, practice, and study of lexicography, and the use, compilation, curation, marketing, maintenance, and scholarly examination of dictionaries and related reference works. It provides forums for discussion and dissemination of information on all these topics, including a peer-reviewed journal, a newsletter, a blog, and biennial meetings. The DSNA was formed in 1975 to bring together people interested in dictionary making, study, collection, and use. Our members include people working on dictionaries, academics who engage in research and writing about dictionaries, dictionary collectors, librarians, booksellers, translators, linguists, publishers, writers, collectors, journalists, and people with an avocational interest in dictionaries. The only requirement for membership is an expression of interest in language, in words, dictionaries and lexicography, or any combination of these.