2nd Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender Conference
Short Title: LILG2

Date: 12-Aug-2025 – 13-Aug-2025
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
Contact Person: Dominic Schmitz
Meeting Email: dominic.schmitz@uni-duesseldorf.de
Web Site: http://lilg.div-ling.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Forensic Linguistics; Historical Linguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2025

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to announce the second edition of LILG – Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender. It is to be held at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany, 12 – 13 August 2025. While we are planning a hybrid conference to accommodate the needs and wishes of all participants, we encourage speakers to partake in person.

The conference is a collaboration of members of Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and the Association for Diversity in Linguistics.

The main purpose of LILG is to gather different linguistic perspectives of the intersection and interplay of current research on language and gender. We invite work on gender biases, gender-fair language, pronouns, and other gender-related topics (including sexuality) from all areas of linguistic research.

Call for Papers:

Authors of accepted submissions will be offered a chance to revise their abstracts. Final versions of abstracts will be published on this website as online conference materials.

Abstracts should be in English and should not exceed 1 page in A4 in a standard font with size 11pt or 12pt, 2 cm top and bottom margins, and 2.5 cm left and right margins, 1.15 line spacing. References, examples, tables, and figures can optionally be put onto a second page.

Abstracts should be submitted anonymized via https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/LILG2/. Please indicate in the comments text field whether you prefer an oral presentation or poster presentation, or whether either is fine.

We provide a template for LaTeX and Microsoft Word on the conference website.