36.3344, Calls: 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Belgium)

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Subject: 36.3344, Calls: 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Belgium)

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Date: 31-Oct-2025
From: Elisabeth Kerr [bantu11 at ugent.be]
Subject: 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages


Full Title: 11th International Conference on Bantu Languages
Short Title: Bantu11

Date: 18-Aug-2026 - 21-Aug-2026
Location: Ghent, Belgium
Web Site: https://www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Bantoid; Narrow Bantu; Niger-Congo

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2025

Call for Papers:
Please see the conference website to read this call in Kiswahili,
Lingála, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
The call for papers for the 11th International Conference on Bantu
Languages (Bantu11) at Ghent University (August 18-21, 2026) is now
open. The conference will include a general session which welcomes
contributions on any aspect of the Bantu languages, alongside eleven
workshops on specific topics (see the workshop descriptions on the
conference website: https://www.bantugent.ugent.be/bantu11/#anchor3).
 - WS01 Unravelling the knots of not: Exploring lesser-known negative
patterns in Bantu
 - WS02 Swahili, Sabaki, and Beyond:Integrating New Data and
Perspectives on the East African Coast
 - WS03 Clause Chaining in Bantu languages: Narrative verb sequences
with and without-morphological marking
 - WS04 Renewing Bantu Lexical Reconstruction
 - WS05 Interdisciplinary perspectives on Bantu language history
 - WS06 The effects of maximality constraints on verb structure
 - WS07 Ethnolinguistics, Ethnobiology and Biodiversity / WS07
Ethnolinguistique, ethnobiologie et biodiversité
 - WS08 Phonetic and phonological documentation: the role of Bantu in
establishing new standards for the discipline
 - WS09 Irregular sound change in Bantu
 - WS10 Advances and developments in cross-Bantu typology: Empirical,
comparative and methodological approaches
 - WS11 Nominal Classification in Bantu or the Semantax of the Noun /
WS11 Classification nominale en bantou ou la semantaxe du nom
Further practical information about the conference can be found on the
conference website. All questions can be sent to Bantu11 at UGent.be.
Important dates ahead:
December 1, 2025: deadline for abstract submission
January 15, 2026: notifications of acceptance
February 15, 2026: opening of registration (early bird until April 1)
June 15, 2026: Final registration date
August 18-21, 2026: conference dates
Submission instructions:
The deadline for abstracts is December 1st, 2025 (23:59 UTC/GMT+2).
Abstracts are limited to 2 submissions per author, of which only 1 may
be single-authored. Abstracts should be a maximum of 1 page of text
(including figures/tables/linguistic examples) with up to 1 additional
page for references, in 11pt Charis SIL or 12pt Times New Roman font,
single spaced, with standard A4 margins (2.54cm). Talks may be given
in-person or online. There will be a reduced conference fee for
students (including PhD students) and participants from lower-income
countries.
Abstracts can only be submitted through the EasyAbs platform:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/Bantu11/. If you do not
already have an EasyAbs account, first make a free account on EasyAbs,
and then submit your abstract to the Bantu 11 conference, following
the formatting guidelines above. Please ensure that the abstract file
(including the filename) is anonymous and in .pdf format. Please add
the code for the relevant workshop (e.g. ‘WS01’) or use ‘GS’ to
indicate a submission to the general session, and add 3-5 keywords
that describe your submission (e.g. ‘phonology’, ‘sociolinguistics’,
‘Southern Bantu’). If you are submitting a single-authored paper,
please indicate whether you expect to be present in Ghent. If you are
submitting a co-authored paper, please indicate how many authors
expect to be present in Ghent.
If you have any issues with the EasyAbs platform, try refreshing the
page, check the EasyAbs website
(https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/about/), or contact the Bantu11
organizing committee at Bantu11 at UGent.be.



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