36.3655, FYI: Call for abstracts: Data in Historical Linguistics 2026 Seminars

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Subject: 36.3655, FYI: Call for abstracts: Data in Historical Linguistics 2026 Seminars

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Date: 25-Nov-2025
From: Mathilde Bru [mathilde.bru at gmail.com]
Subject: Call for abstracts: Data in Historical Linguistics 2026 Seminars


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https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/join-us/
We are pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for the third
series of the Data in Historical Linguistics seminar series is now
open. These seminars will be run by King’s College London and are
aimed at PhD students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs). The purpose
of this seminar series is to bring together researchers working on
historical linguistics with a quantitative approach, and to discuss
current avenues of research in this topic. Following on from the
success of the first two series, we hope that this third seminar
series will continue to nurture international collaboration and
establish academic ties among researchers working on similar topics in
this field.
Seminars will start in January 2026 and will last one hour.
This year, we welcome abstracts for two possible formats:
Research presentation: a 30-minute talk, followed by 30 minutes of
discussion.
Interactive session: a 45-minute hands-on workshop in which the
speaker presents and demonstrates digital/computational tools, with
opportunities for participants to experiment with the tool themselves,
followed by 15 minutes of discussion.
All seminars will be held remotely via Microsoft Teams on Mondays at
5pm GMT. They will provisionally be held fortnightly, depending on the
number of speakers.
We invite proposals from PhD students and ECRs working on Historical
Linguistics, with an emphasis on quantitative approaches. Abstracts
(maximum 400 words) should describe the dataset (language, size,
object, methodology) and specify whether the analysis was conducted
manually or computationally.
Abstracts and personal information (name, surname, affiliation, email
address) should be sent to either of the two convenors, Andrea Farina
(andrea.farina at kcl.ac.uk) or Mathilde Bru (mathilde.bru at gmail.com).
The deadline for the abstracts is 5th December 2025.
All this information is readily available at our website:
https://datainhistoricallinguistics.wordpress.com/

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics




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