37.1051, Confs: 8th International Conference on English Language and Anglophone Literatures Today (Serbia)

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Subject: 37.1051, Confs: 8th International Conference on English Language and Anglophone Literatures Today (Serbia)

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Date: 13-Mar-2026
From: Sabina Halupka-Rešetar [halupka.resetar at ff.uns.ac.rs]
Subject: 8th International Conference on English Language and Anglophone Literatures Today


8th International Conference on English Language and Anglophone
Literatures Today
Short Title: ELALT8
Theme: Artificial Intelligence and English Studies (ArIES)

Date: 06-Nov-2026 - 07-Nov-2026
Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
Contact: ELALT8 team
Contact Email: elaltconference at gmail.com
Meeting URL:
https://sites.google.com/ff.uns.ac.rs/elalt8/home?authuser=0

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Ling & Literature
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Language Family(ies): Germanic

Submission Deadline: 30-Jun-2026

This conference will explore the rapidly evolving intersections
between AI and language-based disciplines, bringing together
perspectives from linguistics, literary and cultural studies, language
education, and translation and interpreting. As AI systems
increasingly shape how language is analyzed, produced, taught, and
mediated, they invite both new methodological possibilities and
critical reflection. The conference aims to examine how AI can model
linguistic structure, meaning, variation, learning, and processing,
while also questioning what such models reveal—or obscure—about human
linguistic competence and cognition. Beyond linguistics, the
conference addresses AI’s growing role in literary production,
interpretation, pedagogy, and canon formation, highlighting issues of
creativity, authorship, bias, cultural representation, and power in a
global digital landscape. Particular attention is given to educational
contexts, including foreign language teaching and translator and
interpreter training, where AI tools are transforming classroom
practices, professional competencies, and assessment methods. Across
all areas, the conference foregrounds ethical responsibility, critical
literacy, and informed pedagogical design, emphasizing the need to
engage with AI not as a neutral technology but as a socially embedded
system. By fostering dialogue across disciplines, the conference seeks
to deepen our understanding of how AI reshapes language-related
research, education, and cultural production, and to chart
responsible, inclusive paths forward.
Possible Topics:
AI and Linguistic Research:
- Linguistic structure and representation with AI (using AI to model
syntax, morphology, phonology, and the lexicon, including hierarchical
structure, constraints, and cross-linguistic generalizations;
AI-informed analyses of grammatical competence and structural
regularities)
- Meaning, pragmatics, and discourse in AI systems (the use of AI
models to handle semantic composition, reference, anaphora, modality,
presupposition, implicature, and context-dependent interpretation; AI
approaches to discourse-level phenomena such as coherence, topic–focus
structure, salience, and discourse relations)
- Language variation and multilingualism (applying AI to study
dialectal, register, sociolinguistic, and typological diversity; AI
models for multilingual and low-resource languages)
- Language learning and processing with AI (using AI to simulate
acquisition, sentence processing, incremental interpretation,
prediction, and learning from limited or noisy input; relevance of AI-
based models for psycholinguistic and usage-based theories of
language)
AI and the study of literature and culture:
- AI-assisted creative writing: collaborative authorship and the
future of literary production (creative possibilities and limitations
of AI as a writing partner, including questions of originality,
authorship, and the preservation of unique literary voices)
- Teaching literature with AI: pedagogical innovations and critical
literacy in the digital age (the transformative impact of AI on
literature education: frameworks that integrate guided AI use through
active learning, combining generative AI with authoritative scholarly
editions and critical thinking exercises, using AI ethically to
enhance rather than replace close reading and interpretation)
- AI, bias, and representation in literature: postcolonial and
cultural perspectives on digital colonization (how AI technologies
from developed nations extend cultural and epistemic influence over
less-developed regions, replicating historical colonial power
dynamics)
- AI and canon formation: how algorithms shape literary value and
cultural memory (how large language models and AI systems both reflect
and potentially reshape the literary canon: algorithmic biases may
perpetuate existing inequalities, or AI could disrupt
Western-dominated canons by enabling global literature access through
translation and analysis)
- Multimodal narratives and transmedia storytelling: AI’s role in
literary adaptation (how AI enables new forms of transmedia
storytelling—narratives distributed across multiple platforms (books,
films, apps, social media) that create immersive, participatory
experiences)
AI in ELT: Training Teachers and Students for the Responsible Use of
AI:
- AI literacy for foreign language teachers at all levels (the
limitations, biases, and pedagogical implications of using AI tools in
FLT )
- Integrating AI tools into FLT practice (practical strategies for
using AI for feedback, assessment, lesson planning, materials design,
curriculum design and personalized learning)
- Exploring plagiarism, authorship, data privacy, bias, and
transparency in the development of students’ academic skills
- Helping learners develop critical thinking, metalinguistic
awareness, and ethical decision-making when working with AI for
writing, speaking, and translation
- AI in Language-Based Study Programmes: Translator and Interpreter
Education
- Pedagogical integration of AI in translator and interpreter
education
- Pedagogical roles of AI in the translation classroom (support tool,
co-translator, tutor, evaluator)
- Teaching practices involving AI and their impact on classroom roles
(students, teachers, tools)
The role of AI in the development of translation sub-competences
(technological, instrumental, strategic, linguistic) within the EMT
framework:
- AI in interpreter training, including the use of speech
technologies, automatic transcription, and AI-supported interpreting
practice
- The influence of AI on students’ problem-solving and decision-making
processes
- Assessment and evaluation of AI-assisted translation tasks
Abstract and Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts for 20-minute paper presentations should be submitted via
email to elaltconference at gmail.com.
Abstracts must not exceed 500 words + references. For detailed
instructions see conference URL.
Abstracts must be written in English.
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 30 June 2026
Deadline for the notification of acceptance: 31 July 2026
Conference fee: in-person presentations 30 EUR, online presentations
15 EUR



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