THE GLOCAL CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY 2026

AI
ANTHROPOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE

WELCOME

The (SCOPUS / WoS / ISI) GLOCAL 2026, the GLOCAL Worldwide Conference on Linguistic SocioCultural Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, and Language and Society, in October 2026, at Cambridge University and online, as a hybrid event, symbolizes a significant leap forward, and a marked shift in direction, for Linguistic SocioCultural Anthropology, from all GLOCAL conferences over the past two decades. This shift is mediated by the problematizing of perspectives and praxis in a plurality of fields central to and peripheral to Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology, the social and cultural psychologies of language.

Conceptualized in 1998, the GLOCAL conferences respond to concerns by scholars within Linguistics, Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Sociology, Cultural Studies, centrally Linguistic Anthropology, and beyond, to bridge the gap between a focus on groundbreaking scholarship on these fields and to scaffold access to this scholarship by noteworthy scholars globally. This gap is mostly due to issues of funding, expertise, and limited access and exposure to strong institutions and their academics.

The (SCOPUS / WoS / ISI) GLOCAL 2026, themed AI, Anthropological Intelligence, will build on these efforts to reduce such hegemony and the neoliberal gap, to connect  universities and their academics across the globe, with one another and with industry and society. Here, the GLOCAL 2026, as with all other past GLOCAL conferences, will opportune academics to exchange knowledge, expertise, and valuable Linguistic, Anthropological, and Technological data, through the interpersonal and inter-institutional networks that the GLOCAL and its conferences have built thus far. To ground these efforts, the GLOCAL 2026, with its global network of 4,500 universities at the centre, will continue to develop its network of institutions globally, to support these post-neoliberal global efforts.

While all papers submitted to and accepted for the conference proceedings will be stringently reviewed and then indexed by SCOPUS and Clarivate, and published in high impact publications, in its journals, and elsewhere, the theme for the GLOCAL 2026 is AI, Anthropological Intelligence, a theme pertinent to all global regions and countries vis-a-vis their global analogues and the ubuquitous technological revolution.

We thus welcome you to the GLOCAL 2026, the Annual Global Conference on Linguistic SocioCultural Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, and Language and Society, at Cambridge University, and online, as a hybrid event, and to the GLOCAL as a whole.

GLOCAL Central Committee

Secretary

Asmah Haji Omar (University of Malaysia, Malaysia)

Central Steering Committee

Alice Rudge (University of London, U.K.)
Anna Luisa Daigneault (Living Tongues Institute, U.S.A.)
Bert Vaux (Cambridge University, England)
David Parkin (Oxford University, U.K.)
Geoffrey Benjamin (Nanyang T. University, Singapore)
Gregory Anderson (Living Tongues Institute, U.S.A.)
Janet Watson (University of Leeds, U.K.)
Judith Pine (Western Washington University, U.S.A.)
Katia Pizzi (University of London, U.K.)
Mark Aldenderfer (University of California, Merced, U.S.A.)
Miguel Pérez-Milans (University College London, U.K.)
Richard Baxstrom (University of Edinburgh, U.K.)
Riitta Valijarvi (University College London, U.K.)
Sylvia Jaworska (University of Reading, U.K.)
Trevor H J Marchand (University of London, U.K.)
Vijay Bhatia (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
William A. Foley (Columbia University, U.S.A.)
Pavlos Kavouras (EKPA, Greece)

Communications

Nhan Huynh, Head of Communications
Anastasia Tsantes (Communications Assistant)
Samantha Emery (Communications Assistant)
Brett Green (Legal Counsel U.S.A.)
Colin Cavendish-Jones (Legal Counsel U.K.)

DESCRIPTION

The (SCOPUS / WoS / ISI) GLOCAL Conference on Linguistic Socio-Cultural Anthropology 2026, themed
AI, Anthropological Intelligence, will bring together linguistic and sociocultural anthropologists, and scholars and experts of technology, social planning, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, critical theorists, as well as governments, and industry forerunners, to deliberate on the tensions between anthropological and artificial intelligence, and solutions that pervade current humanity.

The (SCOPUS / WoS / ISI) GLOCAL Conference on Linguistic Socio-Cultural Anthropology 2026, 
AI, Anthropological Intelligence, is timely.

The global expansion of soft and hard technologies, centrally Artificial Intelligence, has problematized the ontological realities of humanity, the increasing socialization of humanity into these technologies, the mechanized subjugations of humanity to generative automation, and the capacity of the human beyond that of generative artificial intelligence, within and beyond the realm of communication.

This unprecedented technological eruption and engulfment of humanity have forced attention to how we as humans must negotiate our discursive and interactive capacities with and through these technologies. Reactions have been complex: Fear, uncertainty and trepidation, attempts to align with yet capitalize on new technologies, concern with current and future securities, deliberation on the survival of humanity, a retraining of humanity to compete with these technologies and to hence ameliorate fears of redundancy of the human, a rethinking of human evolution and its ontology vis-à-vis intelligent technologies, and efforts to ensure that the capacities of the human continue to exceed those of artificial intelligence. However, a central response has been a patent shift in processes of human communication with and through these intelligent technologies.

At the core of these discursive linkages between the human and technology is the anthropological question of how language and the social and cultural psychologies of these technologies overlap, that is, how shall the human subject now communicatively position themselves in relation to these technologies. The pathways to address this anthropological question include the following.

  • Understanding the interactions and intersubjectivities of the human with and through emerging technologies
  • Describing the purposes and legitimacies of interaction between the human and generative technologies
  • Defining the purpose of technologies as devices that mediate human interaction and functional human existence
  • Envisaging new possibilities through which technologies such as ChatGPT can mediate human interaction and purpose, not least of which are language, linguistics, communication, and the maintenance of semiotics that pervade human processes
  • Negotiating the semiotics of these new technologies in (post)structural relation to the human
  • Investigating the technologically mediated potentialities of the interactions of humans, as sentient-sapient beings

The above pathways crucially respond to the linguistic anthropological question of how humanity will communicate with and amongst these new technologies. Until the present time, this question has been inadequately addressed. Yet, the semiotics of interaction, communication, and mediation with relevance to technology are now universal, evidencing that anthropological attention to the discursive interactions of the human with and amongst the intelligent machine will assist to ground resolutions to that which is the most significant issue of our modern history, the subjugation of the human to, or the replacement of the human by, the intelligent machine.

The (SCOPUS / WoS / ISI) GLOCAL Conference on Linguistic Socio-Cultural Anthropology 2026, themed

AI, Anthropological Intelligence, 

will bring together linguistic and sociocultural anthropologists, and scholars and experts of technology, social planning, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, critical theorists, as well as governments, industry forerunners, and beyond, to deliberate on the tensions between artificial and anthropological intelligence, and to discuss pathways to discover solutions that ramify throughout human societies globally.

The GLOCAL 2026 conference thus has several purposes: To contribute to and alter thinking, policy, and the implementation of policy, with regards to human communication with and through intelligent technologies; to draw on work in the applied, linguistic, and cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics (and so forth) of off- and online interaction, in order to develop work that repositions the potency and agencies of anthropological intelligences (the multiple intelligences of the human). These intelligences themselves mediate developments and agencies in technology; to draw on anthropological scholarship to bring together scholars and global experts who will convene to rethink human communication and interaction with and through intelligent technologies; to invite discussions on the ways in which anthropological intelligences, as an affordance grounded in the creation and appropriation of semiotic practices and structures, have the capacity to evolve beyond limitations imposed by technology, following grounding work by those such as Gregory Bateson; to bring together scholars the world over to deliberate on classical linguistic sociocultural anthropology, sociolinguistics, and language and society, to rethink the appropriation of such classical linguistic anthropology (ideology, semiotics, language documentation, and so forth) in an era of pervasive intelligent technologies.

The (SCOPUS / WoS / ISI) GLOCAL Conference on Linguistic Socio-Cultural Anthropology 2026, while foregrounding its central theme  AI, Anthropological Intelligence also centrally invites papers, organized colloquia, posters, workshops. roundtables, and talks on all facets of Linguistic Socio-Cultural Anthropology. Over twenty years, the GLOCAL has expanded attention to these classical frameworks, all of which contribute to the understandings of Linguistic SocioCultural Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Language and Society, and other pertinent fields. For a full list of these strands, see the link https://theglocal2026.link/strands/.

The Steering Committee advises contributors to develop their abstracts, general papers, colloquia, posters, and other contributions through one of the following strands. However, contributors may wish to categorize their contributions as a hybrid of these strands, as a hybrid of one of these strands and other sub fields, or by developing innovative strands that proceed in novel directions. The Steering Committee welcomes such hybridity and innovation.

  • Anthropological Intelligence
  • Anthropological Linguistics
  • Applied Sociolinguistics
  • Buddhist Studies and Discourses
  • Cognitive Anthropology and Language
  • Critical Linguistic Anthropology
  • Discourses of Religion and Spirituality
  • Ethnographic Language Work
  • Ethnography of Communication
  • Ethnomusicology
  • General Sociolinguistics
  • Islamic Studies and Discourses
  • Language, Community, Ethnicity
  • Language Contact and Change
  • Language, Dialect, Sociolect, Genre
  • Language Documentation
  • Language, Gender, Sexuality
  • Language Ideologies
  • Language and Migration
  • Discourse in Political Apparatus
  • Language and Culture as Tangible and Intangible Heritage
  • Language, Anthropology, and Pedagogy
  • Language: Material and Immaterial
  • Language Minorities and Majorities
  • Language Revitalization
  • Language in Real and Virtual Spaces
  • Language Socialization
  • Language and Spatiotemporal Frames
  • Multifunctionality
  • Narrative and Metanarrative
  • Nonverbal Semiotics
  • Pedagogical Anthropology
  • Poetics
  • Performativity
  • Post-Structuralism and Language
  • Semiotics and Semiology
  • Shamanism and Language
  • Social Psychology of Language
  • Text, Context, Entextualization
  • Lyrical and Non-Lyrical Ethnomusicology
  • Medical Discourse and Anthropology
  • The Chronotope in Language
  • The Discourse of New Technologies

CHRONOTOPE

2026 Call for Abstracts
Opens: September 15, 2025
Closes: March 15, 2026
 
Notification of Acceptance
Within one month of submission. For specific or acceptance letters, early submissions are advised.
 
Registration
Early Bird: May 1, 2026 to June 31, 2026
Regular: July 1, 2026 to August 15, 2026
Register no later than August 15, 2026, by 23:59 UTC, to guarantee a place in the program, after which registration will remain open, but organizers cannot guarantee placement.
Late Bird: August 16, 2026 to September 5, 2026
 
Conference Dates
Day 1: Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Day 2: Thursday, November 19, 2026
Day 3: Friday, November 20, 2026
 
Anthropological Excursion
Day 4: Saturday, November 21, 2026 – Full day optional Anthropological Excursion (separate cost)
 

Cambridge University

The GLOCAL 2026 Conference will be hybrid, online and at Cambridge University, and at times clusters of scholars will gather in universities at various locations globally in order to interact in real spaces. While all global networks will be invited to physically attend the GLOCAL 2026 at the University of Cambridge as a physical component to the conference, these places will be limited, will incur additional costs, and will be contingent on several factors. The GLOCAL 2026 conference attendance at the University of Cambridge will be of a select group of scholars who will also engage in roundtable discussions, but who will appear in all respective online meetings. The Cambridge physical component will be core to the global interactivity of the conference.

Global University Locations

The GLOCAL 2026 will also allow for limited participation at various locations globally, at which, participants may participate in physical collaborative environments. As with attendance at Cambridge University, attendance at each of the physical locations will incur an additional cost.

Virtual Participation

The majority of global participants will logically attend the GLOCAL 2026 virtually. Owing to geographical factors and time zones, participants may optimize their attendance by virtually participating at those times that best suit their schedules and lifeworlds.

Anthro Excursion

  • Avebury Ston Circle
  • Stonhenge
  • Silbury Hill
  • West Kennet Long Barrow
  • Colchester Castle

PROGRAM

  • Presentations: General, Colloquia, Posters
  • Workshops: Methodology, Publishing
  • Talks: Keynotes, Publisher, Industry
  • Excursions and Tours
    • Stonehenge and its Anthropology
    • Anthropological Virtual Tours
  • Publications:
    • Proceedings (SCOPUS / Wos),
    • Journals Issues
    • Special Issue Publications in High Impact Journals
  • Performances: Cultural Virtual Performances
  • Displays: Physical and Virtual
    • Publishers
    • Organizations
    • Universities
  • GLOCAL Special Sessions
    • Policy Development Sessions
    • News and Media Sessions
    • Debate Sessions
  • Anthro Excursion (Full Day)
    • Avebury Ston Circle
    • Stonhenge
    • Silbury Hill
    • West Kennet Long Barrow
    • Colchester Castle
 

SPONSORS

  • Multilingual Matters
  • Oxford University Press
  • Springer Nature
  • Routledge

SUBMISSION

Submit an abstract or proposal in the following categories.

GENERAL PAPER PRESENTATIONS
COLLOOQUIA THEMED GROUPS
REESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATIONS
METHODOLOGY WORKSHOPS
ANALYSIS WORKSHOPS
KEYNOTE TALK PRESENTATIONS
PLENARY TALK PRESENTATIONS
ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXHIBITIONS
CULTURAL PERFORMANCES
ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXHIBITIONS
PHYSICAL BANNERS AND DISPLAYS
VIRTUAL DISPLAYS / COMMUNICATION
VIRTUAL DISPLAYS / COMMUNICATION
PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
CULTURAL NARRATIVE TELLING
Submission

REGISTRATION

Assurance

The Steering Committee seeks to ensure participation of all attenees, urging early registration as the event willl have a limited capacity.

Deadline

5 September 2026, following which, registration will not guarantee a place in the conference.

Concession

The registrant’s institution must currently or potentially affliate with the GLOCAL (to organize affiliation contact glocal@soas.ac.uk).

Coverage

Physial attendance fees cover full participation, all documentation, food and refreshments, networking opportunities, training and workshops, reception/gala dinner, and designated accommodation.

Confirmation

Registrations are confirmed by email,and should be received prior to further arrangements such as travel. Payment must be made upon confirmation and prior to the GLOCAL 2026 on the conference portal. Participants assume full responsibility for all bank charges and associated exchange rates.

In Person Physical attendance
Registrattion Type
Early Bird
Middle Bird
Late Bird
GLOCAL Non Affiliate (Institutional) Standard
383 E
425 E
468 E
GLOCAL Affiliate (Institutional) Standard
383 E
425 E
468 E
Student + GLOCAL non-Affiliate (Institutional)
383 E
425 E
468 E
Student + GLOCAL Affiliate (Institutional)
383 E
425 E
468 E
Virtual attendance
Registrattion Type
Early Bird
Middle Bird
Late Bird
GLOCAL Non Affiliate (Institutional) Standard
383 E
425 E
468 E
GLOCAL Affiliate (Institutional) Standard
383 E
425 E
468 E
Student + GLOCAL non-Affiliate (Institutional)
383 E
425 E
468 E
Student + GLOCAL Affiliate (Institutional)
383 E
425 E
468 E

THE

GLOCAL

CONFERENCE

ON

LINGUISTIC

ANTHROPOLOGY

2026

AI,

ANTHROPOLOGICAL

INTELLIGENCE

WELCOME

The (SCOPUS / WoS / ISI) GLOCAL 2026, the GLOCAL Worldwide Conference on Linguistic SocioCultural Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, and Language and Society, in October 2026, at Cambridge University and online, as a hybrid event, symbolizes a significant leap forward, and a marked shift in direction, for Linguistic SocioCultural Anthropology, from all GLOCAL conferences over the past two decades. This shift is mediated by the problematizing of perspectives and praxis in a plurality of fields central to and peripheral to Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology, the social and cultural psychologies of language.

Conceptualized in 1998, the GLOCAL conferences respond to concerns by scholars within Linguistics, Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Sociology, Cultural Studies, centrally Linguistic Anthropology, and beyond, to bridge the gap between a focus on groundbreaking scholarship on these fields and to scaffold access to this scholarship by noteworthy scholars globally. This gap is mostly due to issues of funding, expertise, and limited access and exposure to strong institutions and their academics.

The (SCOPUS / WoS / ISI) GLOCAL 2026, themed AI, Anthropological Intelligence, will build on these efforts to reduce such hegemony and the neoliberal gap, to connect  universities and their academics across the globe, with one another and with industry and society. Here, the GLOCAL 2026, as with all other past GLOCAL conferences, will opportune academics to exchange knowledge, expertise, and valuable Linguistic, Anthropological, and Technological data, through the interpersonal and inter-institutional networks that the GLOCAL and its conferences have built thus far. To ground these efforts, the GLOCAL 2026, with its global network of 4,500 universities at the centre, will continue to develop its network of institutions globally, to support these post-neoliberal global efforts.

While all papers submitted to and accepted for the conference proceedings will be stringently reviewed and then indexed by SCOPUS and Clarivate, and published in high impact publications, in its journals, and elsewhere, the theme for the GLOCAL 2026 is AI, Anthropological Intelligence, a theme pertinent to all global regions and countries vis-a-vis their global analogues and the ubuquitous technological revolution.

We thus welcome you to the GLOCAL 2026, the Annual Global Conference on Linguistic SocioCultural Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, and Language and Society, at Cambridge University, and online, as a hybrid event, and to the GLOCAL as a whole.

The GLOCAL Steering Committee

Secretary

Asmah Haji Omar (University of Malaysia, Malaysia)

Central Steering Committee

Alice Rudge (University of London, U.K.)
Anna Luisa Daigneault (Living Tongues Institute, U.S.A.)
Bert Vaux (Cambridge University, England)
David Parkin (Oxford University, U.K.)
Geoffrey Benjamin (Nanyang T. University, Singapore)
Gregory Anderson (Living Tongues Institute, U.S.A.)
Janet Watson (University of Leeds, U.K.)
Judith Pine (Western Washington University, U.S.A.)
Katia Pizzi (University of London, U.K.)
Mark Aldenderfer (University of California, Merced, U.S.A.)
Miguel Pérez-Milans (University College London, U.K.)
Richard Baxstrom (University of Edinburgh, U.K.)
Riitta Valijarvi (University College London, U.K.)
Sylvia Jaworska (University of Reading, U.K.)
Trevor H J Marchand (University of London, U.K.)
Vijay Bhatia (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
William A. Foley (Columbia University, U.S.A.)
Pavlos Kavouras (EKPA, Greece)

Communications

Nhan Huynh, Head of Communications
Anastasia Tsantes (Communications Assistant)
Samantha Emery (Communications Assistant)
Brett Green (Legal Counsel U.S.A.)
Colin Cavendish-Jones (Legal Counsel U.K.)

DESCRIPTION

The (SCOPUS / WoS / ISI) GLOCAL Conference on Linguistic Socio-Cultural Anthropology 2026, themed
AI, Anthropological Intelligence, will bring together linguistic and sociocultural anthropologists, and scholars and experts of technology, social planning, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, critical theorists, as well as governments, and industry forerunners, to deliberate on the tensions between anthropological and artificial intelligence, and solutions that pervade current humanity.

The (SCOPUS / WoS / ISI) GLOCAL Conference on Linguistic Socio-Cultural Anthropology 2026, 
AI, Anthropological Intelligence, is timely.

The global expansion of soft and hard technologies, centrally Artificial Intelligence, has problematized the ontological realities of humanity, the increasing socialization of humanity into these technologies, the mechanized subjugations of humanity to generative automation, and the capacity of the human beyond that of generative artificial intelligence, within and beyond the realm of communication.

This unprecedented technological eruption and engulfment of humanity have forced attention to how we as humans must negotiate our discursive and interactive capacities with and through these technologies. Reactions have been complex: Fear, uncertainty and trepidation, attempts to align with yet capitalize on new technologies, concern with current and future securities, deliberation on the survival of humanity, a retraining of humanity to compete with these technologies and to hence ameliorate fears of redundancy of the human, a rethinking of human evolution and its ontology vis-à-vis intelligent technologies, and efforts to ensure that the capacities of the human continue to exceed those of artificial intelligence. However, a central response has been a patent shift in processes of human communication with and through these intelligent technologies.

At the core of these discursive linkages between the human and technology is the anthropological question of how language and the social and cultural psychologies of these technologies overlap, that is, how shall the human subject now communicatively position themselves in relation to these technologies. The pathways to address this anthropological question include the following.

  • Understanding the interactions and intersubjectivities of the human with and through emerging technologies
  • Describing the purposes and legitimacies of interaction between the human and generative technologies
  • Defining the purpose of technologies as devices that mediate human interaction and functional human existence
  • Envisaging new possibilities through which technologies such as ChatGPT can mediate human interaction and purpose, not least of which are language, linguistics, communication, and the maintenance of semiotics that pervade human processes
  • Negotiating the semiotics of these new technologies in (post)structural relation to the human
  • Investigating the technologically mediated potentialities of the interactions of humans, as sentient-sapient beings

The above pathways crucially respond to the linguistic anthropological question of how humanity will communicate with and amongst these new technologies. Until the present time, this question has been inadequately addressed. Yet, the semiotics of interaction, communication, and mediation with relevance to technology are now universal, evidencing that anthropological attention to the discursive interactions of the human with and amongst the intelligent machine will assist to ground resolutions to that which is the most significant issue of our modern history, the subjugation of the human to, or the replacement of the human by, the intelligent machine.

The (SCOPUS / WoS / ISI) GLOCAL Conference on Linguistic Socio-Cultural Anthropology 2026, themed

AI, Anthropological Intelligence, 

will bring together linguistic and sociocultural anthropologists, and scholars and experts of technology, social planning, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, critical theorists, as well as governments, industry forerunners, and beyond, to deliberate on the tensions between artificial and anthropological intelligence, and to discuss pathways to discover solutions that ramify throughout human societies globally.

The GLOCAL 2026 conference thus has several purposes: To contribute to and alter thinking, policy, and the implementation of policy, with regards to human communication with and through intelligent technologies; to draw on work in the applied, linguistic, and cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics (and so forth) of off- and online interaction, in order to develop work that repositions the potency and agencies of anthropological intelligences (the multiple intelligences of the human). These intelligences themselves mediate developments and agencies in technology; to draw on anthropological scholarship to bring together scholars and global experts who will convene to rethink human communication and interaction with and through intelligent technologies; to invite discussions on the ways in which anthropological intelligences, as an affordance grounded in the creation and appropriation of semiotic practices and structures, have the capacity to evolve beyond limitations imposed by technology, following grounding work by those such as Gregory Bateson; to bring together scholars the world over to deliberate on classical linguistic sociocultural anthropology, sociolinguistics, and language and society, to rethink the appropriation of such classical linguistic anthropology (ideology, semiotics, language documentation, and so forth) in an era of pervasive intelligent technologies.

The (SCOPUS / WoS / ISI) GLOCAL Conference on Linguistic Socio-Cultural Anthropology 2026, while foregrounding its central theme  AI, Anthropological Intelligence also centrally invites papers, organized colloquia, posters, workshops. roundtables, and talks on all facets of Linguistic Socio-Cultural Anthropology. Over twenty years, the GLOCAL has expanded attention to these classical frameworks, all of which contribute to the understandings of Linguistic SocioCultural Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, Language and Society, and other pertinent fields. For a full list of these strands, see the link https://theglocal2026.link/strands/.

The Steering Committee advises contributors to develop their abstracts, general papers, colloquia, posters, and other contributions through one of the following strands. However, contributors may wish to categorize their contributions as a hybrid of these strands, as a hybrid of one of these strands and other sub fields, or by developing innovative strands that proceed in novel directions. The Steering Committee welcomes such hybridity and innovation.

  • Anthropological Intelligence
  • Anthropological Linguistics
  • Applied Sociolinguistics
  • Buddhist Studies and Discourses
  • Cognitive Anthropology and Language
  • Critical Linguistic Anthropology
  • Discourses of Religion and Spirituality
  • Ethnographic Language Work
  • Ethnography of Communication
  • Ethnomusicology
  • General Sociolinguistics
  • Islamic Studies and Discourses
  • Language, Community, Ethnicity
  • Language Contact and Change
  • Language, Dialect, Sociolect, Genre
  • Language Documentation
  • Language, Gender, Sexuality
  • Language Ideologies
  • Language and Migration
  • Discourse in Political Apparatus
  • Language and Culture as Tangible and Intangible Heritage
  • Language, Anthropology, and Pedagogy
  • Language: Material and Immaterial
  • Language Minorities and Majorities
  • Language Revitalization
  • Language in Real and Virtual Spaces
  • Language Socialization
  • Language and Spatiotemporal Frames
  • Multifunctionality
  • Narrative and Metanarrative
  • Nonverbal Semiotics
  • Pedagogical Anthropology
  • Poetics
  • Performativity
  • Post-Structuralism and Language
  • Semiotics and Semiology
  • Shamanism and Language
  • Social Psychology of Language
  • Text, Context, Entextualization
  • Lyrical and Non-Lyrical Ethnomusicology
  • Medical Discourse and Anthropology
  • The Chronotope in Language
  • The Discourse of New Technologies

CHRONOTOPE

2026 Call for Abstracts
Opens: September 15, 2025
Closes: March 15, 2026
 
Notification of Acceptance
Within one month of submission. For specific or acceptance letters, early submissions are advised.
 
Registration
Early Bird: May 1, 2026 to June 31, 2026
Regular: July 1, 2026 to August 15, 2026
Register no later than August 15, 2026, by 23:59 UTC, to guarantee a place in the program, after which registration will remain open, but organizers cannot guarantee placement.
Late Bird: August 16, 2026 to September 5, 2026
 
Conference Dates
Day 1: Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Day 2: Thursday, November 19, 2026
Day 3: Friday, November 20, 2026
 
Anthropological Excursion
Day 4: Saturday, November 21, 2026 – Full day optional Anthropological Excursion (separate cost)
 

Cambridge University

The GLOCAL 2026 Conference will be hybrid, online and at Cambridge University, and at times clusters of scholars will gather in universities at various locations globally in order to interact in real spaces. While all global networks will be invited to physically attend the GLOCAL 2026 at the University of Cambridge as a physical component to the conference, these places will be limited, will incur additional costs, and will be contingent on several factors. The GLOCAL 2026 conference attendance at the University of Cambridge will be of a select group of scholars who will also engage in roundtable discussions, but who will appear in all respective online meetings. The Cambridge physical component will be core to the global interactivity of the conference.

Global University Locations

The GLOCAL 2026 will also allow for limited participation at various locations globally, at which, participants may participate in physical collaborative environments. As with attendance at Cambridge University, attendance at each of the physical locations will incur an additional cost.

Virtual Participation

The majority of global participants will logically attend the GLOCAL 2026 virtually. Owing to geographical factors and time zones, participants may optimize their attendance by virtually participating at those times that best suit their schedules and lifeworlds.

Anthro Excursion

  • Avebury Ston Circle
  • Stonhenge
  • Silbury Hill
  • West Kennet Long Barrow
  • Colchester Castle

PROGRAM

  • Presentations: General, Colloquia, Posters
  • Workshops: Methodology, Publishing
  • Talks: Keynotes, Publisher, Industry
  • Excursions and Tours
    • Stonehenge and its Anthropology
    • Anthropological Virtual Tours
  • Publications:
    • Proceedings (SCOPUS / Wos),
    • Journals Issues
    • Special Issue Publications in High Impact Journals
  • Performances: Cultural Virtual Performances
  • Displays: Physical and Virtual
    • Publishers
    • Organizations
    • Universities
  • GLOCAL Special Sessions
    • Policy Development Sessions
    • News and Media Sessions
    • Debate Sessions
  • Anthro Excursion (Full Day)
    • Avebury Ston Circle
    • Stonhenge
    • Silbury Hill
    • West Kennet Long Barrow
    • Colchester Castle
 

SPONSORS

  • Multilingual Matters
  • Oxford University Press
  • Springer Nature
  • Routledge

SUBMIT

REGISTRATION

GLOCAL aims to ensure participation of all members who wish to attend our events. However, each event has a limited capacity, and to guarantee a fair balance amongst countries and institutions, GLOCAL may have to restrict attendance. As a result, GLOCAL reserves the right to refuse registrations if there are too many participants from any one country or from one institution. Groups from the same institution are limited to 5 participants.

Priority will be given to those who register early. We will not be able to accept additional registrations once the event is full, even if this occurs before the registration deadline. 

The early registration deadline is 31 June 2026. 
The ultimate deadline for registration is 5 September 2026.

Registration Fees (ONSITE)
Registration type Early Bird Normal Bird Late Bird
GLOCAL Member 382.50€ 425.00€ 467.50€
GLOCAL Member group registration (3 to 5 participants) 362.90€ 403.75€ 443.00€
Non member (academic/public sector) 450.00€ 500.00€ 550.00€
Non member group registration (3 to 5 participants) 427.75€ 487.50€ 536.25€
Students (non-affiliate) 360.00€ 400.00€ 440.00€
Students** (within GLOCAL affiliate) 337.50€ 375.00€ 412.50€
Registration Fees (Virtual)
Registration type Early Bird Normal Bird Late Bird
GLOCAL Member 382.50€ 425.00€ 467.50€
GLOCAL Member group registration (3 to 5 participants) 362.90€ 403.75€ 443.00€
Non member (academic/public sector) 450.00€ 500.00€ 550.00€
Non member group registration (3 to 5 participants) 427.75€ 487.50€ 536.25€
Students (non-affiliate) 360.00€ 400.00€ 440.00€
Students** (within GLOCAL affiliate) 337.50€ 375.00€ 412.50€

** This fee is only valid for students enrolled at an GLOCAL member university. To benefit from this fee, please request the institution’s secretariat to contact the GLOCAL Conference Team (glocal@soas.ac.uk

Please note that by submitting the GLOCAL Conference registration form you agree to full payment of registration fees.

The participant fee (GLOCAL members, non-members and students) includes attendance at the conference, all documentation, coffee breaks, lunches and the networking reception/gala dinner on Thursday 19 November. Participant fees do not cover travel and accommodation expenses.

Information regarding the General Assembly

GLOCAL members are encouraged to attend the GLOCAL General Assembly (GA). GLOCAL members who register for the Annual Conference will be able to indicate during the registration process whether they wish to attend the General Assembly.

GLOCAL members who do not wish to attend the GLOCAL Annual Conference are entitled to attend the GLOCAL General Assembly (GA) only, in which case no registration fee is charged. If you wish to attend the General Assembly only, please select the registration type ‘GA only’ during the first stage of the registration process. For more information, please contact the GLOCAL events team at glocal@soas.ac.uk

Confirmation

Your registration will be confirmed by email. Please wait for your confirmation before making any further arrangements. Deadline for registration is 30 March 2026.

Payment

Payment has to be made upon confirmation and prior to the event either by bank transfer or credit card. The participant assumes full responsibility for paying all bank charges associated with the payment and any fee related to the exchange rate.

Cancellations

Cancellation date Before or on 4 September 2026 From 5 September 2026
Refund amount 70% of the fee No refund

Substitutes will be accepted at any time provided that GLOCAL is informed of the change. Cancellations or changes must be sent in writing to the following email address: glocal@soas.ac.uk

Liability

Neither GLOCAL nor Yeditepe University will be liable for any losses, accidents or damage to persons or objects, regardless of the cause. Participants and companions attend the conference and all related events at their own risk and responsibility.

Photography

Please note that photos and videos will be taken during the event and may be used by the organisers and host for publications and websites. Should you be opposed to your picture being used in this way, please contact the photographer or the organisers onsite.