The University of Antwerp will host the 2021 edition of Sociolinguistics Circle on Wednesday 19 May 2021. Due to covid measures, the conference will take place online.

The Morfologiedagen – Morphology Days in the Low Countries 2021 will be hosted by Utrecht University on 22-23 April. It will feature a workshop on natural and/or grammatical gender.

On April 20, Professor Chet Sherwood (Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology George Washington Mind-Brain Institute) will give a formal online MPI Colloquium. After the talk, there will be a Q&A session using the webinar chat function.

Marieke Schouwstra, Assistant Professor in cognitive science and artificial intelligence at the ILLC, UvA, is the guest speaker at the online ACLC seminar on Friday 26 March 2021 from 16:15 till 17:30.

Three-year doctoral grant at the University of Tours in the Inserm Neurofunctional psychiatry team of the iBrain research unit to begin in the Fall of 2021 on the heterogeneity of neurophysiological and language profiles in autism.

The first workshop of SMART CS in 2021 will be held by Dr Eva van Lier, Dr Rik van Gijn, Dr Pegah Faghiri, and Katherine Walker. The workshop will also host keynote speakers Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Gerrit Jan Kootstra (Radboud University Nijmegen), among other speakers.

The Dutch Studies section of the Department of Modern Languages of the University of Liège is organizing a symposium with Prof. Dr. Gloria Wekker on the topic of White Innocence. It includes talks on linguistics, literature and cultural studies.

As a thematic extension of the general call of the SEMANTiCS2021 conference, this sub-topic invites high quality submissions that show how Semantic technologies have been applied to develop and improve humanities and cultural heritage research and practice. We invite both research papers describing novel approaches and insights as well as case studies and industry submissions.

The Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) invites applications for a PhD position. Applicants are invited to submit their own research project. Deadline for applications is 31 March 2021.