Sociolinguistics Events Calendar
Welcome to the Sociolinguistic Events Calendar, which is designed to list all sociolinguistic events around the world, including conferences, public lectures, training events, PhD summer schools, etc.
If you have a Google account, then you can easily integrate it with your own calendar by clicking the little “+ Google Calendar” icon in the bottom right of the calendar.
You can also sync Google Calendar with Outlook calendar, and with other online calendars that use the iCalendar format (e.g. Apple Calendars) by copying and pasting the following iCalendar URL:
https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/3n7v0bteok63efhlh7huvsud74%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
See Apple’s guide for further information.
If you would like your event added, please contact any one of the compilers (time zones included, for information):
- Dave Sayers, dave.sayers@cantab.net, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (EET: GMT+2)
- Marie-Eve Bouchard, marie-eve.bouchard@su.se, Stockholm University, Sweden (CET: GMT +1)
- Natalia Banasik, natalia.banasik@psych.uw.edu.pl, University of Warsaw (CET: GMT +1)
- Fergus O’Dwyer, fodwyerj@gmail.com, Marino Institute of Education, Dublin, Ireland (GMT)
- Valerie Freeman, valerie.freeman@okstate.edu, Oklahoma State University, USA (EST: GMT -5)
- Hayley Heaton, heheaton@umich.edu, University of Michigan, USA (EST: GMT -5)
- Nadezhda Sotirova, nsotirov@morris.umn.edu, University of Minnesota, USA (CST: GMT -6)
- Anna Belew, anna.belew@gmail.com, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA (HST: GMT -10)
If you’re organising or attending a sociolinguistic event, then you may wish to read these reports, completed by sociolinguists around the world:
- Survey on Remote Attendance at Sociolinguistic Events
- General Conference Preferences Survey
- Survey on Electronic Gizmos and Doowackeys
- Survey on Childcare at Conferences
Each survey had over 100 responses and showed some clear trends in what people want from conferences and other sociolinguistic events.
Dave Sayers

BAAL is a professional association, based in the UK, which provides a forum for people interested in language and applied linguistics. We have an international professional membership of around 1000 members.
To read more about what applied linguistics is and does, click here.