When: May 27-May 29, 2026

Where: University of British Columbia, Kelowna, Canada

Conference Theme: ⭐Bodies of Language ⭐

Highlighting the research in cognitive linguistics on signed languages, gesture, multimodal communication, and corpus linguistics.

Call for Papers:  Please upload your 300-word abstracts for here by the submission deadline - January 20, 2026  ⭐ UPDATE: Extended until January 30, 2026!⭐

Registration: (coming soon)

Organizer: Elena Nicoladis, elena(dot)nicoladis(at)ubc.ca

 🎉 We are pleased to announce the following keynote speakers:

• Seana Coulson (University of California at San Diego)

• Olivier Le Guen (CIESAS)

• Xiaoting Li (University of Alberta)