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Conference

54th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics

Date
Monday 25 August 2025 - Wednesday 27 August 2025
Location
Herta Mohr
Witte Singel 27A
2311 BG Leiden
Room
0.02 & 0.20

We are pleased to invite you to the 54th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL 2025) to be held in Leiden from Monday 25 August up to and including 27 August 2025. CALL will be live with an on-line option. This year there is also a special workshop on ‘Tone and intonation in African languages’.

Submit the title of your talk!

Papers and research reports on all aspects of African languages and linguistics are welcome. We shall allow 20 minutes for the presentation of each paper, plus 10 minutes discussion. If you want to give a presentation, please send in the title of your talk before 1 June 2025 using the following form. In case the form does not open for you, you can send us an email with all the information needed: call@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

Please make sure that you send us:

  1. Name
  2. Affiliation
  3. Title of the paper in French or English
  4. Email address
  5. Whether you come in person or present on-line
  6. If are you planning to join the dinner on Monday evening and if so, if you have dietary requirements
  7. Anything for us to take into account preparing the program.

We do not need an abstract of the paper. If you participate online, we request that you send your presentation as .mp4 video file before 15th August 2025.

We strive for CALL to be an inclusive and accessible event. Please let us know before July 15th 2025 if you request interpretation in International Sign or another sign language. Feel free to contact us in case of other accessibility requests.

Registration

The registration fee will be 25 euro (15 euro for (PhD-)students), to be paid on the first day of the colloquium. On Monday evening a dinner will be organized (extra costs 35 euro).

In case you need an official letter of acceptance of your participation, please let us know (via call@hum.leidenuniv.nl). If you need a visa to enter the Netherlands, make sure to start procedures well ahead of time. Unfortunately, it is not possible to provide financial assistance.

Accommodation

We suggest you try to book your own accommodation. You can find a list of suitable addresses here.

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