Sixth Postgraduate Symposium on "Linguacultural Spaces: Inclusion, Extension and Identification in Discourse and Society"

Call for papers

The sixth Postgraduate Symposium on Linguacultural Spaces: Inclusion, Extension and Identification in Discourse and Society will be hosted online by the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg University on May 21 and 22, 2026.

The symposium builds on previous collaboration between academics at: CeSLiC (Centre for Linguistic and Cultural Studies) at the Department of Modern Languages of the University of Bologna (LILEC), Italy, The School of Critical Studies and the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, which are both located at the University of Glasgow, UK, The Department of Culture Studies/ School of Humanities and Digital Sciences at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and the LINDES network at the University of Salamanca, Spain.

This symposium is an opportunity to enhance the collaborative ethos among the four institutions, each of which has an active research culture in the sociolinguistics of diversity and inclusion from a (digital) discourse-analytic perspective. The symposium invites therefore postgraduate students at each institution to share their knowledge, learn from one another, and mutually support one another in a collaborative research environment that is an ongoing process of diversity and inclusion in its own right.

We thus welcome abstracts from PhD students (200-300 words plus bibliographic references) at any stage of their research, from students of the Research Master in Language, Culture and Cognition at Tilburg University working on their final dissertation as well as from students of the International Master’s Degree in Language, Society and Communication at the University of Bologna working on their final dissertation, on topics related to inclusion, extension, and identification, broadly understood, with a focus on languages and cultures. The deadline for submissions is 20th April. Abstract acceptance will be notified by 29th April. Please send your submission to all four of the following organisers:

Max Spotti (organiser) M.spotti@tilburguniversity.edu

Tom Bartlett Tom.bartlett@glasgow.ac.uk

Sabrina Fusari sabrina.fusari2@unibo.it

Izaskun Elorza iea@usal.es

For any questions, please email the organiser.

Three to four abstracts will be selected from each institution, and each talk will be assigned a 20-minute time slot, followed by a 10-minute Q&A.

We look forward to having you there.

Dr. Massimiliano Spotti
Associate Professor (Ethnography and Digital Literacies)

Department of Culture Studies Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences

Building D Room 219 

Tilburg University 5000LE

Tilburg, The Netherlands