The Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact invites you to an interdisciplinary conference that will explore the ways in which ecology intersects with language contact, cultural transformation, and pedagogical practice.

The conference convenes scholars, educators, translators, artists, and community advocates to examine how practices of naming, storytelling, teaching, and translating can resist ecological, linguistic, and cultural abandonment. How do metaphors of purity and contamination shape both environmental and linguistic policy? What can disability justice teach us about sustaining multilingual ecologies of access? How might translation function as a form of environmental care work?

Conference dates: Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact | Glendon College, York University | 15-16 October, 2026

Submission deadline for abstract: 15 June 2026

For details, see here: https://www.easlce.eu/cfp-resisting-abandonment-language-culture-and-ecology/