[Laura Bailey]

Hello everyone,
The Philological Society is organising an event for early career researchers in linguistics. Details are below of how to submit an abstract. Any area of linguistics is welcome, so please share this widely, and pass it on to any PhD students, postdocs, and other early career people who might be interested.

Call for Papers
Philological Society Early Career Event

The Philological Society invites abstracts for consideration for the Early Career event, to take place on Friday 16 October 2026 at University College London (UCL).

The Philological Society (PhilSoc) was established in 1830 and is the oldest learned society in Great Britain devoted to the scholarly study of language and languages. As well as encouraging all aspects of the study of language, PhilSoc has a particular interest in historical and comparative linguistics, and in the structure, development, and varieties of Modern English. The event will be immediately followed by the public Philological Society meeting, at which the speaker will be Dr Guyanne Wilson (UCL). Therefore, we anticipate that part of the Early Career event will be linked to the talk and themed around the sociolinguistics of World Englishes and part of it will be a general session. As such, we invite abstracts focussed on any aspect of linguistics as well as abstracts specifically addressing World Englishes.

We welcome work in its early stages, as well as more developed work. We define ‘Early Career’ relatively loosely: postgraduate students, post docs, and researchers within 5 years of the award of their PhD are welcome to submit. If you are unsure if you would qualify, feel free to reach out to the organisers.

There is no registration fee, and lunch is provided. There is financial support available to assist with travel and other attendance costs. Further details about this will be circulated shortly.

Participants are invited to present work either in a 15-minute slot followed by questions, or as a poster. Please indicate your preference at the top of your abstract. Abstracts for proposed presentations or posters should not exceed 300 words (excluding references) and be submitted in PDF format to the Secretary of PhilSoc at secretary@philsoc.org.uk.

Deadline for submission: Monday 2 March 2026
Notification of acceptance: Friday 27 March 2026
Event dates: Friday 16 October 2026, 12.30–6pm (followed by an informal dinner).

The event will take place at University College London.

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