CfP: CEL/ELC 2025 Annual Conference (4-5 Dec, Brescia)
CEL/ELC 2025 Annual Conference
Speaking the Future: Language Policies and Professional Communication within the Multilingual Landscape of Higher Education
4-5 December 2025
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Brescia, Italy
This year’s conference will focus on the evolving landscape of multilingualism, language policy, and professional communication in higher education, with particular attention to the impact of digital technologies and AI.
This conference seeks to discuss topics as:
• the design, implementation, and evaluation of institutional language policies, balancing global aspirations with local language rights and equity;
• professional communication strategies in multilingual settings, including administrative discourse and academic genres, also linked to science communication and popularisation;
• technology-mediated solutions — collaborative platforms that enhance multilingual scholarly output;
• training and awareness-raising programs for staff and students, promoting reflexivity and competence in language policy and language diversity;
• governance issues and linguistic and epistemic justice, questioning linguistic hierarchies and the cultural erosion/loss of knowledge implied by an uncritical use of AI.
Please structure your proposal around one of the following three thematic sections, each guided by key questions (see the CfP document below):
Section 1: Reimagining Language Policies in Multilingual Institutions
Section 2: Professional and Academic Communication across Languages and Cultures
Section 3: Technologies, Translanguaging, and the Future of Multilingual Education
Submission Guidelines
Participants must:
• Indicate the section (1, 2, or 3) to which their abstract is submitted.
• Provide a title, an abstract (max 300 words), and a brief bionote (max 150 words).
• Submit proposals by 6 September 2025 via celelc@unicatt.it.
Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2025
Registration link and deadline
In-presence attendance by 30 October 2025, remote attendance by 15 November 2025.
For both in-presence and remote attendance, please kindly register at this link.
Registration fee
For CEL/ELC institutional or individual members with up-to-date membership fees, all conference fees are waived.
Otherwise, if your institution has not paid this year’s membership, attendance fees are as follows:
– Conference fee for presenters: €100
– Conference fee for participants (simple attendants): €50
– Conference fee for PhD students: €30
Payment must be made by bank transfer no later than 20 November 2025.
Please see the full Call for Papers with more details below.
