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Call for papers: GURT 2025 Language and Food

The annual meeting of the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics — GURT 2025 –will be held February 28-March 2, 2025 at Georgetown University. The theme for GURT 2025 is Language and Food 🍐. 

GURT 2025 will bring together diverse scholars whose work explores intersections between language and food. These scholars include our distinguished plenary speakers:

  • Martha Sif Karrebæk (University of Copenhagen)
  • Elinor Ochs and Tamar Kremer-Sadlik (University of California, Los Angeles)
  • Alla Tovares (Howard University)
  • Camilla Vásquez (University of South Florida)

The Organizing Committee of GURT 2025 welcomes abstracts for individual papers, posters, and colloquiums that engage with any aspect of the relationship between language and food. Submissions must be complete by November 18, 2024 (11:59pm Eastern) via Easychair. For more information about the conference and registration, and a link to the submissions page with the full call for papers, see:

GURT 2025: Language and Food