Call for Papers Now Open for ILANSCO 2026

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the second international conference on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Landscapes in Language, Society, and Cognition (ILANSCO 2026), to be held from 16-18 September 2026 in Prague, Czech Republic, at the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Building on the success of ILANSCO 2024 in Zürich, this year’s theme, Emerging Landscapes: Languages and Landscapes in Conflict, invites researchers to explore how landscapes are shaped, perceived, and contested across cultural, linguistic, cognitive, and political domains.

Event Details

Dates: 16-18 September 2026

Location: Czech Academy of Sciences, Národní třída 3, Prague, Czech Republic

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2025

About the Conference

ILANSCO 2026 brings together scholars from linguistics, anthropology, geography, history, psychology, and related disciplines to examine how humans experience and engage with landscapes. We particularly welcome contributions that address:

• Landscapes where perceptual tools are stretched to their limits (e.g., extreme environments, political upheavals, newly settled regions)
• Cases where research methods and theories struggle to capture complex experiences (e.g., divergence between linguistic descriptions and embodied knowledge)
• Landscapes as contested or contingent spaces shaped by linguistic, ethnic, political, and ecological claims

We welcome original, interdisciplinary submissions employing applied, theoretical, quantitative, qualitative, experimental, or computational approaches. Early-career researchers and ongoing or unpublished projects are especially encouraged.

For full details and submission guidelines, please visit the conference website here.