ILANSCO 2026

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Landscapes in Language, Society, and Cognition

Emerging Landscapes: Languages and Landscapes in Conflict

16 -18 September 2026 | Prague, Czech Republic

Welcome to the official website of ILANSCO 2026, a conference dedicated to exploring the dynamic interplay between language, society, cognition, and landscapes. Following the successful inaugural ILANSCO 2024 in Zürich, ILANSCO2026 will focus on emerging landscapes, particularly landscapes as contested, transforming, and frontier spaces shaped by linguistic, cultural, political, and ecological forces. The conference will take place at the main building of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

For this year, we invite contributions addressing the theme, “Emerging Landscapes: Languages and Landscapes in Conflict.” Focus areas include, but are not limited to:

• 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 Early-career researchers and ongoing or unpublished projects are especially encouraged.

Selected papers from ILANSCO 2026 will be considered for a joint publication following the conference.

You can view the full call for papers here.

Submit abstracts and register via our online form.