STAL Seminar

Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) is an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms in general, from languages that have been seldom discussed in the recent philosophical and semantic literature, and in particular, from sign languages and non-Indo-European languages. Its main aim is to bring to light new empirical data and uncover novel interesting phenomena that may have the potential to challenge current theories. Empirical studies of the expressions mentioned from such languages, comparisons with English slurs, as well as wider cross-linguistic approaches and developments of extant theories in application to the new data or previously neglected phenomena are encouraged too.

The network's coordinators are Isidora Stojanovic (Pompeu Fabra University/CNRS-Institut Jean Nicod) & Dan Zeman (University of Porto). More information about the network and its activities can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork. To contact the network coordinators, please write to [email protected].

The STAL Seminar features monthly, online talks by researchers tackling issues related to the study of slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms in general, from less studied languages. The meetings in the 2026-2027 academic year take place on MONDAYS, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET). The list of speakers is the following (exact dates and titles to be provided soon):

- OCTOBER 12, 2026: Martina Wiltschko (ICREA/Pompeu Fabra University)

- NOVEMBER 30, 2026: Daniel James (Technical University Berlin)

- DECEMBER 14, 2026: Jennifer Saul (University of Waterloo)

- JANUARY 2027: Muhammad Owais Raza (Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University) 

- FEBRUARY 2027: Chris Cousens (University of Glasgow)

- MARCH 2027: Jessica Keiser (University of North Carolina)

- APRIL 19, 2027: Cornelia Loos (University of Cologne)

- MAY 2027: Marcin Lewiński (NOVA University of Lisbon)

- JUNE 2027: TBA.