The international conference Beyond Language \;- Vienna edition\, hosted at the University of Vienna - brings together scholars from philosophy\, theology\, linguistics\, and related disciplines to discuss the role and limits of language in human knowledge\, experience\, and social life. The conference aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on how language shapes understanding\, truth\, justification\, and social practices of knowledge.
\nWe invite submissions addressing topics such as philosophy of language\, epistemology\, neopragmatism\, political epistemology\, hermeneutics\, religion and the public sphere\, and other interdisciplinary approaches to language\, meaning\, and knowledge.
\nSubmission
\nPlease submit an abstract including:
\ntitle of the paper
\nabstract (300&ndash\;400 words) clearly presenting the research question\, theoretical framework\, and main argument
\nshort academic bio (max. 100 words)
\ninstitutional affiliation
\nPresentation time: 10&ndash\;15 minutes\, followed by discussion.
\nSubmissions should be sent to: \;a12547311@unet.univie.ac.at and \;monika.piechota@uwr.edu.pl
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260421T195943Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260626T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260627T170000 SUMMARY:The BEYOND LANGUAGE 2026 Conference UID:20260424T075020Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Universitätsring 1\, Vienna\, Austria DESCRIPTION:BEYOND LANGUAGE \;is an international conference that aims at integrating international young researchers of language\, literature and culture understood as pivotal social human behavioral patterns. Conference organizers wish to address\, among other issues\, the need of investigating minority speech communities\, endangered and vanishing languages\, literatures and cultures\, small languages\, pidgins and creoles\, as well as narrowing down the scope of study of cultural practices performed by the means of language and studies through the scope of contact linguistics and anthropological linguistics.
\nThis year the Young Scholars Conference &ndash\; BEYOND LANGUAGE 2026 &ndash\; for the first time invites scientists from biological\, medical\, and experimental sciences!
\nThe scope of the conference seeks to establish a ground for new research in the following areas:
\n&ndash\; endangered and vanishing languages\, literatures and cultures\,
\n&ndash\; anthropological linguistics\,
\n&ndash\; studies of cultures and societies\,
\n&ndash\; cultural patterns in discursive practices\,
\n&ndash\; folk-linguistics and folk-anthropology\,
\n&ndash\; mechanisms of language change (and language death)\,
\n&ndash\; the ethnography of communication\,
\n&ndash\; studies of small languages and linguistic vitality\,
\n&ndash\; field linguistics\,
\n&ndash\; translation/interpretation studies\,
\n\;&ndash\; non-confessional theology\,
\n&ndash\; public and critical theology\,
\n&ndash\; philosophy of religion\,
\n&ndash\; political epistemology\,
\n&ndash\; studies of identity\, borders\, and cultural transformation\, broader interdisciplinary humanities\,
\n&ndash\; current research problems and challenges in contemporary biology\, medicine and experimental sciences in all their dimensions.
\nHonorary patronage &\; publication opportunity:
\nÆ\; \;Academic Publishing\, San Diego\, USA
\nAcademic Journal of Modern Philology
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