10th Language Creation Conference Video Links
Last weekend was the 10th Language Creation Conference, and it was a big success!
If you missed it (or if you want to watch the presentations again), don’t worry: everything was recorded, and the recordings (fully captioned!) are available on our YouTube channel. Go over there if you want to (re-)watch:
The presentations are also all available as separate videos assembled into the LCC10 Playlist.
In the coming weeks we will also feature every presentation video on this tumblr, so keep an eye on us!
Thanks to the presenters, audience, live captioner, and everyone else who was involved in making this conference a success. We’ll see everyone again at the 11th Language Creation Conference, this time hopefully face to face!
Fiat Lingua!
The Second Day of the 10th Language Creation Conference Has Started
Please use this link to join!
The First Day of the 10th Language Creation Conference Has Started
Please use this link to join!
Just one more week!
Join us this Saturday and Sunday for the Tenth Language Creation Conference. See the website for up-to-date times and abstracts.
The conference is free to attend and will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel. The direct links to the livestreams (1 per day) will be shared on the website ahead of the streams starting, and if you subscribe to our YouTube channel you’ll be able to set up a reminder notification for each livestream.
See you all this weekend!
Fiat Lingua!
10th Language Creation Conference Announcement
Mark your calendars! The Language Creation Society is pleased to announce the schedule for the Tenth Language Creation Conference, to be held online the weekend of April 22nd‒23rd! The conference is free to attend and will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel. Videos of the individual presentations will be made available after processing.
More information will be available on our website soon. In the meantime, you can view the most updated schedule here.
You can subscribe to the LCS calendar with this link: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_fsk1ppqbkssu3tqusihnf7ago8%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
Add the URL, not the ICS file you get if you download it! See instructions for your calendar app at:
Conlang Relay and reminder of LCC abstract deadline
Hiyas conlangers!
As we prepare for LCC 10 on April 22-23 (digital conference), we’re also getting started on the conlang relay.
If you’re interested in participating in the conlang relay, please email Kelvin Jackson (Kechpaja) at kechpaja<at>kechpaja<dot>com to sign up.
Important: Include any dates between February 10-April 10 that you are NOT available to receive the torch. The exact dates of the relay will depend on the number of participants. Additionally, if you consider the conlang that you’re planning to use for the relay to be “unusual” (e.g., 2D writing system, very alien grammar and/or mode of transmission), please let Kelvin know-if there is enough participation from this category, there may be an “unusual ring.”
Never been part of a conlang relay? Here’s what you need to know: The relay master (Kelvin) will prepare a text in a conlang (the torch) and will send that text as well as any documentation needed to translate it to the first person in the relay. Over the subsequent 48 hours, that person will try to translate the text into a common language (e.g., English), and then into their conlang. Once the translation is completed, they send the torch to the next person in the relay (including the materials to be able to translate). At the end of the relay, the relay master then does a final translation. During the LCC, we’ll present the relays through the various iterations and compare how much the original text changed in translation. Relays operate on a tight schedule to ensure people have at least 48 hours to do the two translations (out of the previous conlang and into their own conlang), so don’t be surprized when you receive instructions that if you do not complete your translation on time, you will be skipped.
Additionally, we are still accepting abstracts to present at LCC 10. You can submit an abstract to talk about any aspect of conlanging-from showcasing personal conlangs to how-to talks to formal analyses of conlangs. To submit your abstract, follow the instructions below. Important: Abstracts are due by Monday, January 23.
The Language Creation Society is currently accepting submissions from those wishing to present at the 10th Language Creation Conference (LCC 10). LCC 10 will be a virtual conference, hosted on Zoom and YouTube live on April 22-23, 2023.
To submit an abstract for presentation, please email your abstract to president<at>conlang<dot>org by January 23, 2023.Your abstract should not exceed 250 words (title/authors, pictures/graphs/figures, and references do not count towards word limit) and include the following important information:
- Title
- Author(s) names (with optional affiliation)
- Author(s) email address(es)
- Your local time zone (will be used for scheduling presentation of successful abstracts)
After January 23rd, we will review abstracts and provide notifications of acceptance/decline by February 22, 2023. Note: The length of presentations will not be finalized until presentations are confirmed. We will aim for presenters to have a 30-minute window, including a 10-minute question period; a select few presenters will be offered a 60-minute slot, including a 15-minute question period. Talks devoted to a specific conlang will be considered for lightning talks, which will be 15 minutes, including a 5-minute question period. These times may be adjusted based on requirements of the final program.
Additionally, we are also seeking proposals for panel discussions. You may submit a proposal for a panel discussion on a topic relevant to conlanging (Examples: at LCC7, we had a panel discussion on the role of conlanging in the academy; at LCC8, we had a panel discussion on conlangs in popular fiction; and at LCC 9, we had a panel discussion on the benefits of natlang study groups for conlangers). If you wish to submit a panel proposal, please give a short description of the topic to be discussed; a couple example questions that the moderator could start off the discussion with; and three-to-five panelists to populate the panel, with a brief bio for each panelist. You should discuss the proposal with your suggested panelists before submission to confirm that the panelists are willing to be involved, and that they plan to attend the conference.
All documents should be submitted in PDF format.
If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask.Fiat Lingua!
Announcement: Call for Presentations for the 10th Language Creation Conference
The Language Creation Society is currently accepting submissions from those wishing to present at the 10th Language Creation Conference (LCC 10). LCC 10 will be a virtual conference, hosted on Zoom and YouTube live on April 22–23, 2023.
To submit an abstract for presentation, please email your abstract to president<at>conlang<;dot>org by January 23, 2023.
Your abstract should not exceed 250 words (title/authors, pictures/graphs/figures, and references do not count towards word limit) and include the following important information:
- Title
- Author(s) names (with optional affiliation)
- Author(s) email address(es)
- Your local time zone (will be used for scheduling presentation of successful abstracts)
After January 23rd, we will review abstracts and provide notifications of acceptance/decline by February 22, 2023. Note: The length of presentations will not be finalized until presentations are confirmed. We will aim for presenters to have a 30-minute window, including a 10-minute question period; a select few presenters will be offered a 60-minute slot, including a 15-minute question period. Talks devoted to a specific conlang will be considered for lightning talks, which will be 15 minutes, including a 5-minute question period. These times may be adjusted based on requirements of the final program.
Additionally, we are also seeking proposals for panel discussions. You may submit a proposal for a panel discussion on a topic relevant to conlanging (Examples: at LCC 7, we had a panel discussion on the role of conlanging in the academy; at LCC 8, we had a panel discussion on conlangs in popular fiction; and at LCC 9, we had a panel discussion on the benefits of natlang study groups for conlangers). If you wish to submit a panel proposal, please give a short description of the topic to be discussed; a couple example questions that the moderator could start off the discussion with; and three-to-five panelists to populate the panel, with a brief bio for each panelist. You should discuss the proposal with your suggested panelists before submission to confirm that the panelists are willing to be involved, and that they plan to attend the conference.
All documents should be submitted in PDF format.
Stay tuned: More information on LCC 10 will be available soon, and in the New Year, we will announce the call for participants for the LCC 10 conlang relay!
Fiat Lingua!
We’re Back Baby!
So, after nearly two years of radio silence, we’re finally back! Sorry about that everyone, we’ve been having a hard time maintaining our social media presence, and this place felt the brunt of it. But we’re now back and with a brand new social media manager, who should make sure we never go this quiet again.
Now, for those who have forgotten who we are, and those who discover us now thanks to this post, a quick introduction:
We’re the Language Creation Society, a California-based non-profit organisation with international reach and membership. Our main purpose is the promotion and furthering of the art, craft and science of language creation (conlanging) through conferences, books, journals, outreach activities, or other means (like literally, it’s in our articles of incorporation and everything!). Basically, we’re an organisation of conlangers, for conlangers, and for conlanging as a whole.
How do we do this? By many means. We’ve got a Jobs Board for conlangers who want to practice their craft professionally. It’s set up so as to ensure people who do conlanging for others are paid fairly for their work (it’s a work in progress) and don’t end up in disadvantageous contracts. For people who are interested in doing something conlang-related academically, we’ve got the LCS Presidents’ Scholarship, which is a (modest) amount of money we award to people with interesting academical projects that align with our main purpose. For general conlang-related projects, we’ve got the LCS Grants (currently the most famous project we supported financially is probably the Conlanging, The Art of Crafting Tongues film, the first full-length documentary on conlanging ever made). But our main article is the Language Creation Conference, for many conlangers the only way for them to ever meet other conlangers face to face. So far we’ve organised 8 face-to-face conferences in North America and Europe (all with live streaming and online participation for those who couldn’t join), one online-only conference (thanks COVID), and due to circumstances outside our control our next conference will be online-only as well. But we’ll get back to doing face-to-face conferences someday!
Of course, all these activities cost money. Which is why we encourage people to join our organisation as a member, which will give you many benefits, including the power to help decide what we actually do. The more people join us, the more we can do to help conlangers and conlanging as a whole. Not just thanks to a larger budget (we fully depend on membership fees for our income, and everyone working at the LCS does so as an unpaid volunteer), but because you can bring your ideas to the table and help us provide the best support we can to the conlanging community in general and our members in particular.
So this is us. In the next weeks, expect more announcements from us as we pick up steam (I’ll also share videos from the latest Language Creation Conference from our Youtube channel). In the meantime, feel free to reblog this post so everyone can be made aware of our return to Tumblr, and our Asks are also open to anyone who has any question concerning us or conlanging in general. We’re here to support you, so don’t hesitate to get in touch!
And since it’s the season, happy Lexember everyone!
Thinking about the next Language Creation Conference yet? We are!
Hello Conlangers!
We are proud to announce that we are now open to receive proposals from people interested in hosting the eighth Language Creation Conference (LCC8) in 2019.
A checklist and summaries of previous LCCs are available here: https://conlang.org/language-creation-conference/.
The deadline for submitting a proposal is Thursday, September 27. Please send your proposals to [email protected].
The winner will be announced in late October/early November.
Fiat lingua!
The deadline is approaching! If you plan on sending a proposal, consider warning the LCS people in advance so they know to expect it.
Thinking about the next Language Creation Conference yet? We are!
Hello Conlangers!
We are proud to announce that we are now open to receive proposals from people interested in hosting the eighth Language Creation Conference (LCC8) in 2019.
A checklist and summaries of previous LCCs are available here: https://conlang.org/language-creation-conference/.
The deadline for submitting a proposal is Thursday, September 27. Please send your proposals to [email protected].
The winner will be announced in late October/early November.
Fiat lingua!