The 2025 Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand will be hosted by Massey University at the Massey Wellington campus on November 27-28.
There will also be a pre-conference training workshop for post-graduate students, ECRs and other interested linguists on November 26.
The conference aims to provide a forum for the discussion of all linguistic research in Aotearoa-New Zealand.
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Conference registration and dinner
You can register for the conference and the conference dinner at this link.
The conference fees are:
Academic/waged $280
Student $85
Conference dinner $65
The conference dinner will be held on Thursday 27th of November at Southern Cross restaurant, arriving at 6pm.
Membership
Everyone attending the conference must be a member or student member of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand. You can register or renew your membership at this link.
Pre-conference workshop
There will be a pre-conference workshop on Wednesday 26th November, for post graduate students and other interested members. You can attend the workshop at no extra cost, but please do let us know whether you intend to attend the workshop when you register for catering purposes. The workshop will run from 09:30-17:00.
The workshop will focus on research interviews. Whether as a main source of data or as a supplement to other kinds of research, interviews are an important tool in studies across all areas of linguistics. From in-depth qualitative interviews exploring language attitudes in sociolinguistic context, through to eliciting translations in language documentation or grammaticality judgements in syntactic analysis, interviews are a flexible tool for exploring metalinguistic knowledge, based in a relational exchange between the researcher and research participants.
The workshop will present different approaches and tools across stages of interview-based research: planning and conducting interviews, as well as analysing the data and communicating the results. This will be a hands-on workshop with opportunities for participants to plan and conduct their own short interviews and reflect on their experiences within and beyond the workshop.
This workshop is primarily aimed at postgraduate students, but undergraduate students who would like to get a taste of further study in linguistics, and research staff who would like an opportunity to reflect on their practice and share their own experiences, are also encouraged to attend.
Conference information
The registration desk for the main conference will open at 8am for an 8:45 start on Thursday 27th November.
The conference will finish at 4:30 on Friday 28th November.
All papers are oral presentations of 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion.
Plenary talks
There will be three plenary talks during the conference.
Associate Professor Nicola Daly (University of Waikato, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato)
Can something as small as a picturebook contribute to something as big as language revitalisation?
Dr Ake Nicholas (University of Auckland, Waipapa Tamata Rau)
Noa atu ꞌe ngarungaru te tai – tūkētūkē te au rima i tō tereꞌanga | Even though the sea is choppy you have many different hands on your journey
Associate Professor Hona Black (Massey University, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa)
Te Huringa o te Tai: Where the tide turns – Reawakening Domains Beyond Revitalisation
