The Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) was first convened in 1970 and has since been held every year at various sites throughout North America. The affiliated Association of Contemporary African Linguistics, founded in 2013 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity, has the same mission: to advance and sustain the linguistic study of African languages. The Association (with the same acronym) seeks to continue and provide stability to that tradition and to the conference itself. The Association solicits support from ACAL’s attendees to guarantee the conference’s stability into the future.

We as an organization welcome all members from any country or background.

Next ACAL Conferences

ACAL51-52 will be hosted by the University of Florida, April 8-10,  2021. The Florida conference home page is here. The ACAL51 conference, planned for Rutgers in May 2020, but cancelled due to COVID-19, has a conference page here. It is now going to be totally virtual rather than in person. See the Florida web page for details. The deadline for abstracts was November 13.

ACAL 50 in 2019 was hosted by the University of British Columbia, from 23-25 May, 2019. Additional satellite workshops were held 22-23 May. The Conference home page is here.