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National Colloquium 2026
Call for papers are now open for individual papers, panel sessions, workshops, roundtables, and posters for the 2026 LCNAU Ninth Biennial Colloquium.
Hosted by the Australian National University’s School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, the LCNAU2026 Colloquium will explore the theme ‘Languages at the Crossroads: Imagining Futures, Bridging Divides’.
LCNAU invites scholars, practitioners, early career researchers and postgraduate students to submit papers on a wide range of interest areas to explore how language and culture education can respond to contemporary challenges while also opening pathways to more inclusive, imaginative and connected futures.
Submissions close on Monday 4 May 2026.
Discover our past colloquia
2024
Trans/formation: Research and education in languages and cultures.
The eighth colloquium was held at The University of Sydney, 27-29 November 2022.
2022
Looking back, looking forward: New directions and challenges in languages and cultures
The seventh colloquium was held at The University of Melbourne, 28-30 November 2022.
2021
Decentring and Diversifying Languages and Cultures
The sixth colloquium was held at The University of Queensland, 24-26 November 2021.
2019
The fifth colloquium was held at The University of Western Australia, 27-29 November 2019.
The fourth colloquium was held at The University of Adelaide, 27-29 November 2017, and was followed, on 29 November, by the Adelaide Languages Festival
The third biennial colloquium was held at Macquarie University, 25-27 November 2015.
The second biennial colloquium was held at the ANU, 3-5 July, 2013.
The inaugural colloquium was held at the University of Melbourne, 26-28 September 2011.