The 27th International Conference on Yue Dialects (2023)
This conference — hosted by The Ohio State University — will be held virtually via Zoom on the evenings of November 30 to December 2, 2023 (Eastern Time Zone). The dates correspond to the mornings of December 1-3 (Friday to Sunday) in East Asia.
The conference Program is now online. Check it out!
Online Registration (free and open to the public):
The International Conference on Yue Dialects, first launched in 1987 in Hong Kong by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, debuts this year as the first overseas event, outside China and its two SARs, Hong Kong and Macau! We at The Ohio State University are honored to serve as the 2023 host of this prestigious conference series. We look forward to welcoming presenters and attendees from around the world with interest in linguistic research on Cantonese and other Yue dialects.
As part of the conference, we are excited to welcome three keynote speakers.
Keynote Speaker 1:
Professor Dana Scott Bourgerie (Brigham Young University)
Lecture Title: “Mapping the Chinese Diaspora: Dialects in Southeast Asia” (Abstract and Short Bio)
Keynote Speaker 2:
Professor Gina Anne Tam (Trinity University)
Lecture Title: “Re-imagining language communities beyond the nation-state: The past, present and future of Yue fangyan” (Abstract and Short Bio)
Keynote Speaker 3:
Professor Holman Tse (St. Catherine University)
Lecture Title: “Why study Cantonese vowel variation?” (Abstract and Short Bio)