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Call For Papers

We are now accepting submissions!

Submission deadline: February 17, 2025

We are pleased to announce the 7th annual edition of Boğaziçi University Student Conference on Linguistics (SCOL)! Formerly known as BUSCTEL, Boğaziçi SCOL aims to gather students of Linguistics from all over the world at a conference in Istanbul. Since 2018, each year we enrich our catalogue of research projects, provide a good experience for our attendees, and house more and more guests from around the world.

SCOL invites abstracts in any area of linguistic research, including but not limited to syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, phonology, phonetics, typology, computational syntax/semantics and all relevant interfaces and related fields in cognitive/social sciences. If you are an aspiring linguist or interested in the aforementioned fields, submit an abstract to tell us about your research and findings in Istanbul.

The official language of the conference is English. Submissions are open for 30-minute talks (20-minute talk + 10 minutes for discussion) and posters.

SCOL does not charge any speakers for a talk or poster session. All graduate and undergraduate students are welcome and encouraged to submit an abstract via our Oxford Abstracts platform

Abstract guidelines:

Submissions that fail to comply with any of the following guidelines will be automatically rejected.

Submit anonymized abstracts in PDF format with the filename PaperTitle.pdf.
Use the abstract template provided here. (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KMeBXK8fOZ4Br64aRNVL-qqv5elNDSr0)
Include the paper title and a maximum of four keywords (e.g., linguistic subfield(s), language(s)/language family) within the abstract.
Limit abstracts to two pages in A4 format in length. Use one-inch or 2.5 cm margins on all sizes and Times New Roman 11 point font size with single spacing, including footnotes.
Incorporate data into the main text of the abstract, not on a separate page.
Anonymize submissions by not including author name(s) or any institutional name(s) in the abstract or filename.
Use the Oxford Abstracts platform for the submission of abstracts.
Restrict submissions to one individual abstract and one joint abstract per author, or two joint abstracts per author.
The language of the abstract must be English.

Keynote speakers:

TBA

Important dates:

Submission deadline: February 17, 2025

Notification for acceptance: March 17, 2025

Conference dates: May 6 - 7, 2025