December 18~19, 2026 The 30th International Conference on Yue Dialects
The 30th International Conference on Yue Dialects will be held on December 18~19, 2026 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), which is jointly organized by the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre, CUHK and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, CUHK, co-organized by the Hong Kong Base of the Joint Research Institute for International Communication of Language and Culture of the Ministry of Education and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao University Alliance for Chinese, and sponsored by the Faculty of Arts, CUHK and the United College, CUHK. This Conference will be one of the commemorative activities for the 60th anniversary of the T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre, CUHK. It aims to promote academic exchange in Yue dialect studies and related fields. Scholars worldwide are cordially invited to submit abstracts and participate in the Conference. We invite abstracts for submission on all aspects of linguistics of Cantonese and other Yue dialects, preferably associated with the theme on “Cantonese in the World, the World in Cantonese: From Theory to Practice”. We aim to explore how linguistic theories can be translated into practical applications and development to meet societal (and even global) needs, particularly in the areas of technology and digitalization, language education, and cultural preservation. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.