The Association holds an annual conference, which alternates between a Francophone country and the UK. If you would be interested in organizing and hosting a future conference, please contact AFLS President Martin Howard.
2020 conference: Postponed until 2021
In response to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we have decided to postpone this year's conference until 2021.
The upcoming conference will still take place at the Université Saint Louis, Brussels. The theme of the AFLS 2020 Conference is « Le français aujourd’hui, entre discours et usages ».
The Call for Papers is available here (PDF, Word). Abstracts (400 words maximum, title and references included) should be submitted by the deadline of 31 January 2020 at https://afls2020.sciencesconf.org/.
Further information can be found at the conference website: https://www.sesla.be/français/colloque-afls/.
Previous conferences
2019: University of Bristol
Theme: "Le français d’ici, de là, de là-bas"
Details: https://afls2019.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/
2018: Université Jean Jaurès, Toulouse
Theme: "Focus on French language usage and users"
Details: https://blogs.univ-tlse2.fr/afls2018/
2017: Glendon College, York University, Toronto
Theme: "French Across Geographical, Social, and Historical Spaces"
Details: https://www.glendon.yorku.ca/afls-2017/
2016: Queen’s University Belfast
Theme: "French as a shared language / Le français partagé"
Details: AFLS 2016
Organising committee: Janice Carruthers, Anna Tristram et Daniel McAuley (Queen’s University Belfast)
Conference email: afls2016@gmail.com
2015: Université de Caen
Date: 17-19 June 2015
Theme: “La linguistique du français vernaculaire : analyses synchroniques, perspectives diachroniques et applications didactiques”.
Details: here
2014: University of Kent
Date: 25-27 June 2014
Thème: ‘Que le français se nomme diversité…’
Details: here
2013: Université Perpignan
Date: 25-27 June 2013
Theme: “mise en relief”.
Details: here
2012 University of Newcastle
Date: 01-03 June 2012
Theme:”le français à travers le temps: acquisition, changement, variation”
2011 Université de Nancy 2, France
Date: 8-10 September 2011
Theme: “Regards nouveaux sur les liens entre théories, méthodes et données en linguistique française”
2010 University of Cambridge, UK
Date: 1-3 September 2010
Theme: “Le français: langue une, langue plurielle”
2009 Université de Neuchâtel, Suisse
Date: 3-5 September 2009
Theme: “Langue française en contextes”
2008 University of Oxford, UK
Date: 3-5 septembre 2008
Theme: Les voix du français: usages et représentations
2007 Université du Littoral, Boulogne
Date: 3-5 September 2007
Theme: “Le français sous tous ses aspects”
2006 University of West of England, Bristol
Date: 5-7 September 2006
Theme: “Variations, variétés”
2005 Université de Savoie
Date: 2-4 September 2005
Theme: “Traduction en diachronie et synchronie”
2004 Aston University, Birmingham
Date: 3-5 September 2004
Theme: “Si le français m’était conté…”
2003 Université de Tours
Date: 25 – 27 September 2003
Theme: “Le français aujourd’hui: problèmes et méthodes”
2002 University of St Andrew’s
Date: 30 August – 1 September 2002
Theme: “Le français d’hier, d’aujourd’hui et de demain”
2001 U.C.L. Louvain-la-Neuve
Date: 31 August – 2 September 2000
2000 Laval University
Carol Saunders (Organizer), University of Surrey
Assisted by:
Aidan Coveney (Exeter)
Florence Myles (Newcastle/Southampton)
Jocelyne Bisaillon (Quebec Organiser)
1999 University of Wales, Swansea
Dr Dulcie Engel
French Department
University of Wales, Swansea
Swansea, SA2 8PP, U.K.
1998 University of East Anglia
Dr Marie-Madeleine Kenning
School of Modern Languages and European Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K.
1997 Université de Montpellier
Theme: “Description du français: discours, corpus, analyses, application”