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 Henry Tyne
The upcoming conference for 2019 is to take place in Bristol: please visit https://afls2019.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/ for more information.
Previous conferences
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”