Programme & Agenda
We are looking forward to welcoming you to Bologna to celebrate and learn about a wide range of languages and the ways we use them in our lives.
The Polyglot Conference welcomes Everyone Who Loves Language!
You may also be interested in joining an excursion or taking part in language courses in Bolognese and Italian. You can find more information about these in your ticket.
Wednesday 18th November
Community Day & Registration
Language tables & Workshops
Mandarin, Korean, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Cantonese, Swedish, Finnish, Italian, Turkish, Thai, Arabic, African languages, Vietnamese, Hindi, Latin American studies and more + No-English Corner available
Games, Booths & Activities
Opening Ceremony
Thursday 19th and Friday 20th November
This year, the in-person Polyglot Conference in Bologna will feature 20-minute speaker slots, giving even more people the chance to share their ideas on the Polyglot Conference stage.
Join us in the historic library of a working monastery in the centre of Bologna for three days of talks, activities and opportunities to meet fellow language lovers from around the globe.
Our programme begins with registration from 08:00 and runs through to 18:00, with plenty of other activities taking place alongside the main programme throughout your time with us.
There will also be opportunities to join tours in the days after the conference, as well as language courses before the main event begins.
There is lots to look forward to, and we are very much looking forward to welcoming you to Bologna!
Below you will find the schedule for the two days of conference presentations.
Please note that the programme may be subject to change where required.
Thursday 19th November
Registration & mingle
Take your seats
Alex Senoner
Ladin: A Living Romance Relic in the Italian Alps
Benny Lewis
How to be a nomadic polyglot for a quarter of a century
Emma Walker
Tricks To Nail Perfect Pronunciation and Accent in Any Language (that your teacher would NEVER tell you).
María de Vera
Creative polyglot, many lives: how to design a multilingual career with AI as your stage manager
Juan Mendoza Romero
AI and Endangered Languages: Digital Salvation or Linguistic Extinction?
Bozorádi Petra
What Is Behind the Cases – In Hungarian and Other Languages
Luca Lampariello & David Allen Martin II
The Hybrid Path to Fluency: Using AI to Strengthen Human Connection
Group photo
Lunch
Sophia Smith Galer
How To Kill A Language: How My Nonna's Piaśintein Took Me Around The World
Taylor Jones
Evidence Based Learning: Accelerating Language Learning with Linguistics, Learning Science, and LLMs
Dr Kensa Broadhurst
The Horizon Europe Revive Project: A Cornish perspective
Jonathan Martínez
Euskera: i confini dell’ufficialità
Dr Manuela Pellegrino
Chronotopic shifts in and through Griko: Translation as language activism and heritage practice.
Dr. Carlos Yebra López
Losing Chavacano?: Colonial Legacies and the Language Left Behind
Dorota Maczuga
Your Feed is a Classroom: Learning Chinese in the Age of Doomscrolling
Olga Koeva
Language Competence and Access to Coping in New-cultural Environments among Polyglots.
See you tomorrow
Friday 20th November
Registration & mingle
Take your seats
Giulia Lucania & Fabrizio Caveja
Dialetto a chi? La ribellione delle lingue locali in Italia
Lori Lye
Do Streaks Equate to Language Learning? A Study of Competition and Motivation in Duolingo
Davide Gemello
Beyond Standard Italian: Regional Accents, Dialects and the Myth of Neutral Pronunciation
Anna Ostojska
From A2 to Your First Novel
Terry Hsieh
Building a true multilingual society on Ilha Formosa: what can Taiwan learn from Paraguay’s Spanish-Guarani Bilingualism
Maddalena Mazzaferri
Languages and Art: beyond the ordinary.
Cristina Domènech Miret
It’s All Greek to Me… So I Asked ChatGPT: A Language Learning Experiment
Group photo
Lunch
Kyle Kuzman
The Science of Musical Language Education
Martin Di Maggio
The Arberesh Language of Southern Italy: Is it really a dialect of Albanian?
Felicitas Andermann
Linguistics for Lazy Language Learners
Yanjaa Westgate
World Memory Champion: Why You Should Stop Memorizing Vocabulary
Dr. Johan Vandewalle
Dead Languages or Living Skills? The Battle for the Modern Curriculum in Flemish Secondary Education
Judith Meyer
Deschooling Language-Learning
Speaker TBC
Presentation TBC
Closing Ceremony, Teach Yourself Raffle & Announcement for Polyglot Conference 2027
Richard simcott