The 8th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics (CIEL-8) will be held August 8-10, 2016 (note the change in date) at Indiana University, Bloomington. Registration will begin in the Spring (date to be announced). Previous CIEL conferences have been held in Guangzhou, Tianjin, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Xiamen, and last year again in Tianjin, and have consolidated a platform for international interdisciplinary exchange on Evolutionary Linguistics, thereby promoting the development of this field of research. CIEL-8 will be the first time the conference is held outside of China, and Indiana University is honored to be the host for 2016. We invite all scholars interested in language and evolution to attend.
Conference Dates：August 8-10, 2016
Conference Venue: Indiana University
Conference Themes:
- Language as a complex adaptive system
- Language and population evolution
- Diachronic and synchronic study of language
- Dialect formation and evolution
- Archaeological and fossil evidence of language evolution
- Vertical and horizontal transmission of language
- Language and the brain
- Animal communication and human language
- Other language-related research
Honorary Chair: William S-Y. Wang
Chair of Organizing Committee: P. Thomas Schoenemann
Secretary of Organizing Committee: Gang Peng
Members of the Local Organizing Committee: Robert Port, Colin Allen, Charles Chien-Jer Lin