NWAV-AP5 will be held at the University of Queensland on 1-3 February 2018. An optional Masterclass with Penny Eckert on 31 January 2018 will be run in conjunction with NWAV-AP5.
The theme of NWAV-AP5 is ‘Language contact and variation’.
http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/nwav-ap5/
Call for Papers:
We invite papers on variation in contact-induced change, the role of variation in language evolution, and variation in contact languages, as well as other quantitative papers on linguistic variation in languages of the Asia-Pacific region.
Please submit a one page abstract (anonymous, 12 point font, inc. references) via Easy Chair by 31 August 2017:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nwavap5