# International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics

The International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL) is an academic conference that focuses on research in Austroasiatic languages and linguistics.

## History

The first ICAAL conference was held at the University of Hawaiʻi in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States on the first week of January in 1973. After 1979, conferences were no longer held for over 25 years as much of Southeast Asia was inaccessible to Western researchers during many of those years.
On August 30, 2001, in Périgueux, France, interest in reviving ICAAL was rekindled when Gérard Diffloth, Michel Ferlus, and George van Driem met to discuss the history and potential future of ICAAL. They then went on to host the ICAAL 3 Pilot Meeting in June 2006 at Siem Reap, Cambodia, which was funded by the Dutch Research Council and the École française d'Extrême-Orient. The ICAAL 3 academic conference was held at the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute in Pune, India in November 2007, and conferences have since been held biannually. In 2011, ICAAL 5 was scheduled to be held from November 9–11, 2011, at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, but the conference was cancelled due to the 2011 Thailand floods. ICAAL 5 was thus postponed to 2013 and held at the Australian National University.

## List of meetings

A full list of meetings, including full conferences, workshops, and other meetings, is as follows.
| Year | Event | Host | City | Country | Dates | Notes |
| 1973 | ICAAL 1 | University of Hawaiʻi | Honolulu | United States | January (first week) | |
| 1978 | ICAAL 2 | Central Institute of Indian Languages | Mysore | India | December | |
| 1979 | Symposium on Austroasiatic Linguistics | International People's College | Helsingør | Denmark | October 24–26 | |
| 2006 | ICAAL Pilot Meeting | École Française d'Extrême-Orient | Siem Reap | Cambodia | June 28–29 | |
| 2007 | ICAAL 3 | Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute | Pune | India | November 26–28 | |
| 2009 | ICAAL 4 | Mahidol University | Bangkok | Thailand | October 29–30 | |
| 2013 | ICAAL 5 | Australian National University | Canberra | Australia | September | postponed from 2011 |
| 2015 | ICAAL 6 | Royal Academy of Cambodia and Center for Khmer Studies | Siem Reap | Cambodia | July 29–31 | |
| 2016 | Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective workshop | Chiang Mai University | Chiang Mai | Thailand | September 5–7 | |
| 2017 | ICAAL 7 | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | Kiel | Germany | September 29 – October 1 | |
| 2019 | ICAAL 8 | Chiang Mai University | Chiang Mai | Thailand | August 29–31 | |
| 2021 | ICAAL 9 | Lund University | Lund | Sweden | November 18–19 | held online |
| 2022 | ICAAL 10 | Living Tongues Institute | Salem, Oregon | United States | November 30–December 2 | held online |
| 2023 | ICAAL 11 | Chiang Mai University | Chiang Mai | Thailand | October 26–27 | held online |
| 2024 | ICAAL 12 | Payap University | Chiang Mai | Thailand | October 23–25 | hybrid (in-person and online) |
| 2025 | ICAAL 13 | | Udon Thani | Thailand | | hybrid (in-person and online) |

## Proceedings

Conference proceedings:
* Second International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (SICAL). (Archived mss)
* Papers from the Helsingør symposium on Austroasiatic linguistics and literature. (Archived mss)
* Nagaraja, K.S., and Kashyap Mankodi. 2007. Austroasiatic linguistics: proceedings of Third International Conference of Austroasiatic Linguistics, November 26–28, 2007. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. ISBN 81-7342-174-9
* Ring, Hiram; Rau, Felix, eds. (2018). "Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics". University of Hawaiʻi Press. ISSN 1836-6821.