ST&D 2025: 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse Padua, Italy, July 9-11, 2025

Conference website	https://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2025/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=std2025
Submission deadline	February 1, 2025

2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse  

The Society for Text & Discourse is proud to announce its 2025 annual meeting to be held July 9-11, 2025 in the building of Biology and Biomedicine, called “Fiore di Botta”, via del Pescarotto 8, Padova (close to Psychology buildings). We invite the submission of proposals for individual papers and posters to present original research on text and discourse processing, representation, and analysis.

The Society for Text & Discourse is an international society of researchers who investigate all aspects of text and discourse. The purpose of the Society is to foster and promote excellence in research, enhance communication among researchers in different disciplines, and contribute to the education and professional development of those in the field or entering the field. For researchers who are new to the Society, the range of topics that are generally presented at the conference can be seen by looking at past programs: https://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/past-conferences/

The conference is planned to be held with in-person presentations and poster sessions. We are hoping to accommodate remote attendance for at least some of the spoken presentations as well as an asynchronous virtual poster session for members who cannot travel to the conference. In addition to plenary addresses by the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award and the Tom Trabasso Young Investigator Award recipients.

**The submission page will open on November 1, 2024. The submission deadline will be February 1st, 2025**

Presentation Formats and Submission Options

ST&D 2025 submission options include the following:

1. Spoken Presentations: To be presented in person
2. Poster Presentations: To be presented in person 
3. Remote Presentations: To be presented in an asynchronous virtual session

Proposals for all of the above are due by February 1, 2024 via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=std2024

Call for Symposia or Discussions

Proposals for special sessions should include a set of in-person presentations or suggestion of a topic for a panel or roundtable discussion on a predetermined theme or issues important to the Society.

Proposals or suggestions for special sessions (title, short description, list of potential contributors) should be submitted by email to std2025 @ easychair.org by January 2, 2025. The Program Committee will provide feedback by mid-January, in time to submit individual proposals. 

Submission Format for Spoken, Poster, and Remote Presentations

When submitting in EasyChair, authors will be prompted to enter or indicate: 

1. Author information (Name, Affiliation, Country and Email addresses for all authors)
2. Presentation Title (Maximum length 255 characters)
3. A 75-word abstract (To appear in the program)
4. Keywords (A list of at least three)
5. Submission preference (1. In person – Consider for Poster or Spoken, 2. In person - Poster only, 3. Remote)  
6. Award eligibility 

In addition, authors will be prompted to upload a pdf file containing:

1. A 1200-word summary of the presentation with the title
2. A reference section (not included in word count)  

The summary should have a title but no author information. It should contain basic sections including a short theoretical introduction/framework, methodological overview (describing quantitative, qualitative, or mixed approach), key findings, and a brief discussion. The summary will be submitted as a pdf file and should be saved using a generic name (e.g. summary.pdf) and not author names. Proposals that exceed the length specified will not be reviewed. 

 

Submission-based Awards

Each year, the Society for Text & Discourse recognizes excellence in research for projects primarily conducted by recent doctorates, doctoral candidates, and graduate students, or projects conducted by or significantly supported by undergraduate students. To be eligible for consideration for one of these awards, submitters must indicate the award eligibility during submission. Projects may only be considered for a single award category. Eligible proposals will first be evaluated for quality by the Program Review Committee, and the highest reviewed proposals will then be sent to the ST&D Awards Committee for final consideration. Award finalists may be asked to submit additional information regarding their submission. As a final step, dissertation advisors and/or research supervisors will be contacted by the Awards Committee to ensure that finalists have met all qualifications for the award. Recipients of each award receive a certificate and a $150 award check.

• Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award: The Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award (JAOYSA) honors the memory of Jason Albrecht, a promising young text and discourse researcher who passed away in 1997. This award recognizes an outstanding conference presentation based on a doctoral dissertation. A submission is eligible for the Albrecht award if it is based on work from a dissertation, and the defense date of that dissertation falls between July 7, 2024 and July 7, 2025. Eligible candidates will be asked by the award committee to submit a copy of their dissertation for consideration that the work is the student’s intellectual contribution.

• Graduate Student Research Award: This award recognizes quality in predissertation work that is predominately that of a graduate student. Accordingly, the graduate student must be first author on the conference presentation. For multi-author papers, eligible candidates will be asked to submit a statement with a summary of the contribution of each author to the project.

• Undergraduate Student Research Award: This award recognizes quality in work that is predominately that of an undergraduate student. Accordingly, the undergraduate student must be first author on the conference presentation. For multi-author papers, eligible candidates will be asked to submit a statement with a summary of the contribution of each author to the project.

• Equity and Diversity in Text and Discourse Travel Award: The purpose of the Equity and Diversity in Text and Discourse Award is to promote diversity within the Society for Text and Discourse by supporting research on text and discourse related to diversity as well as research by individuals from underrepresented groups. See here for details. 

See here for a list of past award winners

 

Walter Kintsch Travel Awards    

Awards will be made available to support student travel. Applications will be solicited after the submission deadline to all student presenters. All students will be eligible to apply. Priority is typically given to students who are presenting, and students without sufficient funding from other sources.  

 

Conference Registration Rates

ST&D is committed to making the 2025 conference accessible to all members. Registration rates will be forthcoming, however current ST&D members will receive a significant discount. Click here to become a member of ST&D

Conference registration rates will be announced when the program is released in the spring of 2025.  Links to the registration system and the program will be posted on the conference website, http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2025/ . Members and corresponding authors on submissions will receive a notice directly.

 

 ST&D 2025 Conference Organizing Committee

• Barbara Carretti (co-chair)
• Lucia Mason (co-chair)
• Barbara Arfé
• Chiara Meneghetti
• Gerardo Pellegrino
• Eleonora Pizzigallo
• Angelica Ronconi
• Scott Hinze (ST&D Secretary and conference webmaster)

Contact

Questions about ST&D 2025, this call for papers, submissions, or the submission process should be emailed to std2025 @ easychair.org  

For more information on the 2025 Annual Meeting including information on accommodations, please see http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2025.  We encourage everyone to make arrangements early because Padua is a touristic city not far from Venice.