The 23th annual meeting of the Association of Portuguese and Spanish-Lexified Creoles (ACBLPE) (https://www.acblpe.com/en) will be held on 9-11 September 2025 in the city of Mindelo (São Vicente Island, Republic of Cape Verde), in partnership with the University of Cape Verde (UniCV), which will host the event.

We welcome proposals dealing with Portuguese- and/or Spanish-based Creoles (i.e. the main research topic of the ACBLPE) as well as with language contact involving Portuguese and/or Spanish in any part of the world. Given the environment in which the meeting will take place in 2025, we especially encourage proposals related to Ibero-Romance-based Creoles and varieties of Portuguese spoken in Africa, for example in their connection with education and language policies or with various aspects of social ecology. Accepted talks will have an estimated duration of 30 minutes (20 minutes for oral presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion).

Abstracts should be written in Portuguese, Spanish, French, English or German, with a limit of 500 words, excluding references and examples, and sent to acblpe.mindelo.2025@gmail.com, in both Word and PDF, with the format: title – summary – (examples [if too long to be inserted in the text]) – references. Do not include your name and affiliation in the abstract itself. The subject of the email should contain “Abstract ACBLPE 2025”. In the body of the email, please include the following data: author(s), academic affiliation(s), professional status (professor, researcher, student…), email contact(s), title of the abstract.

Important dates
Deadline for submitting abstracts: January 19, 2025
Deadline for notification of the results of the abstract evaluation: February 15, 2025

About Mindelo
The 2024 ACBLPE annual meeting will take place in the city of Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente in Cape Verde, an archipelago of significant linguistic interest, where Portuguese (the official language of the country) coexists with the Cape Verdean language, spoken by the vast majority of the population. The country will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its independence in 2025.

In addition to the Conference itself
On September 8, 2025, a university-level course on Creole languages (aimed at master’s and doctoral students in particular) will be organized in cooperation with UniCV. The organizers of the meeting also intend to organize a guided tour of the neighboring island of Santo Antão the day after the meeting (September 12, 2025), so that participants may get to get acquainted with the cultural and environmental characteristics of this island, whose own linguistic variant still remains under-researched.

Organization committee
Isabelle Alanièce (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – Paris)
Ronny Beckert (Universität Heidelberg)
Miguel Gutiérrez Maté (Universität Augsburg)
Nicolas Quint (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – Paris)
Magali Sansonetti (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – Paris)
Dominika Swolkien (Universidade de Cabo Verde)
Karina Tavares-Moreira (Universidade de Cabo Verde)
Eliane Vieira-Semedo (Universidade de Cabo Verde)