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  • 16 June 2026, Computational Linguistics Seminar, David Graus

    Date & Time: Tuesday 16 June 2026, 15:30
    Speaker: David Graus (University of Amsterdam)
    Location: LAB42, Amsterdam Science Park 942, Amsterdam, plus live streaming on Zoom.

    TBA

    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.

  • 17 June 2026, Ed Zalta: How to Ground Semantics in Higher-Order Metaphysics, Ed Zalta

    Date & Time: Wednesday 17 June 2026, 16:00
    Speaker: Ed Zalta (Stanford)
    Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107

    It is our great pleasure to announce a talk by Ed Zalta (Stanford) taking place at the ILLC. Ed is the creator of the famous Standford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy and well-known for his abstract object theory. He is a very accessible person who loves to talk to students, so this should be a great opportunity for our students. 

    Abstract: In this talk, I show how the primitive notions of semantic theories, and the principles stipulated in the semantics to govern these notions, can be systematically defined and derived in object theory (OT). For example, philosophers and logicians have postulated possible worlds, impossible worlds, situations, possibilities, truthmaker states, HYPE states, plural entities, etc. as part of their semantic interpretation of natural language. They also assert axioms that govern these primitive entities. In each case, I show that in object theory, one can define the entities postulated in object-theoretic terms, and then derive the axioms stipulated as theorems of object theory.  I focus particular on the two new examples of this analysis: truthmaker states (Fine) and the possibilities used in possibility semantics (Humberstone, van Benthem, and Holliday). 

    For more information, contact Thomas Schindler at .

  • 18 June 2026, FGw invites: Building readers matchmaking event

    Date & Time: Thursday 18 June 2026, 10:00-13:00
    Deadline: Wednesday 10 June 2026

    The Empowering Language group and the Humanities Venture Lab are organising this workshop to bring together colleagues from the Faculty of Humanities working on or interested in research and impact projects that promote reading.

    For more information, see https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/events/2026/06/the-promotion-of-reading.html or contact Sible Andringa at .

  • 19 June 2026, Computational Linguistics Seminar, Andrea de Varda

    Date: Friday 19 June 2026
    Speaker: Andrea de Varda (MIT)
    Location: LAB42, Amsterdam Science Park 942, Amsterdam, plus live streaming on Zoom.

    TBA

    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.

  • 19 June 2026, ILLC Current Affairs Meeting & ILLC Colloquium

    Date & Time: Friday 19 June 2026, 15:30-18:30
    For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/ILLCColloquium/Summer-2026/ or contact Aybüke Özgün at .

  • 22 June 2026, Nordic Online Logic Seminar, Leon Horsten

    Date & Time: Monday 22 June 2026, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Leon Horsten
    Title: Axioms for Arbitrary Object Theory
    Location: Zoom

    The Nordic Online Logic Seminar (NOL Seminar) is organised monthly over Zoom, with expository talks on topics of interest for the broader logic community. The seminar is open for professional or aspiring logicians and logic aficionados worldwide.

    See the announcement for the next talk below. If you wish to receive the Zoom ID and password for it, as well as further announcements, please subscribe here:https://listserv.gu.se/sympa/subscribe/nordiclogic.

    For more information, see https://scandinavianlogic.org/2026-05-27-NOL-Seminar-Leon-Horsten.html or contact Val Goranko at .

  • (New) 22 June 2026, NihiL Seminar, Hugh Reilly

    Date & Time: Monday 22 June 2026, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Hugh Reilly (ILLC & St. Andrews)
    Title: What Iffiness (joint talk with MLC)
    Location: Faculty Room II, Philosophy Department, Oude Turfmarkt 141-143, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/nihil/seminar or contact Søren Brinck Knudstorp at .

  • 24 June 2026, The Nexxxt Step: event for internationals

    Date & Time: Wednesday 24 June 2026, 15:30
    Location: IN Amsterdam, Strawinskylaan 1767, 1077 XX Amsterdam
    Target audience: international professionals and their partners

    Connection to a place comes more easily when you connect with its people. The Nexxxt Step is a new event to help internationals settle in. There are two sessions coming up: Thursday, 28 May  and Wednesday, 24 June.

    The event includes a guided session to help participants identify a next step they can take towards feeling more at home.

    For more information, see https://www.iamsterdam.com/en/business/calendar/events/all/the-nexxxt-step or contact .

  • 29 June - 3 July 2026, Advances in Modal Logic 2026 (AiML 2026), Amsterdam [NL]

    Date: 29 June - 3 July 2026
    Location: Amsterdam [NL]
    Deadline: Friday 20 February 2026

    Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting the state of the art in modal logic and its various applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. AiML 2026 is organized by the ILLC.  Information about the AiML series can be obtained at http://www.aiml.net.

    For more information, see here or at https://events.illc.uva.nl/aiml2026/ or contact .

  • 3 - 14 August 2026, 37th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2026), Prague (Czech Republic)

    Date: 3 - 14 August 2026
    Location: Prague (Czech Republic)
    Deadline: Wednesday 1 October 2025

    Under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI), the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) runs every year. Except for 2021, when the school was virtual, it runs in a different European country each year. It takes place over two weeks in the summer, hosts approximately 50 different courses at levels that run from foundational to introductory to advanced, and attracts around 400 participants from all over the world. In 2026, ESSLLI returns to Prague after exactly 30 years.

    The main focus of ESSLLI is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation, with special emphasis on human linguistic and cognitive ability. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, and Language and Logic. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited evening lectures.

    For more information, see here or at https://2026.esslli.eu/ or contact Thomas Icard at .

  • 25 September 2026, ILLC Current Affairs Meeting & ILLC Colloquium

    Date & Time: Friday 25 September 2026, 15:30-17:30
    Location: ILLC Common Room F1.21, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/ILLCColloquium/Autumn-2026/ or contact Aybüke Özgün at .

  • 6 October 2026, ILLC Staff meeting 10/2026

    Date & Time: Tuesday 6 October 2026, 16:00-17:00
    Location: ILLC Common Room F1.21, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, contact the ILLC Office at .
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    4 December 2026, Valedictory lecture Henkjan Honing, prof. dr. Henkjan Honing

    Date & Time: Friday 4 December 2026, 16:30-17:30
    Speaker: prof. dr. Henkjan Honing
    Location: Aula der Universiteit, Singel 411, Amsterdam
    For more information, contact Peter van Ormondt at .

  • 11 December 2026, ILLC Current Affairs Meeting & ILLC Colloquium

    Date & Time: Friday 11 December 2026, 15:30-17:30
    Location: ILLC Common Room F1.21, Science Park 107, Amsterdam
    For more information, see https://www.illc.uva.nl/ILLCColloquium/Winter-2026 or contact Aybüke Özgün at .

  • 14 December 2026, DIP Colloquium, Adrian Brasoveanu

    Date & Time: Monday 14 December 2026, 16:00-17:30
    Speaker: Adrian Brasoveanu (UC Santa Cruz)
    Location: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107
    For more information, see https://projects.illc.uva.nl/FSPL/DIP-Colloquium/event/35292/Adrian-Brasoveanu-UC-Santa-Cruz-TBA.

  • ILLC Heidag 2027

    The annual ILLC Heidag will be held on on the 29th of January 2027, starting at 09.30 and running until 17.00. Please fill out this form to help up plan for the event.

    What is a ''heidag''? It is a meeting during which the management and/or employees of an organization meet and discuss in an informal atmosphere outside their familiar working environment, especially about subjects that transcend daily practice.