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  • 5 - 7 August 2026, WorldPride Conference: Contribute to the World Pride 2026, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam [NL]

    Date: 5 - 7 August 2026
    Location: Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam [NL]

    The World Pride is calling for you! The WPC programming is developed with input from activists and Pride organizers all over the World and overseen by our Advisory Board. Four main themes will be central: Rights & Governance, Health & Well-being, Legacies & Prospects, Resilience & Liberation. These themes can be approached from every perspective: Gender, Sex and Sexuality, Trans, non-binary and non-conforming identities, Sexual orientation spectrum and fluidity, Intersex awareness and body diversity. 

    Please reach out to Pride Amsterdam or Boy Menist via email if you are interested in contributing.

    The World Pride is calling for you! The WPC programming is developed with input from activists and Pride organizers all over the World and overseen by our Advisory Board. Four main themes will be central: Rights & Governance, Health & Well-being, Legacies & Prospects, Resilience & Liberation. These themes can be approached from every perspective: Gender, Sex and Sexuality, Trans, non-binary and non-conforming identities, Sexual orientation spectrum and fluidity, Intersex awareness and body diversity. 

    Please reach out via email if you are interested in contributing.

    For more information, see https://pride.amsterdam/en/contact/ or contact Boy Menist (UvA) at , or Pride Amsterdam at .
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    (New) Théo Delemazure wins Dissertation Award of the French Association for AI

    We are proud to announce that Théo Delemazure, postdoc in the Computational Social Choice Group at the ILLC, won the 2026 Dissertation Award of the French Association for Artificial Intelligence (AFIA) for his PhD thesis defended at Université Paris Dauphine/PSL in 2025.

    Théo's thesis uses both mathematical and data-driven methods to show that making seemingly minor tweaks to how people's preferences are collected during voting in political elections can result in significant improvements regarding the fairness, representativeness, and efficiency of political decisions by better accounting for the complexities of actual voter preferences. During the first week of July, Théo presented his findings during a keynote address at the 19th French National Conference on AI (the Plate-Forme Intelligence Artificielle) in Arras, France. His thesis was earlier recognised as a runner-up for the prestigious Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.

    For more information, see https://afia.asso.fr/le-prix-de-these-afia/.

  • (New) Marieke Schouwstra wins an NWO Open Competition L

    The ILLC's Marieke Schouwstra and Eva van Lier (UvA/ACLC) have won the NWO Open Competition for their project You won the lottery… NOT! Evolution, comprehension and structure of languages with late negation. Read the abstract below.

    'Every human language employs a "negator" to express that something is not the case. Most languages place this negator before the verb; placing it afterward is relatively rare. Linguists theorize that negator-after-verb  is uncommon because it forces the brain to reinterpret a sentence’s meaning upon hearing the negator, though scientific proof for this claim is lacking. This project investigates late-negation languages using various methods, such as brain scanning of speakers of Cha’palaa, a late-negation language of Ecuador, and studying artificial language learning. By analyzing how humans process late negation, researchers aim to determine how cognition shapes language structure.'

    For more information, see https://www.nwo.nl/en/researchprogrammes/open-competition-ssh/granted-projects.

  • Qian Chen received the Best Poster Award at CACML 2026

    Qian Chen, a PhD candidate at the ILLC–Tsinghua Joint Research Center, received the Best Poster Award at the Chinese Annual Conference on Mathematical Logic 2026.

    For more information, see https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/info/1175/126672.htm or contact Nick Bezhanishvili at .

  • ESSLLI 2026 - Second Call for Participation (Early-bird extension)

    The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is a yearly recurring event, organized under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), and has been running since 1989. The ESSLLI Summer School provides an interdisciplinary setting in which courses and workshops are offered in logic, linguistics and computer science, also from wider scientific, historical, and philosophical perspectives.

    Registration: The early-bird registration deadline has been extended to June 15th

    For more information, see https://2026.esslli.eu/registration/registration.html or contact Dušan Variš at .

  • Best Paper Award by Junior Researchers

    The ILLC is proud to announce that a paper by Bastiaan Laarakker, Daniël Otten, and Benno van den Berg, titled Constructing (Co)inductive Types via Large Sizes, has won the Best Paper Award by Junior Researchers. The prize will be awarded at the International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction in Lisbon in July 2026.

    For more information, see https://fscd2026.github.io/awards/.