Morana Lukač, PhD

There are a number of firsts associated with the 24th Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS24) in Ghent (13-16 July 2022), including it being for many the first post-pandemic in-person conference (🙋‍♀️). Ghent was also the first city to host the Sociolinguistics Symposium on the European mainland in 2002 (SS14). The two-decade anniversary of the city’s host status was echoed in some of the colloquia titles, which are a testament to the fact that collaborations and conversations amo