47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley, March 23-26, 2016

Membership in ACAL

In order to present a paper or poster at ACAL 47, you must register for the conference and be a member of the Association of Contemporary African Linguistics (ACAL). To pay ACAL membership fees, please go to the ACAL organization website. Membership fees are collected by the ACAL organization, not the conference organizers.

Presence of authors

In order for a paper to be presented, either the author or at least one co-author must be present. If this is not going to be the case, please notify us as soon as possible as the oral presentation will have to be removed from the program.

Registration process

To register for ACAL 47, please follow this link to the registration website. Debit or credit card payment is accepted. If you do not have a card (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Diners Club, American Express), then you cannot register via the online registration system. Additionally, the banking gateway that is used by the registration system cannot process credit card payments from about 25 countries. If you do not see your country on the drop-down menu, then you will be unable to register via this system. Please contact Paula Floro (floro@berkeley.edu, 510-643-7623) for an alternate method of registration and payment. Registration rates are:

Early registration, by February 15:

Regular: $70
Students and participants from African institutions: $35

Regular registration, after February 15:

Regular: $95
Students and participants from African institutions: $50

Banquet registration, deadline March 7: $40

The banquet is Thursday, March 24, 6pm-10pm. You will be asked whether or not you would like to register for the banquet during the conference registration process.