The eighth edition of the international Colloque Bisannuel sur la Diachronie de l’Anglais (Biennial Conference on the Diachrony of English, CBDA-8) will take place in Tours from May 22nd to May 23rd 2025, hosted by the Université de Tours (Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique, équipe VETD-VO) and organised in collaboration with the Université de Lorraine-Metz (laboratoire InterDisciplinarité dans les Études Anglophones) and the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches sur les Langues et la Pensée). The objective of the conference is to provide colleagues working on the history of English, in all fields and from all theoretical perspectives, with an opportunity to present their work and a forum within which to discuss current issues in English diachronic linguistics.

We are delighted to announce that the plenary speakers at this year's conference will be Richard Ingham from the University of Westminster (Great Britain), and Aude Mairey from Sorbonne University (France). Richard Ingham will be giving the second Xavier Dekeyser Memorial Lecture.

Organising committee (Université de Tours) : Alexandre Etcheheguy, Sylvain Gatelais, Oxana Kharlamenko, Élisa Marcadet, Ileana Sasu, Fabienne Toupin

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Our former keynote speakers include: Olga Fischer (Amiens, 2013), David Denison (Troyes, 2015), Marion Elenbaas (Tours, 2017), Hubert Cuyckens (Amiens, 2019), Ayumi Miura (2023)