AmericaLex-S Inaugural Conference

The AmericaLex Inaugural Conference: “Contemporary Perspectives in Lexicography” will be held October 20-25, 2023 at the University of São Paulo (USP) in the city of São Paulo, state of São Paulo, Brazil.

The purpose of the event is to establish the Lexicography Association of South, Central, Mexico and Caribbean America - AmericaLex-S and create a network of integration between lexicographers, scholars, professors, students, editors and other interested professionals, in order to encourage the production and scientific and technological dissemination within the scope of Lexicography and related areas. AmericaLex-S's inaugural conference will be the first and important step that will pave the way for the generation and exchange of scientific knowledge through cooperation and partnerships in studies and research involving more than 560 languages in the region.

The creation of the Lexicography Association for the Americas, South, Central, Caribbean and Mexico and its Inaugural Conference is a joint initiative of academics and professionals from different universities and publishing houses and from other Lex Associations and from GlobaLex, the Lexicography Constellation that unites all they.

The AmericaLex-S initiative was launched in 2020 and assumed by a founding committee composed of 16 researchers, among these 10 professors and researchers from Brazilian universities who work in Graduate Programs in the states of São Paulo, Mato Grosso and Santa Catarina and the Official establishment of the association will take place at the AmericaLex-S Inaugural Conference at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, October 20-25, 2023.