10th Conference of the ISGS

9 July 2025 - 11 July 2025

Radboud University Nijmegen

Conference

The MPI, Donders Institute and Centre of Language Studies are excited to welcome you to the 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), taking place from 9 to 11 July 2025 at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Nijmegen has long been a hub for multimodal language studies, with a rich history spanning over three decades. We look forward to honoring this long tradition as the host of ISGS 2025, celebrating the field’s advancements and looking with great excitement toward the future.

Recent technological advances have launched us into a new era of multimodal language research. Innovations in computer vision, virtual reality, motion capture, eye-tracking, large language models, and robotics hold great promise for quantifying the properties of visual language and uncovering the relationships between motion and meaning across diverse social contexts, languages, and speakers. ISGS 2025 aims to unite researchers from various fields and perspectives who employ traditional and novel approaches to deepen our knowledge about sign language, gesture use, (neuro)processing, acquisition and learning, and social interaction, among others.

Abstract submission, registration and programme to be announced.

Keynotes

Executive Committee

Asli Ozyurek, Judith Holler, Ezgi Mamus, Sharice Clough and Beyza Sumer

Organizing Committee

Anita Slonimska, Hans Rutger Bosker, Hasan Dikyuva, Patrick Louis Rohrer, Linda Drijvers, Jonas Noelle, Ercenur Unal, David Peeters, Laura J. Speed, Maryam Ebrahimi, Brigit van Loon, Yaren Arabaci, Patrick Leijzer, Nicola Rijzewijk and Susanne Brouwer.