Information about keynote speakers from past conferences is available below:
- UALC 2026: Bridging Worlds: Resilience in Multilingual and Multicultural Spaces – Thomas Klingler, Chantelle Warner, and Victoria Saramago
- UALC 2025: Beyond Borders – Glenn Levine-West, Javier Uriarte, and Amina Weira
- UALC 2024: Emerging Trends in Language, Literature, and Culture: Beyond the Pandemic – Monique Ilboudo and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio – Read more
- UALC 2023: I Have an Accent – Lisa Parkes and Roger Fopa
- UALC 2022: A Reunion of Languages – Rosi Song and Frieda Ekotto
- UALC 2021: Embracing Language in a Changing World – Nathalie Hester, Kevin Rottet, and Barbara Zecchi
- UALC 2020: Empowering Languages and Cultures – John Maddox and Sandro Sessarego
- UALC 2019: The Words that Shape Us: Language, Culture and Identity – Manuel Díaz-Campos and Esther Allen
- UALC 2018: Crossroads: The Intersection of Language and Identity – David Basilico
- UALC 2017: Exchanging Ideas and Experiences Through Language – Bill VanPatten and Rubén Gallo
- UALC 2016: The Many Tongues of Talk and Tale – John Lipski and Karen Elizabeth Bishop
- AMLC 2015: Global Metamorphosis – Dwight Atkinson
- AMLC 2014: Converging Cultures: Languages, Literatures, & Identity – Claire Kramsch
- AMLC 2013: Redefining Borders: Bridging the Gap between Languages, Literatures, and Cultures – Hafid Gafaiti and Thomas Deveny
- AMLC 2012: Negotiations of Meaning: Language, Genre, Time, Space – Osvaldo Cleger
- AMLC 2010: Transnational Topics in Language and Literature