The Society for Text & Discourse is proud to announce its 2024 annual meeting to be held July 17-19, 2024 in Lewis Towers at the Water Tower Campus of Loyola University Chicago. Lewis Towers is located at 111 E. Pearson Street in downtown Chicago, IL, USA on the “Magnificent Mile”. We invite the submission of proposals for individual papers and posters to present original research on text and discourse processing, representation, and analysis.

The Society for Text & Discourse is an international society of researchers who investigate all aspects of text and discourse. The purpose of the Society is to foster and promote excellence in research, enhance communication among researchers in different disciplines, and contribute to the education and professional development of those in the field or entering the field. For researchers who are new to the Society, the range of topics that are generally presented at the conference can be seen by looking at past programs.

The 2024 conference is planned to be held with in-person presentations and poster sessions. We are hoping to accommodate remote attendance for at least some of the spoken presentations as well as an asynchronous virtual poster session for members who cannot travel to the conference. In addition to plenary addresses by the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award and the Tom Trabasso Young Investigator Award recipients, we are also planning a celebration of the contributions of Walter Kintsch as a focal part of the program.