11th Language Creation Conference: Pre-Conference Welcome Social

The 11th Language Creation Conference (LCC11), hosted by the Maryland Language Science Center from April 11-13, 2025, invites attendees to a welcome reception, lecture and artistic showcase.

Following opening remarks from Dr. Shevaun Lewis of the Language Science Center, John Scott of GERS will present a talk for the “conlang curious” titled "(De)Constructing Culture Through Constructed Languages: U-Boots in Space, Decolonizing Our Fantasies, and Transgressing Taboo on Naboo." The presentation will explore the intellectual value of constructed languages and 900 years of interactions between artificial language construction, German artistic and intellectual culture and modern film.

Scott created the Germanic conlang Baldung for the 2021 Netflix occult-horror series Archive 81 and has designed and taught a university course on constructed languages that examines linguistic diversity and conlangs as cultural-historical artifacts in politics, literature, cinema, and music. At the University of Maryland, he created a conlang for the 2024 “Remember When” session of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures’ foreign language instructor orientation.

After the talk, fellow conlangers Eric Barker, Margaret Ransdell-Green, Rylan Wetsell, Isabel Gardener, and Ignatius Crypps (also known as Lichen) will present an artistic program featuring music, poetry and storytelling.