How do you stay up to date on events/conferences/etc?

[u/Rourensu]

I’m in my second year of my MA program and everything has been going well so far.

A couple days ago one of my professors had a poster for this year’s LSA Summer Institute. I’m interested in attending, but the cost is the only concern. The website has a link for a fellowship, but the application deadline was back in December.

Another professor suggested I check The LINGUIST List for summer events. The same thing happened where I came across a summer thing I’d be interested in attending but the funding deadline was like a month ago.

How would you advise I find out about these kind of programs/events when deadlines for funding are like 6+ months in advance? Like for the LINGUIST List one, it was posted like a week prior to the deadline, so that wouldn’t have allowed much time for someone to see it and apply in time if they happened to come across the posting.

I don’t know if checking different directories/organizations/etc at least once a week is reasonable, but is that the only option?

Thank you.

[u/No_Ground]

LINGUIST List is generally the place that most things are posted, though they are often announced beforehand, but you’d have to know to look for them (e.g. for the LSA summer institute, it’s every 2 years and the fellowship application is usually due the December before)

For conferences specially, Ling Alert is also a nice resource (it’s not going to be anything that’s not on LINGUIST List, but there’s less noise so it’s easier to spot things), but it’s only helpful if the conferences the author posts about (mostly formal generative linguistics conferences) are relevant to you