Information about previous GLOW conferences and workshops are available below. Large thanks go to Luigi Rizzi for restoring the origins of GLOW.
| GLOW 48 | April 21-23, 2026 (workshop on April 20) | Siena & Florence, Italy | website |
| workshop: | Less documented languages in formal linguistics: empirical problems and theoretical perspectives | ||
| GLOW 47 | March 25-27, 2025 (workshops March 24, 28) | Frankfurt am Main & Göttingen, Germany | website |
| workshops: | I. (Universal) Paradigmatic Gaps II. Negation | ||
| no colloquium | 2024 | restructuring of GLOW | |
| GLOW 46 | April 12-14, 2023 (workshops April 11, 15) | Vienna & Graz, Austria | website |
| workshops: | I. Mismatched pronouns: specification discrepancies between pronominals and their morphosyntactic or semantic context II. Non-automatic alternations in phonology | ||
| GLOW 45 | April 27-29, 2022 (workshops April 26) | London, UK | website |
| workshops: | I. Typological generalizations and semantic theory | ||
| GLOW 44 | April 15–17, 2021 (online, due to COVID pandemic) | organized by the GLOW board | website |
| GLOW 43 | April 8–20, 2020 (online, due to covid pandemic) | Berlin, Germany | website |
| workshops: | I. Prosody in speech signal, perception and gestures II. Semantic Universals in the Modal and Attitudinal Domain III. Remarks: the Legacy | ||
| GLOW 42 | May 7–11, 2019 | Oslo, Norway | website |
| workshops: | I. Anaphora at the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface in endangered and understudied languages II. Rules and Learning Strategies in the Acquisition of Signed and Spoken Phonologies III. Generative Linguistics beyond Language: Shared Modules for Rhythm, Narration and Emotion across Domains | ||
| GLOW 41 | April 11-13, 2018 (workshops April 10, 14) | Budapest, Hungary | website |
| workshops: | I. Long-distance segmental phenomena II. Predication in relation to propositions and properties III. The grammar and pragmatics of interrogatives and their (special) uses IV. Sign Language Syntax and Linguistic Theory | ||
| GLOW 40 | March 15-17, 2017 (workshops March 14) | Leiden, The Netherlands | website |
| GLOW 39 | April 5-8, 2016 (workshops April 8) | Göttingen, Germany | website |
| GLOW 38 | April 15-18, 2015 (workshops April 18) | Paris, France | website archive (original) |
| workshops: | I. The implications of Computation and Learnability for Phonological Theory II. States and Events | ||
| GLOW 37 | April 2-4, 2014 (workshops April 5) | Brussels, Belgium | website archive (original) |
| workshops: | I. Understanding Possession II. Phonological Specification and Interface Interpretation | ||
| GLOW 36 | April 2-6, 2013 (workshops April 2, 6) | Lund, Sweden | website archive (original) |
| workshops: | I. Biolinguistics II. Syntactic variation and change III. Diachronic workings in phonological patterns IV. Acquisition of syntax in close varieties | ||
| GLOW 35 | March 28-30, 2012 (workshops March 27, 31) | Potsdam, Germany | |
| GLOW 34 | April 28-30, 2011 (workshops April 27, May 1) | Vienna, Austria | website archive (original) topic: How much syntax is there in grammar? |
| workshops: | I. Intervention effects from a semantic perspective II. Workshop on the phonological marking of focus and topic III. Identity in grammar | ||
| GLOW 33 | April 13-16, 2010 (workshops April 13) | Wrocław, Poland | website |
| GLOW 32 | April 16-18, 2009 (workshops April 15) | Nantes, France | website topic: On the Architecture of the Grammar: Y, if and how |
| GLOW 31 | March 26-28, 2008 | Newcastle, UK | website archive (original) |
| GLOW 30 | 2007 | Tromsø, Norway | |
| GLOW 29 | April 6-8, 2006 (workshops April 5) | Barcelona, Spain | |
| GLOW 28 | March 31-April 2, 2005 | Geneva, Switzerland | |
| GLOW 27 | April 19-21, 2004 (workshops April 18) | Thessaloniki, Greece | |
| GLOW 26 | April 9-11, 2003 (workshops April 12-13) | Lund, Sweden | topic: Division of Labor |
| GLOW 25 | 2002 | Amsterdam & Utrecht, The Netherlands | topic: Microvariation |
| GLOW 24 | April 8-11, 2001 | Braha & Oporto, Portugal | topic: Adjacency |
| GLOW 23 | April 16-19, 2000 | Vitoria & Bilbao, The Basque Country | topic: Derivations and Representations |
| GLOW 22 | 1999 | Berlin & Potsdam, Germany | topic: Universals |
| GLOW 21 | 1998 | Tilburg, The Netherlands | topic: Features |
| GLOW 22 | 1997 | Rabat, Morocco | topic: Interfaces |
| GLOW 21 | 1996 | Athens, Greece | topic: (A)Symmetry |
| GLOW 20 | 1995 | Tromsø, Norway | topic: Primitives |
| GLOW 19 | 1994 | Vienna, Austria | topic: Directionality |
| GLOW 18 | 1993 | Lund, Sweden | topic: Dependencies |
| GLOW 17 | 1992 | Lisbon, Portugal | |
| GLOW 16 | 1991 | Leiden, The Netherlands | topic: Heads |
| GLOW 15 | 1990 | Cambridge/London, UK | topic: Levels of Representation |
| GLOW 14 | 1989 | Utrecht, The Netherlands | topic: Setting Parameters |
| GLOW 13 | 1988 | Budapest, Hungary | topic: Locality |
| GLOW 12 | 1987 | Venice, Italy | topic: Constituent structure |
| GLOW 11 | 1986 | Girona/Barcelona, Spain | topic: From rules to principles |
| GLOW 10 | 1985 | Brussels, Belgium | topic: Parametric typology |
| GLOW 9 | 1984 | Copenhagen, Denmark | topic: Ordering of rules, principles, and components |
| GLOW 8 | 1983 | York, UK | topic: Levels of representation in linguistic theory |
| GLOW 7 | 1982 | Paris, France | topic: The representation of dependencies |
| GLOW 6 | 1981 | Göttingen, Germany | topic: Parameters and the Projection problem |
| GLOW 5 | 1980 | Nijmegen, The Netherlands | topic: Modular approaches to linguistic problems |
| GLOW 4 | 1979 | Pisa, Italy | topic: Theory of Markedness |
| GLOW 3 | 1978 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | topic: Local processes |
| Workshop on unbounded dependencies | 1977 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Green ideas blown up | 1976 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
We have put online all information that was available to us. Any additional (missing) information you might have is welcome! Please send to the GLOW webmaster.