[CfP] ELS 2026, the 19th European Lisp Symposium

[Didier Verna]

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19th European Lisp Symposium

Call for Papers

May 11-12 2026
Skład Długa, Kraków, Poland

https://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/2026
Sponsored by Keepit
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Important Dates
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- Submission deadline: Mar 15 2026
- Author notification: Apr 12 2026
- Final papers due: Apr 13 2026
- Early Registration: Apr 26 2026
- Symposium: May 11-12 2026


Scope
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The European Lisp Symposium is a premier forum for the discussion and
dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation, and
application of any of the Lisp dialects, including Common Lisp,
Scheme, Emacs Lisp, Clojure, Racket, ACL2, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan,
SKILL, Hy, Shen, Carp, Janet, uLisp, Picolisp, Gamelisp, TXR, and so
on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

The European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about novel
research results, insights and lessons learned from practical
applications, and educational perspectives. We also encourage
submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new
setting and/or in a highly elegant way.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming
- macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches
- language design and implementation
- language integration, inter-operation, and deployment
- development methodologies, support, and environments
- educational approaches and perspectives
- experience reports and case studies


Technical Program
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We invite submissions in the following forms. Papers and experience
reports must not overlap significantly with the authors’ previously
published work in a peer reviewed publication, and must not be under
review on another journal or conference. Also, authors must agree with
our publication ethics and malpractice statement (cf.
https://european-lisp-symposium.org/pepms.html).

* Papers: technical papers of up to 8 pages that describe original
results or explain known ideas in new and elegant ways.

* Experience reports: papers of up to 6 pages describing a successful
use of a Lisp dialect and/or analyzing obstacles that have kept it
from working in practice.

* Tutorials: abstracts of up to 4 pages for in-depth presentations
about topics of special interest.

* Demonstrations: abstracts of up to 4 pages for demonstrations of
tools, libraries, and applications.

For information on the submission format, please refer to the
"Submission" section at https://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/2025.

Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair at the following link:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=els20256

Note: to help us with the review process please indicate the type of
submission in the title field in the submission form.


Programme Chair
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Mark Evenson


Organizing Chair
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Didier Verna, EPITA / LRE, France


Programme Committee
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Alan Ruttenberg, USA
Dave Cooper, Genworks, USA
Dimitris Vyzovitis, Mighty Gerbils
Eitaro Fukamachi, Japan
Marc Battyani, Enfabrica, USA
Mark David, Genworks, USA
Michael Raskin, LaBRI, France
Robert Goldman, SIFT, USA
-- tbe

Local Chairs
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Wojciech Gac, Keepit, Poland
Michał Herda, Keepit, Poland


Virtualization Team
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Georgiy Tugai, Configura, Sweden
Yukari Hafner, Shirakumo.org, Switzerland

--
Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated.

Didier Verna <did...@elsaa.org>
ELS Steering Committee