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Some additional information on future PACMPL conferences: - POPL'26 is to be held in France in January 2026 - (as already mentioned) PLDI'26 is to be held in the US in June 2026 - OOPSLA'26 is to be held (as part of SPLASH) in the US in October 2026 - ICFP'26 has not been publicly announced yet, but it is planned in the US in Fall 2026 ( https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://icfp25.sigplan.org/details/icfp-2025-papers/41/ICFP-2026-Announcement__;!!IBzWLUs!XxbUuUX39lh_doN213evXBKOxZ3pnBXGqkagaY8VeotOcvksu5XcAvVWcEjZpDZb9jK5MajReNXWarfPIKq-gCzuNueKuCXDFfO4kQ$ ) On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM Gabriel Scherer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear types-list, > > I'm sure many people are anxious about the political situation in the US > right now, and I wish them best. > > Could we temporarily stop organizing conferences in the US? > > It is pretty clear that the US are not a safe place for universities right > now, and also unpalatable-to-unsafe for people (especially foreigners) > working in universities. The situation is also volatile and evolving > rapidly from bad to worse. Surely it would be unreasonable to commit now to > organize a large conference in the US next year, right? Well, PLDI 2026 is > planning to be located in Boulder, Colorado. Could the PLDI people maybe > reconsider? (If being in the Americas is important, maybe Canada?) > > Note: I'm aware there is no good choice of where to hold conferences, > every choice has downsides. (For example Europe is bad for people working > in various non-western countries due to very stringent requirements.) But > the US seems especially bad right now. > >
