LAHORE: Punjab University’s Institute of Languages, in collaboration with Higher Education Commission (HEC), would organise the second international conference of the Linguistic Association of Pakistan (ICLAP) tomorrow at Al Raazi Hall. The central theme of the conference is “Aspects and Approaches in Contemporary Linguistic Studies”. A large number of delegates from Islamabad, Karachi, Multan, Quetta, Peshawar, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi and other cities of the country would participate in the conference and present their research work on language and linguistics before the interested participants. Students and young scholars of social sciences and humanities in general and of language and linguistics in particular would benefit from the presence of renowned linguists and established scholars of the field at one place. The opening ceremony of the conference has been framed at 9am tomorrow at the Al-Razi Hall of the university in the new campus. Punjab Higher Education Minister Zakia Shahnawaz Khan and Education Minister Rana Mashhood would also grace the occasion. The international panel of plenary speakers would include Prof Dr Francisco Marcos-Marin from Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Texas, USA, Prof Dr Maria Lourdes Garcia-Macho from National University of Distance Education, Spain, Dr Elena Bashir from The Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, Dr Tikaram Poudel from Kathmandu University, Hattiban, Nepal, and Kumon Kimiaki Tokumaru from Japan. In addition to the academic sessions on different topics of languages and linguistics, two applied workshops would be framed within the conference by the Pakistan Association for Lexicology and Lexicography and the Pakistan Association for Interpreting and Translation Studies.