CLES has been the organiser and co-organiser of Ways to Protolanguage (Protolang), an international conference series on language origins and evolution.

Protolang 5 – 26-28 Sep 2017 – Barcelona

Protolang 4 – 2015 – Rome
Michael Corballis, Dan Dediu, Francesco d’Errico, Daniel Dor, Ian Tattersall, Elisabetta Visalberghi

Protolang 3 – 2013 – Wrocław
Josep Call, Robin Dunbar, Peter Gärdenfors, Tomasz Krzeszowski

Protolang 2 – 2011 – Torun
John Gowlett, Juliane Kaminski, Adam Kendon, Katie Slocombe

Protolang 1 – 2009 – Torun
Terrence Deacon, Jim Hurford, Katie Slocombe, Jordan Zlatev