Barry C. Smith, University of London, London, UK

Abstract: Arriving in Dubrovnik for the 2025 Philosophy of Language and Linguistics conference, it was hard to believe that Dunja wouldn’t be amongst us welcoming everyone on Sunday night to Troubadour in the Old Town for pre-conference drinks. We had a sense that the conference would be marked by her absence. For twenty years, Dunja was the lynchpin and key organiser of this series, bringing together a remarkable cast of characters each September to focus on language and linguistics. She started the existing series with Michael Devitt in 2005, although the conference was not always called, Philosophy of Language and Linguistics…