Dear CALL Conferences …

The CALICO Journal editors attend a lot of conferences. At the XIXth International Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Research Conferencein Bruges, Belgium this year we reflected on what makes a "good" conference, whether CALL as a subdiscipline needs its own conferences, and why we should attend such conferences. Below are some thoughts (few of them our own) that emerged from our conversations with scholars who have had significant experience in both attending and organizing such conferences. Our focus here is on CALL and CALL-relevant conferences, but we think much of what we write is applicable to academic conferences in applied linguistics more widely.