[TYPES] Could we temporarily stop having conferences in the US?

[Gabriel Scherer]

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 <gabriel.scherer at gmail.com>
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.
>
>