2021 LACUS Conference
Call for Participation
The 2021 annual conference of the
Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States
will be held
ONLINE
July 19-23, 2021,
hosted by the Department of World Languages and Cultures,
The University Toledo, Toledo, Ohio

Invited speakers: TBA

The conference theme is
Communicating in the Time of Coronavirus

Abstracts.  While abstracts presenting empirically grounded investigations in any theoretical framework into aspects of the conference theme are especially welcome, LACUS invites abstracts representing a broad range of approaches to language, including interdisciplinary topics and innovative ideas.  The following list of topics is intended as suggestive rather than comprehensive or restrictive.
  • Environmental linguistics
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Ethnolinguistics
  • Context and meaning
  • International communication
  • Group interactions in different settings 
  • Online communication
  • Political discourse
  • Discourse and social distancing
  • Speaking and hearing under stress
  • Personal / media bias in communication
  • Anything else in general / historical linguistics
The Ruth Brend Fund provides financial support to help defray costs of attending LACUS meetings for members from countries with weak currencies.  The Presidents' Prize Fund helps pay for prizes awarded to the best student and post-doctoral papers presented at each annual LACUS conference.

Important Dates.  The following is the planned timeline for LACUS 2021.  Authors of abstracts submitted by March 31, 2021 will be informed of its acceptance or rejection by May 3.
  • 31 MARCH 2021:  Final abstract submission deadline
  • 3 MAY 2021: Notification of acceptance / rejection of submissions
  • 17 MAY 2021: Deadline for receipt of confirmation of attendance from presenters
  • 14 JUNE 2021: Deadline for receipt of presenter registration and membership fees
  • 25 JUNE 2021: Preliminary program available on-line
  • 19-23 JULY 2021: LACUS Conference
    • All conference registration will be online, none "on-site" as the conference will be virtual.
    • All sessions will be plenary (one at a time) over the five days of the conference.
    • Registered participants will receive access to all sessions via Cisco Webex.
    • Participants will be able to access sessions via Webex (free download) or a web browser.
As stated last year, anyone with an abstract accepted for the cancelled 2020 LACUS Conference may carry the acceptance of that paper over by e-mailing the LACUS Program Chair (Douglas.Coleman@utoledo.edu); please identify any updates in author name(s), affiliations, etc.  This option applies only if the author(s) will be presenting the same paper as submitted for 2020 (only minor editorial changes to the previously-accepted abstract will be permitted to carried-over papers).
 
Presenters are required to be members of LACUS and to be registered for the conference. Regardless of acceptance status, anyone who has not registered and paid registration and membership fees by June 14, 2021 will not have their paper scheduled on the program nor will their abstract be published in the 2021 LACUS Meeting Handbook.  This year, the LACUS Meeting Handbook will be published only in PDF format.  As always, presentation of a paper at LACUS is a prerequisite of submission of that paper to the association's refereed annual journal, the LACUS Forum, for consideration for possible publication.

To submit a new (not already-accepted) proposal for LACUS 2021, GO HERE.