2023 LACUS Conference
Call for Participation
The 2023 annual conference of
the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States
will be held
July 5-7, 2023 at The University of Toledo
hosted by the Department of World Languages and Cultures
Invited speakers:
Linda Rouillard, University of Toledo (U.S.A)
Alice Gaby, Monash University (Australia)
The conference theme is
Linguistics and Communication:
Research and Teaching / Learning
All presentations will be available to both on-site and remote participants. All on-site presentations will be streamed via Webex; all remote (Webex) presentations will be available to on-site participants in a meeting room at The University of Toledo.
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.
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 2023:
Presenters are required to be members of LACUS and to be registered for the conference. Because of uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the LACUS Board of Directors have decided to hold the conference in a hybrid format. We expect there to be on-site presentations at the planned venue (The University of Toledo) AND virtual (live-streamed) presentations. ALL presentations (on-site and live-streamed) will be available to ALL attendees, those who are on-site AND those who are participating in LACUS via Webex. (This means your presentation will be available remotely even if you are presenting in person on-site.)
Proposal submission for LACUS 2023 is available. See the sidebar for links to the Proposal Guide, Note to Proposal Authors, and Submission Form.
Contacts:
For questions about housing, venue, travel, contact any of the following:
- Environmental linguistics
- Pragmatics
- Social aspects of teaching and learning to communicate
- Creativity in teaching/learning to communicate
- Human communication
- Ethnolinguistics
- Studying context and acquisition of the meaning-form relation
- International communication
- Group interactions in different settings
- Online communication
- The effects of social distancing on research and on language learning in schools
- Speaking and hearing in acquisition and learning contexts
- Other topics in general / historical / applied linguistics / communication
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 2023:
- 1 JAN 2023: Abstract submission opens (on-line)
- 15 MAR 2023: Final abstract submission deadline
- 19 APR 2023: Notification of acceptance / rejection
- 30 APR 2023: Deadline for receipt of confirmation of attendance from presenters
- 5 MAY 2023: Deadline for receipt of presenter registration and membership fees
- 15 MAY 2023: First release of preliminary program
- 5-7 JUL 2023: LACUS Conference
- 5 JUL 2023: Board meeting, registration, reception, opening plenary.
Presenters are required to be members of LACUS and to be registered for the conference. Because of uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the LACUS Board of Directors have decided to hold the conference in a hybrid format. We expect there to be on-site presentations at the planned venue (The University of Toledo) AND virtual (live-streamed) presentations. ALL presentations (on-site and live-streamed) will be available to ALL attendees, those who are on-site AND those who are participating in LACUS via Webex. (This means your presentation will be available remotely even if you are presenting in person on-site.)
Proposal submission for LACUS 2023 is available. See the sidebar for links to the Proposal Guide, Note to Proposal Authors, and Submission Form.
Contacts:
For questions about housing, venue, travel, contact any of the following:
- Gaby Semaan <Gaby.Semaan@utoledo.edu>, 2023 Conference Co-host
- Kasumi Yamazaki <Kasumi.Yamazaki@utoledo.edu>, 2023 Conference Co-host
- Erika Marcet <erika.marcet@utoledo.edu>, 2023 Conference Program Coordinator
- Gaby Semaan <Gaby.Semaan@utoledo.edu>
- Rennie Gonsalves, LACUS Treasurer <lacus.treasurer@gmail.com>
- Doug Coleman <Douglas.Coleman@utoledo.edu>