2024 LACUS Annual Conference
Call for Participation
The 50th anniversary conference of
the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States
will be held
July 17-19, 2024
at The University of Waterloo and Saint Jerome’s University
Ontario, Canada
and will be hosted by the Department of French Studies
of the University of Waterloo
Invited speakers:
TBA
The conference theme is
Languages without Borders
All presentations will be available to both on-site and remote participants. All on-site presentations will be streamed via Zoom; all remote (Zoomed) 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.
Contacts:
For questions about housing, venue, travel, contact any of the following:
- 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
- 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 2023:
- 1 JAN 2024: Abstract submission opens (on-line)
- 26 FEB 2024: Final abstract submission deadline
- 11 APR 2024: Notification of acceptance / rejection
- 22 APR 2024: Deadline for receipt of confirmation of attendance from presenters
- 22 MAY 2024: Deadline for receipt of presenter registration and membership fees
- 20 MAY 2024: First release of preliminary program
- 17-19 JUL 2024: LACUS Conference
- 17 JUL 2024: Board meeting, registration, reception, opening plenary.
Presenters are required to be members of LACUS and to be registered for the conference.
Contacts:
For questions about housing, venue, travel, contact any of the following:
- Svetlana Kaminskaïa, Local Arrangements Chair <skaminskaia@uwaterloo.ca>
- Rennie Gonsalves, LACUS Treasurer <lacus.treasurer@gmail.com>
- Gaby Semaan, Program Chair <gaby.semaan@utoledo.edu>
- Erika Marcet, Program Coordinator <erika.marcet@gmail.com>
- Kasumi Yamazaki, Assistant Program Chair <Kasumi.Yamazaki@utoledo.edu> (on leave)
- Doug Coleman <Douglas.Coleman@utoledo.edu>