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:

Olga Vechtomova Professor
Department of Management Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
and Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
“AI and Creativity: Generating lyrical and poetic texts to inspire artists”  
  

Nicole Nolette
The Canada Research Chair in Minority Studies Associate Professor Department of French Studies, University of Waterloo
“Linguistic Insecurity and Francophone Legitimacy in Toronto”

Grit Liebscher
Professor of Applied Linguistics Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies, University of Waterloo
“Language in the Linguistic Landscape”

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.

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FOR LACUS 2024 PROGRAM PDF
​CLICK LINK:  conference_program_at_a_glance_draft_1_from_gaby_may_28_2024.pdf
 

​Contacts:
For questions about housing, venue, travel, contact any of the following:

• Svetlana Kaminskaïa, Local Arrangements Chair <[email protected]>

For questions about registration / membership, contact the LACUS Secretary-Treasurer:

• Rennie Gonsalves, LACUS Treasurer <[email protected]>

For questions about proposal submission, contact the Program Chair / Program Coordinator:

• Gaby Semaan, Program Chair <[email protected]>
• Erika Marcet, Program Coordinator <[email protected]>
• Kasumi Yamazaki, Assistant Program Chair <[email protected]> (on leave)

If you have problems with the functioning of this web page, contact the LACUS Webmaster:

• Doug Coleman <[email protected]>