Call for Abstracts | 2026 SLaLS Graduate Student Symposium

Mark your calendars! On Thursday, April 2, 2026, SALaDS will be hosting their annual graduate student symposium. This year the topic of the symposium is From Classroom to Community: Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies for a Changing World.

The symposium brings together and showcases graduate student and upper-year undergraduate student research from the School of Linguistics and Language Studies (SLaLS) and related disciplines in a supportive atmosphere to share ideas and discuss recent language-related projects.

Students are invited to submit proposals (300 words) for poster presentations by 11:59PM on Monday, February 23, 2026.

You will find abstract writing and poster making resources on the SALaDS Brightspace page. For more information, please join SALaDS on BrightSpace by following this link and clicking the “Enroll in Course” button.

For more information, please contact SALaDS Symposium Organizing Committee Member Hanna Harper at hannaharper@cmail.carleton.ca.