Arts and Social Sciences Fair
Saturday, January 31, 2026 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
- In-person event
- Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre , Ottawa , ON , K2P 0E2
The Arts and Social Sciences Fair brings students and professors together at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, to celebrate what makes the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences a great place to study. Attendees can pick-and-choose from panels, interactives, and informational booths to discover all the Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University has to offer.
This year, faculty from our Linguistics (LING) and Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (ALDS) programs will be there alongside faculty from Modern Languages. Read more about what they have in store for you at the fair below.
Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies
Language in Practice, Meaning in Action:
Where Language Gets Real
What’s the difference between an applied linguist, a discourse analyst, and a theoretical linguist? Come find out!
Explore how an Instagram feed dispels the myths associated with language teaching and learning, and reproduces ideologies in potentially harmful ways. Using social media as a tool, explore how language is central to the way we identify ourselves and how we think about the world through some of the following themes:
- AI literacy
- 2SLGBTQIA+ rights
- Beliefs about language learning, teaching, and assessment
- Colonialized teaching methods
- Language education and textbooks
- Language and cultural challenges faced by immigrants and refugees
- Language and linguistic human rights
- Identity and the language learner
Linguistics
What Does the Sound of Your Name Look Like?
Explore how linguists analyze speech, by recording your name and learning what each of its sounds look like on a waveform and spectrogram. These tools provide visual representations of speech signals and play an important role in psycholinguistics and understanding communication differences.
Drop by our table to learn more about our new Psycholinguistics and Communication Differences program!
Modern Languages
Be a Polyglot: Discover, Speak, Connect!
Dive into new languages, rekindle your love for the ones you’ve started, and unlock the confidence to connect globally. Learning a language isn’t just about words, it’s about opening doors: studying abroad for a term, landing an exciting job overseas, or simply making new friends across cultures. The opportunities are endless when you speak more than one language. Ready to start your adventure?
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