Full Title: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Conference 2025
Short Title: LACUS 2025

Date: 16-Jul-2025 - 18-Jul-2025
Location: Western University in London, Canada
Contact Person: Jacques Lamarche
Meeting Email: [email protected]

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 17-Mar-2025

Call for Papers:

The 2025 annual conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, our 51st LACUS conference, will be held July 16-18, 2025, at Western University, in London, Ontario, Canada, and will be hosted by the Department of French Studies, with local host Jacques Lamarche.

Invited Plenary Speaker: Professor Mark Daley, Chief AI Officer and Professor, Department of Computer Science, Western University

Papers by colleagues from around the world will be presented over the three days of the conference, and information about other possible events will be available later. A reception will welcome participants on
July 16th, and the presidential banquet will most likely take place on the evening of July 18th.

The Conference Theme is "AI in Linguistics: Artificial Intelligence in the Study of Natural Language"

All presentations will be available to both onsite and remote participants. All onsite presentations will also be Zoomed. All virtual (Zoomed) presentations will be available in the same rooms as the face-to-face ones.

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.

Abstracts must be submitted online. The abstract submission page can be found at http://www.lacussquare.org/proposal-form.html.
Please also visit and use the Abstract Guide: http://www.lacussquare.org/abstract-guide.html

The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to March 17, 2025.

The new schedule of Important Dates is as follows:
• 7 April 2025: Notification of acceptance / rejection
• 25 April 2025: Deadline for receipt of confirmation of attendance from presenters
• 7 May 2025: Deadline for receipt of presenter registration and membership fees
• 21 May 2025: First release of preliminary program
• 16-18 July 2025: LACUS Conference
• 16 July 2025: Board meeting, registration, reception, opening plenary.