TULCON17 - Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference
When and Where
Description
The Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference is an annual conference hosted by the Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUGS) at U of T.
As TULCON enters its 17th year, they look are looking forward to displaying the high quality research efforts of undergraduate linguistics students, domestically and internationally. TULCON is one of the longest running undergraduate linguistics conferences in North America and always attracts a huge audience.
This year's keynote speakers will present on the theme of African Linguistics.
To avoid limiting the submissions of undergraduate researchers, the yearly theme only applies to keynote speakers. Come ready to hear undergraduate research presented for undergrads, by undergrads!
New to this year, SLUGS will also be publishing the inaugural edition of the Proceedings of TULCON.
Keynote speakers:
- Prof. Samuel Akinbo, University of Toronto (keynote)
- Prof. Felix Ameka, Leiden University (keynote)
- Prof. Juvénal Ndayiragije, University of Toronto (keynote)
Undergraduate speakers:
- Paula Arkhangorodsky, University of Toronto
- Nathaniel Brady, University of Toronto
- Adam Brandt, Brown University
- Miguel Buitrago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Miguel Buitrago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Karina Cheung, University of Toronto
- Grace Clark, Simon Fraser University
- Raimundo Cox-Casals, McGill University
- Nikola Datkova, University of Cambridge; University of Pennsylvania
- Elaine Ridley Kharbanda, Columbia University
- Patrick Kinchsular, University of Toronto
- Lucy Meanwell, University of Toronto
- Chris Samojedny, McGill University
- Talia Sherman, Brown University
- Ariel Stein, Brown University
Thank you to the sponsors:
- Canadian Linguistics Association
- University of Toronto Department of Philosophy
- University of Toronto Department of Computer Science
- Department of French
- University of Toronto Department of English
- University of Toronto Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations
- Department of Spanish & Portuguese
- African Studies Centre
- Department of Linguistcs
- ASSU