Here are the announcements for two upcoming undergraduate conferences soliciting abstracts. Both Canadian, as it happens (but you don't need to be Canadian to send an abstract!). TULCon Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference Abstracts due Feb 6 Conference on Mar 4-6 McCCLU McGill Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates Abstracts due Feb 18 Conference on Mar 11 ==== From: SLUGS Date: January 23, 2011 8:46:20 PM EST To: slugs@chass.utoronto.ca Subject: REMINDER: TULCON4 Call for Papers - Abstracts Due Feb. 6, 2011 TULCON4: CALL FOR PAPERS The Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students (SLUGS) at the University of Toronto is excited to announce its fourth annual conference for undergraduates from March 4-6, 2011. The Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (TULCon) is a great opportunity to meet your peers in the linguistics world, share your work, and learn; and we invite your submissions. Abstracts should be approximately 500 words in length (not including references), can be about any topic relating to linguistics, and can also be works in progress. Speakers will have the opportunity to speak for 20 minutes with 5 minutes for questions following. In your submission, please indicate whether you would like to present a talk or a poster during our poster session. Submissions should be sent as .pdf or Microsoft Word (.doc, NOT .docx) attachments to tulcon2011@gmail.com by Sunday, February 6, 2011. Also, keep an eye out for announcements about registration coming up in the near future! If you have any questions, please contact us at tulcon2011@gmail.com. -- SLUGS (Society of Linguistics Undergraduate Students) E-mail: slugs@chass.utoronto.ca Web site: http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~slugs/ Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6016112602 ==== From: McGill Linguistics Date: January 21, 2011 9:42:17 PM EST Subject: McGill Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates - March 11-13th To whom it may concern, The Society of Linguistics Undergraduates at McGill (SLUM) is hosting its fifth annual McGill’s Canadian Conference for Linguistics Undergraduates (McCCLU), and we would love to have undergraduate students at your university participate. Attached is a call for papers for the conference. Please forward it to all undergraduate students. If you have any further questions do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks for your time, George Starling and Jericho Knopp McCCLU Co-coordinators mccclu2011@gmail.com