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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The annual Forum of the <b>Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States</b> (LACUS) “CONTACTS AND INTERACTIONS” will take place on
<b>July 23-26</b>, 2019 here at Waterloo on St. Jerome’s University campus (<b>SJ2</b>). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The conference will begin at 1pm Tomorrow and the opening keynote speaker is Randy Harris from the Department of English.
</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The conference will end on Friday with a keynote by
<b>Emma Betz</b> from Germanic and Slavic Studies. <strong>Here is the link to the full program with other renowned speakers
</strong></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://lacus.weebly.com/lacus-2019-program.html">http://lacus.weebly.com/lacus-2019-program.html</a>.
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<p><span lang="EN-US">Registration is only $10 CAD for UW faculty; no fee for students. Registration desk will be open each day in the SJ2 Atrium.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Please, join us also for <b>the</b> <b>reception </b>on Tuesday,<b> </b>July 23<sup>rd</sup> at 6:15p.m. at SJ2 Atrium.<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">We look forward to seeing you there! <span style="color:black">
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">On behalf of the local organizing committee - Svetlana Kaminskaïa (French Studies), Kerry Lappin-Fortin (St. Jerome’s University), Grit Liebscher (Germanic and Slavic Studies), Dominique Louër (French Studies),</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Svetlana Kaminskaia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Associate Professor/ Professeure agrégée<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies/ Directrice des études du 1er cycle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Department of French Studies/ Département d’études françaises<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">University of Waterloo/ Université de Waterloo, ML337<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">(519) 888-4567 x32465
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