Notice Board

The University of Lethbridge is proud to host the 1st Annual CLARA conference on November 24-26, 2016. This inaugural conference will serve to enhance existing research within the field of child language acquisition in Alberta, as well as to promote an extended research exchange and collaboration on a national and international scale.

One unique feature of our conference is its strong community focus. To engage with the community, we will offer a combination of interactive formats, including keynote addresses, “lightning talks”, workshops, roundtable discussions, and a poster session.

Program highlights that are FREE and open to the public:

• Keynote Public Address | Thursday, November 24 7 - 8:15 p.m. PE250 (FREE, Open to the Public, refreshments)
  Developing bilinguals: Changing minds and brains, presented by Dr. Ellen Bialystok
• Lightning Talks | Friday, November 25 6-8pm, AH100 (FREE, Open to the Public, light buffet)
  Feature a series of concise talks that deliver important messages to the general public. Each speaker will have 5 minutes of 10 auto-advanced slides to keep the level of interest up.

Invited guests/attendees should visit us online for the full program.

Information gathered from the keynote lectures, lightning talks, roundtable discussion, poster session and workshops will be distributed among the community members (such as school teachers, parents, and clinicians), through pamphlets and/or a Facebook page. 

The conference is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Counsel, the University of Lethbridge, the Women's Scholar Speaker Series (WSSS) and the Hotchkiss Speaker fund.