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Events Approved for RPS Credit: Fall 2026

The following events are approved for RPS Credit. Some events are offered both in-person and online, whereas others are in-person only or online only. Note that all events featured in the â€¯are also approved for RPS Credit. For conferences, please remember to send your proof of registration along with your summary. For all events, you must submit your summary within two weeks of the event date (and before the November 30 RPS participation deadline for late-term events) if you would like them counted this semester. Visit the RPS page for full submission details. 

Research Talks (Colloquia)

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UBC Linguistics 

  • Refer to the upcoming
  • Sign up for UBC Linguistics'
  • Upcoming: Peter West, Challenges for a modern vision of AI
  • Fri. Oct. 23, 3:30 - 5:00 pm at UBC Vancouver (Totem Field Studios Reading Room); in-person only.

UVic School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures (SLLC) 

  • Find out more about the University of Victoria's
  • Upcoming: Lisa Matthewson (UBC), Linguistic Research and Indigenous Language Revitalization: A Case Study on Polar Questions
  • Fri. Oct. 30, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
  • Attend in person at the University of Victoria: CLE A313

Cleveland State University Linguistics

  • Chris Collins, part of the series: 
  • Fri. Nov. 6, 9:00am
  • Online only. .

Graduate Student Defences and Presentations

  • Refer to the upcoming MA and PhD event listings
  • Upcoming: MA Thesis presentation by Romina Hashemi, Thurs. Dec. 10, 9:00 am. Event page coming soon. 
  • Note: This presentation occurs after the RPS participation deadline for Fall 2026. You may submit this summary in January and apply the RPS credit to a participating course for the Spring 2027 semester.
  • To attend via Zoom, contact lingcomm@sfu.ca for the link
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  • Note that following the public presentation and question period (~45–60 mins), everyone except the Exam Committee will exit the session as closed deliberation takes place. 

Conferences with Free Sessions for Students

Joint 2026 CEAH Symposium and TSSL Conference

  • Hosted by Iowa State University: Oct. 15-16
  • Online only. . 
  • The Constructed Agents theme provides a forum for exploring how humans develop their understanding of AI agents from their exposure to representations of agents in literature and film. The conference explores how and to what extent representations of non-human sentient agents such as Frankenstein’s creature in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel and Hal in 2001 Space Odyssey may shape views of today’s language-using AI agents including those for language learning.  

7th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA-7)

  • Hosted by East Texas A&M University: Nov. 5-7
  • Online only. . Note that the conference schedule is in US Central time (Dallas). 
  • Pragmatics without borders. Dive in to the latest theoretical and applied research in pragmatics and connect with an international community of scholars working across philosophical, linguistic, cognitive, social, intercultural and interlanguage perspectives.
  • Note: Apart from the plenary speakers (1 hour each), the oral presentation sessions are 20 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A; students must attend two 30-minute oral presentation sessions to earn one RPS credit. 

Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum 7

  • Hosted by Ohio State University: Nov. 6 
  • Online only. .

2026 Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) 

  • Hosted by California State University, Fresno: Nov. 14-15 
  • Online only.

Other Live, Online Seminars

2026 Language Documentation Learning Series

  • Co-hosted by the Endangered Languages Project and the Language Documentation Training Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • Free, 9-week learning series on language documentation
  • Live sessions take place on Zoom each Friday at 5:00 pm or 4:00 pm (Oct. 9 - Dec. 4)
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  • New topic each week. No prior experience or education is needed; all are welcome to attend at any point in the series.

Concepts of NLP

  • Presented by the Digital Resource Alliance of Canada
  • Tuesday, Oct. 27, 10:00 am
  • Speaker: Marie-Hélène Burle
  • This webinar will cover the fundamental concepts of Natural Language Processing (NLP), including text preprocessing, tokenization, embeddings, and key NLP techniques.