Call for proposal - 16th International Symposium on Bilingualism

Call for Individual Presentation Proposals

Submission deadline: October 1st, 2026

The International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 16), to be held in Saskatoon, Canada, on June 14-18, 2027, is pleased to announce the first Call for Individual Presentations Proposals (an abstract of a presentation that can be single-authored or co-authored. The theme of ISB 16 is “Languages in Academia and in Communities”. ISB is the leading international conference in the field of bi/multilingualism. The five-day program will cover a broad range of topics, including bilingual communication, language and cognition, child language development, language education, health communication, heritage and immigrant languages, Indigenous languages, translation and interpreting, neurolinguistics, minority and regional languages, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics.

All abstract submissions should be anonymous. Please remove any information from the body of your abstract that could identify its author(s). Sufficient detail on the theory, the research methods and results should be provided to enable reviewers to evaluate the scholarly merit of the proposal. Abstracts, including references, must not exceed 400 words. References, if included, should be formatted in APA 7th style. Each individual may submit a maximum of three individual proposals as the first (or sole) author. There is no limit on the number of co-authored presentations, provided that the individual is not the first author.

The available presentation formats are: an oral presentation (20 min with Q/A) and a poster (printed). To accommodate participants who may require a visa to enter Canada but unable to obtain it on time, a limited number (50) of online presentations slots will also be available.

Proposals should be uploaded through the ISB 16 individual submission portal Oxford Abstracts (you need to create a profile first) by October 1, 2026.

Submit your proposal by clicking here:

https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/82075/submitter

Notification of acceptance will be sent in early January 2027.

Additional conference information will be posted as it becomes available on the conference website https://conferences.usask.ca/isb16/

For questions, please contact isb16sask@gmail.com

We look forward to your proposals.

Call for ISB 16 symposia has ended

Submission deadline: June 30^th 2026

Symposia are 120-minute blocks that allow for extended, interactive discussion on a specific topic, focusing on a cluster of independent yet related papers. Each symposium consists of four slots, and should consist either of four presentations, or of three presentations and a discussion.

Proposals must include a general abstract describing the symposium as a whole (max 350 words), as well as abstracts for all individual presentations (each no longer than 350 words). The total length of one whole proposal (proposal overview plus 3-4 abstracts of presentations) should be no more than 1600 words with references. Sufficient detail on methods and results should be provided to allow peer reviewers to judge the merit of the proposal. The person submitting the symposium proposal is responsible for securing the permission and co-operation of all participants before the proposal is submitted.

All symposia abstract proposals should be anonymous. Please delete from your abstract submission any details (names of presenters) that might identify you (including those in the metadata). However, the submitter has to answer a question about the titles of the proposed presentations and the names and affiliations of all the authors in a separate rubric, which will not be visible to reviewers.

There are no specific guidelines on formatting the abstracts.

Proposals should be uploaded to the ISB 16 symposia submission portal by 30 June 2026. Click here to submit.

https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/82055/submitter

All other information will become available as relevant.

Note: Individual papers submissions will be open on July 2, 2026, with the submission deadline on October 1, 2026.

ISB 16 Registration fees (for your information only, the registration portal will open in December 2026)

Participant category	Registration fees
	In $Canadian	In Euros	In $US
Students (one fixed fee)	550	343	400
Faculty early bird (by February 15, 2027)	650	405	473
Faculty regular (by April 15, 2027)	750	467	546
online (one fixed fee) by April 15, 2027)	400	249	291

Please kindly notice that the primary registration fees are listed in Canadian dollars, and these will not change.

However, we list approximate currency conversion rates as of June 2026, and currency conversion rates vary over time. Please check the currency conversion rates and fees individually.

For the time being, the registration fees are for your information only. We will inform you how and where to pay your registration fees once the registration fees portal is open.