Essex Graduate Conference in Linguistics (EGCL)

Students walking by the University lake The EGCL - Essex Graduate Conference in Linguistics (formerly the Graduate Student Presentation Day - GSPD) takes place in Spring each year. It provides an opportunity for postgraduate students in the Department to present their work to the Department's linguistics staff and student community under conference-like conditions. For more information about recent and upcoming conferences, follow the links below.

Recent & Upcoming Conferences

Why Present at the EGCL?

  • Because giving a presentation on your work forces you to structure and evaluate it. This in turn enables you to spot and hence remedy flaws in arguments and to identify new ways forward.
  • Because it will enable you to get feedback from others on what you have done so far and to benefit from their advice about what you might do in the future in terms of new lines of exploration, more appropriate tools or techniques and helpful literature.
  • Because this is an excellent opportunity to get conference practice in friendly surroundings.

Abstract Submission

All graduate students in the department are invited to submit abstracts for paper or poster presentation. 3rd year undergraduates who have completed research projects are encouraged to submit an abstract for poster presentation. 

A call for abstracts is usually issued around Christmas. Papers on any area of linguistics are welcome.

 

Last modified on 20 May 2013.