The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is not being held in 2026, but UWaterloo English faculty and students are still participating in a wide variety of conferences this summer.
If you'd like to include a new conference presentation, please fill in the Conference Information Form. To update any presentation information that is already listed here, please email Bruce Dadey. Additions and updates will be posted as they come in.
To see lists of conference presentations from previous years, see our Past Congress Presentations page.
| Presenter | Presentation | Association or Conference | Date and Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maab Al-Rashdan | Hierarchy Begins Here: How Satan’s ‘I Am Better Than Him’ Became Language’s Oldest Wound and a Template for Oppression. | Law, Culture, and Humanities (LCH) | June 17, 9:00 a.m. | Chicago, USA (Online) |
| Maab Al-Rashdan | Meeting Colorblind Racism on Its Own Rhetorical Register: Counterstory as Oppositional Enthymeme | Rhetoric, Writing, and Discourse Today (RhetCanada) | May 30, 9:00 a.m. | St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, SJ2 2003 |
| Maab Al-Rashdan | Welcome to Freedom where Terms and Conditions Apply: How U.S. Media Reconfigures Freedom for Refugees | CAPS | June 5, 1:30 p.m. | Montreal, Quebec (Online) |
| Veronica Austen | “More than a Scape”: Roy Kiyooka, Image-making, and Belonging | Cross-Pollinations (Centre for Literatures in Canada (CLC) and the Association of Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC)) | TBA (June 16-20) | University of Alberta |
| Veronica Austen | The Work of a Photograph: Heeding a Call to be Friends in Face Kao: Portraits of Japanese Canadians Interned During WWII | ACCUTE | June 6, 1:30 p.m. | Concordia University, Montreal, MB 3.270 |
| Sarah Casey | Apathy by Design: The Rhetoric of Risk Communication Stacking | Rhetoric, Writing, and Discourse Today (RhetCanada) | May 30, 4:00 p.m. | St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, SJ2 2003 |
| Sarah Casey | Light, Tight, and Right?: Phronesis, Terministic Exclusion, and Public Trust in Canada’s October 2025 AI Strategy Sprint | CPSA | June 2, 3:30 p.m. | Social Sciences building (FSS), University of Ottawa |
| Kellie Chouinard | Recasting Trauma: Collaborative Art and Queer Survivorship | ACCUTE | June 7, 10:30 a.m. | Montreal, Quebec |
| Kellie Chouinard | Voicing Metastatic Breast Cancer: Podcasting as Intimate Life Writing | CCA | June 3, 11:00 a.m. | Windsor, Ontario |
| Jennifer Clary-Lemon | "Noting"/A Field Guide to the Anthropocene: Assembling a Rhetorical Vocabulary for Witnessing | Rhetoric Society of America (panel) | May 23, 9:30 a.m | Portland, Oregon |
| Jennifer Clary-Lemon | From AI to IK: Seeing beyond Looking with the Field Note | Rhetoric, Writing, and Discourse Today (RhetCanada) | May 27, 2026, 10:00 a.m. | St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, SJ2 1002 |
| Jennifer Clary-Lemon | Sedimentation or Accretion? Rhetorical-Ecological Affinities for Mud | Rhetoric Society of America (roundtable) | May 22, 2026, 4:15 p.m. | Portland, Oregon |
| Bruce Dadey | Under the Plane Tree: Narrative and Suasion in the Rhetorical Dialogues of Plato and Cicero | Rhetoric, Writing, and Discourse Today (RhetCanada) | May 27, 1:00 p.m. | St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, SJ2 2003 |
| Haley Down | Culinary Recreation: The Role of Recipes in Women's Food Memoirs | ACCUTE | June 7, 3:30 p.m. | Concordia University, Montreal, MB 3.270 |
| Kavi Duvvoori | Figuring Out Whether Large Language Models Can Construct Grammatical Constructions and Rhetorical Figures |
Rhetoric, Writing, and Discourse Today (RhetCanada); |
May 26, 9:30 AM; May 29, 2 pm | St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, SJ2 2002; UWaterloo, DC 1302 |
| Carolyn Eckert | Ancient Appeals, Modern Crises: Punctuated Ethos and the Rhetoric of Trust in Vaccine Communication | Rhetoric, Writing, and Discourse Today (RhetCanada) | May 30, 2-2:10 p.m. | St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, SJ2 2003 |
| Carolyn Eckert | Trusted Voices in the Age of Health Misinformation | Editors Canada Conference | May 22, 11:30 a.m. | Dalhousie University, Halifax |
| Samantha Fowler | Advancing Inclusion through Community-driven Research: Ontario Summit for Students with Disabilities | Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences - Big Thinking Summit | June 10, 12:45 p.m. | Edmonton, AB |
| Kyle Gerber | Ghostly Transcendence: Entelechial Dialectics and Epideictic Rhetoric in Mark Abley’s Conversations with a Dead Man | Rhetoric, Writing, and Discourse Today (RhetCanada) | May 27, 1:00 p.m. | St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, SJ2 2003 |
| Kyle Gerber | We Construct Language as Language Constructs Us: VaNPbNPbVa Constructions | Rhetoricon Symposium | May 29, 10:30 a.m. | DC 1302, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON |
| Kenneth Graham | Company's Coming: Hospitality and Marriage in The Winter's Tale | Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies | June 7, 3:45 p.m. | University of Montreal, Lionel Groulx C-2059 |
| Kenneth Graham | Marriage and Community in The Winter's Tale | World Shakespeare Congress | July 26, 3:45 p.m. | Verona, Italy |
| Randy Harris | Sound arguments abound | Rhetoric, Writing, and Discourse Today (RhetCanada) | May 26, 10:00 AM | St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, SJ2 2002 |
| Rency Luan (Co-presenter: Kiera Gilbert, Carnegie Mellon University) | ChatGPT Said They Did It: Tracking Racial and Socioeconomic Biases through Crime Stories | Rhetoric Society of America | May 23, 9:00 a.m. | Portland, Oregon |
| Kem-Laurin Lubin | "Inclusive AI Futures" - Keynote panel | Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences | June 11, 2026 | Edmonton, AB |
| Kem-Laurin Lubin | Algorithmic Sovereignty and Security - A Critical Discourse Analysis of Competing Narratives in Transnational AI Governance | Rhetoric, Writing, and Discourse Today (RhetCanada) | May 26, 11:17 a.m. | St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, SJ2 2003 |
| Anna McWebb | It's Like A Kaleidoscope: Digital Tactics of Cultural Warfare | CCA | June 2, 9 a.m. | University of Windsor, Windsor, ON |
| Mohsina Shafqat Ali | Issues with Collaboration: Regaining Authorship in Mukhtar Mai’s In the Name of Honor | ACCUTE | June 7, 1:30 p.m. | Online |
| Mohsina Shafqat Ali | The Illusion of Freedom in the Land that Promises Freedom: Irony and Exclusion in Aarti Namdev Shahani’s Here We Are | CAPS | TBA | Online |
| Winfried Siemerling | Round table panel and book launch of Call and Response-ability: Black Canadian Works of Art and the Politics of Relation | ACQL | June 8, 4:15 p.m. | McGill University, ACQL Annual Conference , Room TBA |
| Michael Veenstra | Unattainable Vistas: The Legacy of Tolkien's Subcreation | 4th annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) Summer Salon Conference | June 25-27 (schedule TBC) | Online |
| Karen Ward | "The raynebowe it is right": Pride, Neurodiversity, and the Ethics of Inclusion in The York Mystery Plays 2022 | International Congress on Medieval Studies | May 15, 1:30 p.m. | Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI, Sangren Hall 3310 |
| Blaze Welling | Misrecognition and Rhetorical Resistance: Newspapers, Métis Identity, and Colonial Discourse | Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (CAPS) | June 4, 10:00 a.m. | Online |
| Blaze Welling | Voices in the Text: Paralanguage and Entextualization in Nineteenth-Century Canadian and Métis Political Discourse | Rhetoric, Writing, and Discourse Today (RhetCanada) | May 27, 11:15 a.m. | St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, SJ2 2003 |