MoBI Speaker Series Guests
2026
To be announced
- Jorge R. Valdés Kroff, Ph.D., Associate professor, University of Florida
2025
A virtuous (and effective) cycle: How theory can inform practice and back again.
- Helene Deacon, Ph.D., Full Professor, Dalhousie University
The Bilingual Reading Brain: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Child Literacy.
- Ioulia Kovelman, Ph.D., Full Professor, University of Michigan
2024
Children’s reading comprehension: unpacking the role of pronouns.
- Émilie Courteau, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University
The interplay between language control and memory in bilinguals and second language learners.
- Teresa Bajo, Ph.D., Full Professor, at the University of Granada
Language In Its Social Context: Cultural Identity and Ideology.
- Marina Doucerain, Ph.D., Associate professor, Université du Québec à Montréal
2023
How we pay attention to first words.
- Michael Erard, Ph.D., Author and linguist – author of Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
How do attention and second language linguistic input interact?
- Daphné Simard, Ph.D., Full Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal
The attitudes and ideologies that motivate multilingual parenting in Quebec.
- Ruth Kircher, Ph.D., Senior Researcher at the European Centre for Minority Issues
Modulatory Factors Of Grammar Learning In Second And Third Languages.
- Marta Rivera, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Granada, Spain
Invited speakers at MoBI Acfas colloquia
2025
- Marc Joanisse, Ph.D., Western University
- Daphnée Simard, Ph.D., UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal
- Annick Tanguay, Ph.D., Université d’Ottawa
- Shanna Kousaie, Ph.D., Université d'Ottawa
- Erin Quirk, Ph.D., Université de Sherbrooke
- Alberto Osa Garcia, Ph.D., Université Concordia
- Laura Sabourin, Ph.D., Université d’Ottawa
Complete schedule here: 
acfas_2025_horaire.pdf
2023
- Marianne Paul, Ph.D., UQTR - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
- Erin Nora Quirk, Ph.D., Concordia University
- Marie-Hélène Marquis, Université de Moncton
- Julie Bouchard, Ph.D., UQAC - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
- Maria Lourdes Lira Gonzales, Ph.D., UQAT - Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Dianne MacDonald, Ph.D., University of Toronto
- Hélène Rompré, Ph.D., Collégial international Sainte-Anne
- Natalia Dankova, Ph.D., UQO - Université du Québec en Outaouais
Complete schedule here: acfas_2023_horaire.pdf
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