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From October 8-10, 2026, 4S is pleased to welcome and host the Society for Literature, Science & the Arts (SLSA), for a series of integrated streams. This will be the 39th meeting of the SLSA in North America, an event that welcomes radically interdisciplinary interventions from colleagues in the sciences, engineering, technology, computer science, medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, the arts, and independent scholars and artists.
Submit an abstract for the SLSA 2026 Streams
Scholars and artists are invited to submit abstracts and panel proposals to one of four broad SLSA Streams: 1) Technology; 2) Ecologies; 3) Play; 4) Arts & Literature. The deadline is April 30, 2026. Submissions must be made by following the 4S 2026 Conference Submissions platform, via the SLSA 2026 Submissions where you can select one SLSA Stream from the aforementioned streams. A detailed description of each stream appears on the full SLSA Toronto 2026 Call for Papers, available on the SLSA Website. To view previous SLSA programs for context, visit the SLSA Conference Archive. Artists who are interested in presenting their work at the conference are encouraged to submit projects to the 4S Making and Doing program.
All accepted presenters must be SLSA Members in good standing by August 31, 2026 or they will be removed from the conference program. Additional deadlines for SLSA Streams will follow the same schedule as the 4S 2026 Key Dates.
Note: Conference participants are asked to choose between submitting an abstract for either the SLSA Stream or for a regular 4S panel. From the 4S Organizers:
To enable many people’s participation, the conference chairs will follow the following guideline. Each participant will be limited to one role as a presenter and two additional non-presenter roles at the conference. Non-presenter roles include organizing or chairing a session, being a discussant in a session, organizing or participating in roundtables, and participating in a Making & Doing session. For those presenting at 4S for the first time, it is worth noting the Society's ethos on co-authored papers. By discouraging more well-known authors from presenting multiple co-authored papers, we hope to encourage and provide the opportunity for other co-authors to take that presenting role, as a way to foster more inclusive engagement.
Questions can be submitted to SLSA Toronto site organizers, Marcel O’Gorman (marcel@uwaterloo.ca) and David Cecchetto (dcecchet@yorku.ca).