Symposium Themes:
1998: Symposium on Second Language Writing
Purdue University, USA, September 25-26, 1998
2000: Contexts of Second Language Writing
Purdue University, USA, September 15-16, 2000
2002: Constructing Knowledge: Approaches to Inquiry in Second Language Writing
Purdue University, USA, October 11-12, 2002
2004: Second Language Writing Instruction in Context(s): The Effects of Institutional Policies and Politics
Purdue University, USA, September 30-October 2, 2004
2006: Practicing Theory in Second Language Writing
Purdue University, USA, June 8-10, 2006
2007: Second Language Writing in the Pacific Rim
Nagoya Gakuin University, Japan, September 15-17, 2007
2008: Foreign Language Writing Instruction: Principles and Practices
Purdue University, USA, June 5-7, 2008
2009: The Future of Second Language Writing
Arizona State University, USA, November 5-7, 2009
2010: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
University of Murcia, Spain, May 20-22, 2010
2011: Writing for Scholarly Publication: Beyond “Publish or Perish”
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, June 9-11, 2011
2012: Graduate Study in Second Language Writing
Purdue University, USA, September 6-8, 2012
2013: L2 Writing in the Global Context
Shandong University, Jinan, China, October 17-21, 2013
2014: Professionalizing Second Language Writing
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA, November 13-15, 2014
2015: Learning to Write for Academic Purposes
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, November 19-21, 2015
2016: Expertise in Second Language Writing
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA, October 20-22, 2016
2017: Assessing Second Language Writing
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, June 30-July 2, 2017
2018: Second Language Writing in Multilingual Contexts
Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, August 2-4, 2018
2019: Agency and Second Language Writing
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA, November 13-16, 2019
2020: Academic Integrity and Second Language Writing
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 18-21, 2020
(Cancelled due to COVID-19)
2023: A New Beginning
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ USA, October 26-28, 2023
2024: The Ecology of Second Language Writing
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, November 14-16, 2024
2025: Second Language Writing Teacher Education in the AI Era
National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, October 23-25, 2025
2026: The Humanity of Writing Teachers in the Age of AI
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, October 23-25, 2026