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Languages, Linguistics and Film

Events

We host a range of weekly and annual events, including:

  • Departmental Guest Speaker Seminar Series
  • Postgraduate Research Afternoons
  • LingLunch talk series
  • reading groups for formal linguistics, sociolinguistics, and experimental linguistics
  • the annual Jenny Cheshire Lecture
  • the annual London Semantics Day
  • Randolph Quirk Fellow workshops and public lecture

Stay up-to-date

We maintain a google calendar with complete details of all upcoming and past events. To receive email announcements of all QMUL Linguistics Events, subscribe to linguistics-research@qmul.ac.uk at QMULs listserver. QMUL staff and students can self-subscribe, while external people should send a request to ling-events-admin@qmul.ac.uk to be added.

You can also follow us on Facebook, Bluesky and X (formerly Twitter).

If you have issues with any of these links or pages, please email ling-events-admin@qmul.ac.uk

How to find us

Events take place in various buildings around the Mile End Campus, including ArtsOne (37), ArtsTwo (35), Francis Bancroft Building (31) and the Graduate Centre (18) highlighted on the map below. For a more detailed campus map including a legend, visit this link.

A cropped map of the Mile End campus, highlighting buildings that the linguistics department uses the most

Guest Speaker Seminar Series: Piotr Węgorowski (Glasgow)
Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 4:30 PM

Dr Piotr WÄ™gorowski (University of Glasgow) will give a seminar entitled Linguistic ethnography meets organisation studies: Language and institutional logics in the community policing contexts as part of the Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar series. 

LingLunch: Andreea Calude
Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 3:00 PM

Prof. Andreea Calude (University of Waikato) will present a LingLunch talk entitled Social media language: creative, dynamic and strategic.

Guest Speaker Seminar Series: Mits Ota (Edinburgh)
Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 4:30 PM

Prof. Mits Ota (University of Edinburgh) will give a seminar as part of the Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar series. 

Guest Speaker Seminar Series: Caroline Heycock (Edinburgh)
Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 4:30 PM

Prof. Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) will give a seminar as part of the Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar series. 

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