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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

LingLunch: Alexandra Safryghin
Friday, November 22, 2024, 2:00 PM

A short talk from Alexandra Safryghin, postdoctoral fellow in the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences. 

QM Global Linguistics Seminar 2024: Nishaant Choksi QM Global Linguistics Seminar 2024: Nishaant Choksi
Wednesday, November 27, 2024, 10:00 AM

Nishaant Choksi (IIT Gandhinagar) delivers the very first QM Global Linguistics Seminar, an annual online lecture.

PGR Training: PsychoPy
Wednesday, November 27, 2024, 2:00 PM

Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only, including MA, MRes and PhD students. 

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.

PGR Training: Postdoc & Grant Applications
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 2:00 PM

Please click 'book now' to sign up in advance. Click here to join via Zoom. 

Training leader: Linnaea Stockall

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: Ksenia Ershova (UCL)
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 4:30 PM
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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