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In this section, you can find recent past events that have occurred over the current academic year.

LingLunch: Linnaea Stockall
Friday, November 1, 2024, 2:00 PM
LingLunch: Matt Hunt Gardner
Friday, October 18, 2024, 2:00 PM
PGR Training: Bayesian Statistics
Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 2:00 PM

Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only, including MA, MRes and PhD students. Please click 'book now' to sign-up in advance. 

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

Dr Piotr Węgorowski (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. 

Guest Speaker Seminar Series: Dr Anikó Lipták (Leiden)
Wednesday, June 12, 2024, 4:30 PM

We are excited to be welcoming Dr Anikó Lipták (Leiden) to give an online talk entitled Deletion in synthetic adjectival compounds as part of our Guest Speaker Seminar Series. Click here to join via Zoom. 

MA Research Afternoon
Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 2:00 PM

Our MA students will present their research to the department.

LingLunch: Emmeline Wilson
Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 12:30 PM

A LingLunch talk by visiting PhD student Emmeline Wilson (Penn State). Click here to join via Zoom.

Jenny Cheshire Lecture 2024 | Prof. Crispin Thurlow Jenny Cheshire Lecture 2024 | Prof. Crispin Thurlow
Friday, May 31, 2024, 4:30 PM

The Department of Linguistics welcomes Prof. Crispin Thurlow (University of Bern) for his lecture entitled Finding value in waste: Language, materiality, and the stuff of words as the next instalment in our Jenny Cheshire Lecture Series. Guests must order a free ticket

Postgraduate Training: Google Vision
Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 2:00 PM

Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.

Randolph Quirk Fellow Public Lecture: Professor Veneeta Dayal Randolph Quirk Fellow Public Lecture: Professor Veneeta Dayal
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 2:00 PM

Lecture title: Optional Plural Marking in General Number Systems and the Effects of Animacy Restrictions

Click below to download the lecture slides:

RQF 2024 Public Lecture Slides [PDF 1,366KB]

Randolph Quirk Fellow Workshop #3: Professor Veneeta Dayal
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 2:00 PM

Workshop 3: (In)definiteness in Article-less Languages and Article Use in New Englishes

Click below to download the workshop slides:

RQF 2024 Workshop 3 Slides [PDF 480KB]

Randolph Quirk Fellow Workshop #2: Professor Veneeta Dayal
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 2:00 PM

Workshop 2: Demonstratives, Definites, Bare Nouns: What Competes with What

Click below to download the workshop slides:

RQF 2024 Workshop 2 Slides [PDF 655KB]

Randolph Quirk Fellow Workshop #1: Professor Veneeta Dayal
Monday, May 20, 2024, 2:00 PM

Workshop 1: Demonstrative to Definite, What Changes and What Stays the Same

Click below to download the workshop slides:

RQF 2024 Workshop 1 Slides [PDF 506KB]

 

Postgraduate Training: Funding
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 3:00 PM

Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.

Postgraduate Training: Jobs in Industry Q&A
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 2:00 PM

Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.

Invited Speaker Talk: Prof. Richard Kayne
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 1:00 PM

We are excited to be welcoming Prof. Richard Kayne (New York University) to Queen Mary to give an invited speaker talk entitled Some thoughts on English modal need.

London Semantics Day 2024
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 2:00 PM

The London Semantics Day is an opportunity for semanticists in London and beyond to meet together and discuss their research. 

Invited Speaker Talk: Prof. Peter Svenonius
Monday, May 13, 2024, 2:00 PM

We are excited to be welcoming Prof. Peter Svenonius (Tromsø) to Queen Mary to give an invited speaker talk entitled What Late Insertion is Good for. This is a hybrid event; please click here to join via Zoom. 

LingLunch: Adam Chong
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 1:00 PM

Our academic staff member Dr Adam Chong will give a talk entitled Variability in stress 'deafness' in Singapore English listeners: Implications for models of intonation in multilingual contexts as part of our LingLunch series. 

LingLunch: Luisa Martí
Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 1:00 PM

A talk entitled Possible and impossible determiners by our academic staff member Dr Luisa Martí.

Invited Speaker Talk: Ur Shlonsky
Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 4:30 PM

Ur Shlonsky will give a talk entitled Noise as an invited speaker to the linguistics department.

Postgraduate Training: Ethics
Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 2:00 PM

Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.

Symposium: The impact of Tagalog in Psycholinguistics and Formal Linguistics
Friday, March 22, 2024, 3:00 PM

This symposium discusses what Tagalog can teach us about psycholinguistics and formal linguistics. Click here for registration. 

POSTPONED: Guest Speaker Seminar Series: Prof. Jennifer Smith (University of Glasgow)
Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 4:30 PM

This event has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances.

Postgraduate Training: Sketch Engine
Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 2:00 PM

Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.

Postgraduate Training: Mixed Modelling
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 2:00 PM

Part of our training programme, this event is open to postgraduate students across MA, MRes and PhD programmes.

LingLunch: Rhys Sandow
Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 2:00 PM

An informal presentation by our academic staff member Dr Rhys Sandow.

PGR Training: ELAN
Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 2:00 PM

Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only.

LingLunch: Dave Kenneth Cayado
Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 1:00 PM

A presentation by our PhD student Dave Kenneth Cayado on his recently submitted thesis. 

PGR Training: Gorilla
Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 2:00 PM

Part of our PGR training programme, this event is open to PGR students only.

Guest Speaker Seminar Series: Suhail Matar (BCBL)
Wednesday, February 7, 2024, 4:30 PM

Suhail Matar (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language) will give a seminar as part of the Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar series. 

Guest Speaker Seminar Series: Dr Nicholas Rolle (ZAS Berlin)
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 4:30 PM

We are delighted to be welcoming Dr Nicholas Rolle (Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) to the department who will deliver a seminar entitled "Bipartite morphemes, grammatical tone, and restrictions on exponent shape". The session will be followed by a drinks reception.

PGR Training: Publishing
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 2:00 PM

This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.

PGR Training: LaTeX
Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 2:00 PM

This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.

PGR Training: Job market, job interviews
Tuesday, November 21, 2023, 2:00 PM

This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.

PGR Training: Abstract writing
Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 2:00 PM

This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.

PGR Training: Whisper AI (Packer-Stucki)
Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 2:00 PM

This event is for QMUL Linguistics postgraduate students.

LingLunch: Tom Stephen
Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 1:00 PM
‘A-bar Matters’ workshop
Wednesday, September 13, 2023, 1:30 PM
Space and Trauma - Workshop 2
Sunday, June 25, 2023, 11:00 AM

Part of a series of two workshops on Space and Trauma

Space and Trauma - Workshop 1
Saturday, June 24, 2023, 11:00 AM

Part of a series of two workshops on Space and Trauma

LingLunch Guest Speaker: Jasper Sim
Friday, June 23, 2023, 12:00 PM
Guest Speaker Seminar: Stefan Grondalaers
Thursday, May 11, 2023, 2:45 PM
Linguistics Postgraduate Research Afternoon 2023
Thursday, May 11, 2023, 1:00 PM
London Semantics Day 2023
Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 10:00 AM
Guest Speaker Seminar: Catherine Laing
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 4:30 PM
Linguistics Taster
Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 5:00 PM
Guest Speaker Seminar: Laura Gwilliams
Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 4:30 PM
Guest Speaker Seminar: Caroline Tagg
Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 4:30 PM
Guest Speaker Seminar: Elise Newman
Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 4:30 PM
Jenny Cheshire Lecture 2022 - Miriam Meyerhoff
Friday, June 10, 2022, 4:30 PM
LingLunch | Pharao (University of Copenhagen)
Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 1:00 PM
PGR training workshop: Intro to Gorilla
Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 2:00 PM
LingLunch | Louis Strange (QMUL)
Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 2:00 PM
PG training: Publishing your work
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 2:00 PM
Language & COVID discussion group
Friday, March 18, 2022, 2:30 PM
Guest Speaker Seminar Series: Prof. Aditi Lahiri
Wednesday, February 23, 2022, 4:30 PM
Guest Speaker Seminar Series | Emily Hanink (Manchester)
Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 4:30 PM
PhD workshop: Preparing for the Job Market
Wednesday, December 8, 2021, 11:00 AM

Speaker: Adam Chong, Christian Ilbury

PhD workshop: How to get the most out of supervision
Friday, December 3, 2021, 2:00 PM

Speaker: Hall, Ilbury, Meadows, Ardoino

PhD workshop: Abstract Writing
Thursday, December 2, 2021, 3:00 PM

Speaker: Daniel Harbour

LingLunch | Dalina Kallulli (Vienna)
3 November 2021

We welcome Dalina Kallulli (Vienna) to QMUL for her talk “Remarks on cognate objects”.

LingLunch | Suzana Fong (QMUL)
13 October 2021

Suzana Fong (QMUL) will be presenting her research.

LingLunch | Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus)
6 October 2021

We are pleased to welcome Phoevos Panagiotidis (University of Cyprus) to QMUL for his talk "Semantic features do not exist (and what a generative Theory of Features should look like)".  

Jenny Cheshire Lecture 2021 - Ideological work: How linguistic practices gain and lose authority (and for whom) - Prof. Susan Gal
Thursday, June 3, 2021, 4:30 PM

We are delighted to announce that Susan Gal, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, is this year's speaker at the annual Jenny Cheshire lecture. The lecture will run from 16:30-17:30, followed by a 30 minute Q&A.

Speaker: Susan Gal (University of Chicago)

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2021 - Why Some Well-Formed English Sentences are Impossible for Your Brain to Process - Prof. Janet D. Fodor
Thursday, May 20, 2021, 4:30 PM

Our department extends a warm welcome to our 2021 Randolph Quirk Fellow, Distinguished Professor Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center). Professor Fodor will deliver a public lecture with the details below.

Quirk Fellow 2021 - Workshops delivered by distinguished Prof. Janet Dean Fodor
Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 4:00 PM

Our department extends a warm welcome to our 2021 Randolph Quirk Fellow, Distinguished Professor Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center). Next to a public lecture, Professor Fodor will deliver a series of workshops.

Speaker: Prof. Janet Dean Fodor

Linguistics Seminar Series: Tough Stance
Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 4:30 PM

Speaker: Scott Kiesling

Linguistic Seminar Series - Signaling without Saying: The semantics and pragmatics of dogwhistles
Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 4:30 PM

Speaker: Elin McCready & Robert Henderson

PhD workshop: Preparing for the Job Market
Thursday, December 17, 2020, 10:30 AM

This workshop is aimed at PhD students who wish to learn how to maximize their chances in the Job market.

Speaker: Daniel Harbour & Sophie Holmes-Elliott

LingLunch: Learning to Recognize Dialect Features
Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 2:00 PM

Speaker: Dora Demszky

PhD workshop: Gorilla Demonstrations
Monday, December 14, 2020, 2:00 PM

A joint session for sociolinguists and experimental linguists on how to use the software Gorilla.

PhD workshop: Abstract writing
Friday, December 11, 2020, 2:00 PM

This workshop is aimed at PhD students who wish to learn how to write effective abstracts for presenting at conferences.

Speaker: Luisa Martí

Linguistic Seminar Series - Me, You and Language: Three essential perspectives on Phonetics and Phonologies
Wednesday, December 9, 2020, 4:30 PM

We have the pleasure to welcome James Scobbie (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh) to our linguistic seminar series.

Speaker: James Scobbie

Pre-registration in Linguistic Research
Thursday, December 3, 2020, 12:00 PM

Dr Timo Roettger (University of Oslo) will join our Experiential Linguistics Reading Group to give a short talk and Q&A about pre-registration.

Speaker: Timo Roettger

Sociolinguistic Theory In Times of Mobility – Devyani Sharma (ONLINE)
Friday, July 24, 2020, 1:00 PM

Devyani Sharma was invited by the Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN) to give an online talk entitled: The Exception Proves the Rule? Sociolinguistic Theory in Times of Mobility

Speaker: Devyani Sharma

The Morphosyntax of Slavic Aspect: A Spanning Approach
Thursday, March 26, 2020, 5:00 PM

Speaker: Arkadiusz Kwapiszewski (University of Oxford)

The wage penalty of regional accents
27 February 2020

An inter-disciplinary talk (Economics/Linguistics) organised in conjunction with our current Accent Bias project.

Sociolinguistics Talk Series
4 February 2020

We are pleased to announce a series of sociolinguistics talks on Monday 3rd February in People's Palace LG01 (nr 16 on this map).

Talk by Rebecca Starr
13 December 2019

Media and Hong Kong Protest | 6 December
6 December 2019

One of our PhD students, Adrian Yip, is organising a one-day event about the recent protests in Hong Kong.

LAGB 2019
9 September 2019

The 9th Annual Jenny Cheshire Lecture
7 June 2019

We are excited to welcome Professor Paul Foulkes from the Department of Linguistics at the University of York as this year's speaker at the annual Jenny Cheshire lecture. The lecture will run from 18:30-19:30, followed by a 30 minute question and answer session. We will then have a reception until 21:00 in the ArtsTwo lobby.

Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar | Brechtje Post (Cambridge)
15 May 2019

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Brechtje Post (Cambridge) will present some of her recent research.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2019 | Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware) | Public lecture
10 May 2019

We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. The public lecture is on Relations between language and thought.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2019 | Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware) | Workshop Three
9 May 2019

We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. This workshop is titled Events in language and cognition III: Pragmatic aspects of event encoding.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2019 | Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware) | Workshop Two
8 May 2019

We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. This workshop is titled Events in language and cognition II: Cross-linguistic perspectives.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2019 | Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware) | Workshop One
7 May 2019

We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. This workshop is titled Events in language and cognition I: The structure of event representations.

Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar | Ghada Khattab (Newcastle)
1 May 2019

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Ghada Khattab (Newcastle) will present some of her recent research.

Symposium | Reading beyond words: Approaches to multimodality in the media | 12 April 2019
12 April 2019

This one-day symposium aims to encourage dialogue across disciplines about the importance of a multimodal paradigm for investigating the media.

Special Invited Lecture | Kira Hall (University of Colorado Boulder)
4 April 2019

The LISS-DTP in collaboration with KCL and QMUL Linguistics are thrilled to welcome Professor Kira Hall (University of Colorado Boulder) for a special invited talk. Visit the link for abstract, speaker details, and ticketing information.

Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar | Ur Shlonsky (Genève)
27 March 2019

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Professor Ur Shlonsky (Genève) will present some of his recent research.

Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar | Elizabeth Stokoe (Loughborough)
6 March 2019

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Elizabeth Stokoe (Loughborough) will present some of her recent research.

Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar | Heather Burnett (CNRS-Université Paris Diderot)
6 February 2019

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Heather Burnett (Paris 7-Denis Diderot) will present some of her recent research.

Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar | Angelika Kratzer (UMass-Amherst)
28 November 2018

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Angelika Kratzer (UMass-Amherst) will present some of her recent research.

Cross-London Sociolinguistics Seminar | Language & the identification of “existential threats”
26 October 2018

For this CLSS event, we will be focusing on the notion of existential threats: how they are perceived, constructed and circulated textually and in interaction.

Linguistics Guest Speaker Seminar | Andrew Murphy (Leipzig)
24 October 2018

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Andrew Murphy (Leipzig) will present some of his recent research.

PhD viva workshop: Bare and not so bare
15 October 2018

On the occassion of Melisa Rinaldi's PhD viva voce, we will be hosting a workshop on her thesis topic. All welcome!

Special Invited Talk | John Edwards (St Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University)
11 June 2018

We are pleased to welcome John Edwards (St Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University) for an ad-hoc lecture on Language Claims and Language Rights.

The 8th Annual Jenny Cheshire Lecture
8 June 2018

We are excited to welcome Helen Kelly-Holmes, Professor of Applied Languages at the University of Limerick, as this year's speaker at the annual Jenny Cheshire lecture. The lecture will run from 18:30-19:30, followed by a 30 minute Q&A. We will then have a reception until 21:00 in the ArtsTwo lobby.

Postgraduate Research Afternoon
29 May 2018

For this afternoon, our first year PhD students will present the beginnings of their PhD research projects.

Micro-discourse Data Analysis Session | Melissa Bliss
23 May 2018

In this session, Melissa Bliss will provide data from a YouTube video made by an older person to discuss ageing identities

LingLunch | William A. Foley (Sydney)
17 May 2018

Professor William Foley (Sydney) will be visiting QMUL this week for an ad-hoc LingLunch on the parameters of polysynthesis.

Guest Speaker Seminar | Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow)
16 May 2018

As part of our invited guest speaker seminar series, we are pleased to welcome Professor Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow), who will be discussing sibilants and sound change in Glaswegian English.

Micro-discourse Data Analysis Session | Christian Ilbury
15 May 2018

In this session,Christian Ilbury will provide data from Snapchat stories collected during a period of fieldwork at a youth group in East London.

London Semantics Day 2018
15 May 2018

For the 5th London Semantics Day, we welcome scholars from across Europe to discuss their recent research. All welcome!

Special Invited Lecture | Asif Agha (UPenn)
10 May 2018

The LISS-DTP, in collaboration with QMUL Linguistics and KCL LDC, are thrilled to welcome Professor Asif Agha (UPenn) for a special invited talk. Click the event for abstract, speaker details, and ticketing information.

Guest Speaker Seminar | Janet Pierrehumbert (Oxford)
10 May 2018

As part of our invited guest speaker seminar series, we are pleased to welcome Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (Oxford) to QMUL.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Public lecture and film screening
3 May 2018

We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. The public lecture is on African American English and sounding black: Hot topics and debates. It will be followed by a screening of Talking Black in America. Click the event for more information and to reserve tickets.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Workshop Three
2 May 2018

We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. This workshop is on: Variation and development in child African American English.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Workshop Two
1 May 2018

We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. This workshop is on: Left periphery phenomena in African American English.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Workshop One
30 April 2018

We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. This workshop is on: Tense and aspect in African American English.

Postgraduate Research Afternoon
28 March 2018

For this afternoon, our first year PhD students will present the beginnings of their PhD research projects.

Phonetics Lab meeting | Nate Young presents
22 March 2018

In this phonetics lab meeting, PhD student Nate Young presents his work on a new forced alignment tool for Nordic languages, NordFA.

LingLunch | Danniella Samos (QMUL)
22 March 2018

PhD student Danniella Samos will be presenting her research on metaphors and obesity.

Guest Speaker Seminar | Danielle Turton (Newcastle)
21 March 2018

We are pleased to welcome Dr Danielle Turton to QMUL this week, who will give a talk titled: "t-flapping vs. glottalling in Lancashire, London and beyond: a sociophonological analysis of variation and change"

Phonetics Lab meeting | Rosie Oxbury presents
21 March 2018

Rosie Oxbury presents some ongoing analysis from her PhD research, titled: Old and new phonological variation in Multicultural London English.

Micro-discourse Data Analysis Session | Elvis Coimbra Gomes
14 March 2018

In this session, Elvis Coimbra Gomes will provide snippets from online forum messages written by male SO-OCD (Sexual Orientation Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) sufferers.

Conference | Gender in the Contemporary World: Articulation, Navigation and Change.
3 March 2018

Gender in the Contemporary World is a free one-day multidisciplinary conference focusing on how gender is conceptualised, navigated and articulated in the contemporary world. 

Special Workshop: Approaching Gender and Sexuality
15 February 2018

The Linguistics, Media and Culture Pathway of the London Interdisciplinary Social Science DTP is pleased to announce an upcoming student workshop on gender and sexuality in LMC research.  

Guest Speaker Seminar | Nino Grillo (York)
14 February 2018

As part of our Guest Seminar series, Dr Nino Grillo (York) will present some of his recent research.

Phonetics Lab Meeting
14 February 2018

Phonetics Lab Meeting | Scott Lewis
8 February 2018

This week, Scott Lewis presents.

PG Training Workshop | Abstract writing
7 February 2018

Luisa Marti will lead a workshop on abstract writing.

LingLunch | Shivonne Gates (QMUL)
7 February 2018

PhD student Shivonne Gates will be presenting her research on Multicultural London English.

Guest Speaker Seminar | Janet Pierrehumbert (Oxford)
24 January 2018

For our first Guest Speaker Seminar this spring, we are pleased to welcome Prof Janet Pierrehumbert (Oxford), who will be talking about social-indexical meaning in morphology.

SynSem Reading Group
12 December 2017

PG Training Workshop | Creating a website with Andy Law
29 November 2017

A strong online profile can provide a professional-looking home in which to present all the key information about your academic career (and more). It can work as a more engaging and potentially more expansive version of your CV. This workshop will cover the fundamentals of creating your multi-page profile using WordPress.com (creating a site with a URL like williamlabov.wordpress.com), as well as detail on how and why you might want to set up your own full domain (e.g. williamlabov.com). WordPress is a very widely-used and therefore well supported platform for creating blogs and websites. We’ll go through setting up your profile step by step and cover all the skills you need to continue to update and maintain your profile independently after the session. Please make sure to bring a laptop!

SynSem Reading Group
28 November 2017

LingLunch | Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin)
22 November 2017

As part of our LingLunch series, Michelle Sheehan will present some of her recent research, partly based on joint work with Sonia Cyrino, titled: “No escape hatch for A-movement: evidence from causative/perception verbs”   

Guest Speaker Seminar Series | Keir Moulton (Simon Fraser U.)
15 November 2017

We are pleased to welcome Dr Moulton (Simon Fraser University), who will present some of his recent research, C-command matters: the processing and grammar of co-varying pronouns.

LingLunch | Andrew Harvey (SOAS)
15 November 2017

As part of our LingLunch series, Andrew Harvey (SOAS) will present his recent research, Word-Markers and Paradigms in Gorwaa.

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