Speaker Series

The Linguistics Speaker Series is a series of invited talks, organized each semester by the grad students in the Penn Department of Linguistics. We invite students and professors from various subfields and various universities to speak about their current research. All talks are open to the greater Penn linguistics community.

For Fall 2008, the speaker series is organized by a member of ClubLing. You can see a list of past speakers here.

Schedule

Talks are held on Thursday afternoons in the IRCS Large Conference Room unless otherwise indicated. IRCS is at 3401 Walnut Street, 4th floor, suite 400A. Make two lefts out of the elevators, and the Large Conference Room is the very first door on the left within IRCS, room 470 (Directions|Parking|Map).

Announcements of talks are posted below, in the department, and to the Penguists mailing list.

4:30-5:00 Pre-Talk Reception and Refreshment

5:00-6:00 Talk

6:00-6:30 Question and Answer Period

6:30 Dinner (Join us as we take the speaker out to dinner!)

Speakers for Fall 2008:

October 2 - Barbara Bullock, Penn State University

Phonology/Language Contact
October 9 - Jason Kandybowicz, Swarthmore College

Syntax/Phonology
October 16 - Sherry Ash, University of Pennsylvania

Neurology
October 23 - Natascha Mueller, Universitat Wuppertal

Acquisition
October 30 - Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers

Syntax/Semantics
November 13 - Joe Eska, Virginia Tech

Historical/Typological
November 20 - Tonya Wolford, NC State

Sociolinguistics