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 Spring 2008, the speaker series is organized by . 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 Spring 2008:

March 20 - Eric Bakovic, UCSD

Phonology
March 27 - Lisa Davidson, New York University

Phonology
April 3 - Keren Rice, University of Toronto

Phonology
April 10 - David Sutcliffe, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Sociolinguistics
April 24 - Ofer Tchernichovski, City College of New York

Vocal Learning
May 1 - Jennifer Bloomquist, Gettysburg College

Sociolinguistics
May 8 - Roger Schwarzschild, Rutgers

Semantics