Hi everyone,
See below! Please contact Alex Kohut directly if you have any questions.
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Dear Linguistics Enthusiasts,
Happy October! I'm writing on behalf of the organizing committee for
the *Boston
University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 45* to enlist your
help in making this year's conference a success!
For those of you who are unfamiliar, BUCLD is one of the largest
student-run linguistics conferences in the world. BUCLD is an
internationally recognized meeting of researchers in language acquisition
and development, including first and second language acquisition, language
disorders, bilingualism, and literacy development. You can read more about
the conference here <http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/>.
This year due to the strange circumstances we find ourselves in with the
pandemic, we plan to hold the conference virtually - the show must go on! -
November 5th - 8th. *But we cannot do it without your help!* We need
volunteers to moderate the question and answer periods for the
presentations. Volunteers will attend a brief one-hour training leading up
to the conference and then be assigned 2.5-3 hours over 1-2 shifts during
the conference.
This is a really great way to get an insider look at the conference and
have some visibility among some of the biggest names in acquisition
research, not to mention another line you can add to your CV. Also, for
those of you who may have volunteer hours requirements, volunteer hours
with BUCLD can count towards those!
When you are ready to sign-up, please visit our website at
http://www.bu.edu/bucld/conference-info/volunteers/ and fill out the
volunteer registration form with your availability and contact information.
I'll be in touch in mid-October with your shift assignment and to confirm
your availability.
If you have questions about volunteering, please don't hesitate to contact
me directly. Also, if you know of someone that is interested in
volunteering, please have them e-mail me at aekohut(a)bu.edu.
Thank you!
Alex
Thanks to all of you who have responded to our survey so far! There are
still three days left until the survey closes, at 5pm on Friday, April
24th, so please fill it out if you are interested in standing for election
to the Boston University Linguistics Association's E-Board.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsCaIABuKLZxT1MWcVGrKeC4TA_ZN5r3H…
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Dear BULAers
We hope everyone is staying safe and well. The Boston University
Linguistics Association is looking for members who might be interested in
standing for election to the club's E-Board. If you would be interested in
this, please fill out the short survey at the link below:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-Dbt_kUsSMND9TJ219MBp3fZkJ7Zqyxru_OVi12Kjx…
Thank you, and we hope to be able to see you all again in the Fall semester.
The E-Board
BULA
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Dear members of the Boston University Linguistics Association,
Please join us this evening at 6pm in School of Theology Room 318 for Game
Night! Games will be provided but feel free to bring your own too.
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Hi everyone,
Every fall, BU plays host to one of the biggest and most prestigious conferences on language acquisition in the world, Boston University Conference on Language Development, taking place in the GSU Thursday, November 7th to Sunday, November 10th. This is an incredible opportunity for you in be involved in the largest student-run language development conference in the world!
I am emailing to ask if you would like to volunteer (you receive FREE admission with 4-6 hours of volunteer work). If so, please reply to this e-mail so that I can mark you down as a definite volunteer. In the coming weeks, I will be sending a form of some kind for people to sign up for available times. Keep in mind that if you wish to see a particular presentation that you don't commit to volunteering at that time. A list of presenters is available here: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/. If you have already said you wanted to volunteer and have not yet received a similar e-mail to this one, PLEASE e-mail me as some e-mails did not go through.
A short description of each of the available volunteer tasks is provided below. I will be giving out jobs based on availability once everyone fills out the form in the next few weeks.
If you have questions about volunteering, please don't hesitate to contact me directly. If you know of someone that is interested on volunteering from your institution or department, please have them e-mail me at vidall(a)bu.edu<mailto:vidall@bu.edu>.
Volunteer Opportunities
Handbook copyediting
Several volunteers will be needed about two weeks or so before the conference to check the final draft of the conference handbook for errors before it is sent to print.
Folder assembling work party
Shortly before the conference, volunteers gather to assemble the folder of materials – nametags, handbook, etc. – that will be given to each person attending the conference. This usually takes less than 2 hours and is a decidedly social event. A date for the work party will be set in October.
Registration desk
We need students to staff the welcome and registration area at the conference, and to greet and register delegates as they arrive and help provide general orientation to the conference site. This requires a short training session.
Session Chairs
Session chairs work during the conference. In a team of 2-3 volunteers, Session chairs are responsible for the following tasks:
1) Introduce speakers
2) Monitor the timing of each talk
3) Oversee that the talk runs smoothly, and contact one of the conference organizers if help is needed.
Book Exhibit
The Book Exhibit volunteers will supervise a table of books sent by a Publisher. The volunteers will make sure the table is kept organized, and answer questions that conference attendees might have about the books. This information about the books will be provided to you upon arrival at the conference.
Thank you for your interest and for making it all the way to the end!
—
Lee-Ann Vidal Covas
PhD Student, Linguistics
Volunteer Chair, BUCLD 44
vidall(a)bu.edu<mailto:vidall@bu.edu>
She/her/hers
A reminder of today's BULA event: (RSVP here
https://www.facebook.com/events/340966183221810/)
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We hope to see you there! Also, a reminder to fill out the following form
if you are interested in running for an eboard position for the 2019-2020
academic year, or if you have ideas for future BULA events:
https://forms.gle/VqrJGqWv4XnELSyk7
Hi BU Linguistics Association members:
Please fill out the following form if you are interested in running for an
eboard position for the 2019-2020 academic year, or if you have ideas for
future BULA events:
https://forms.gle/VqrJGqWv4XnELSyk7
Thanks!
Dear linguists,
BULA's next event this semester, co-hosted with the Undergraduate Classics
Association, will be a lecture by *Prof. Sasha Nikolaev* on the *languages
of Middle-earth, specifically Elvish.* After the lecture, a* film
screening* follows,
with *free pizza* (sponsored by Distinguished Teaching Professor in the
Humanities Fund). Join us on *Thursday, April 18 at 5:30pm in CAS B12 *–
you can RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/340966183221810/
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We hope to see you at today's talk:
*The Linguistics of Existence*
*Peter Klapes, M.A. candidate in Philosophy (Boston College)*
*TODAY [Monday, April 8] at 5:45pm, CAS 225*
https://www.facebook.com/events/2203739999714132/
Not only is the talk exciting and interdisciplinary, it also showcases
student effort!
*Abstract: *It is said that the nature of the linguistic sign is arbitrary.
Since antiquity, the question of whether words are linked to their referent
by nature or merely by convention has persisted. In Plato’s *Cratylus*,
Socrates realizes that names are often imperfect in the naming of any
object. Later, sparking somewhat of a linguistic crisis, Friedrich
Nietzsche questioned the nature of truth and Ferdinand de Saussure
demonstrated that *signifiers* and *signifieds* share no inherent link.
This concept of linguistic arbitrariness will, in this talk, be connected
to philosophical, existential, and anthropological questions and
themes—including freedom, poetics, politics, and the nature of the
imagination.