Dear friends of BU Linguistics:
Greetings! I'm writing in my role as the Director of Public Relations for
BU Linguistics to invite you to the department's *spring colloquium series*.
Each is free and open to the public (further information including titles,
abstracts, and locations will be posted on our events calendar
<https://ling.bu.edu/events/>):
1. Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022 (5:00pm-6:00pm, RKC-101
<https://maps.bu.edu/?id=647#!m/528363?ct/>) - Nelson Flores
<https://www.gse.upenn.edu/academics/faculty-directory/flores>
(University of Pennsylvania)
2. Monday, Feb. 28, 2022 (4:30pm-5:30pm, location TBA) - Tracy Conner
<https://tracyconner.academia.edu/> (Northwestern University)
3. Monday, Mar. 28, 2022 (4:30pm-5:30pm, location TBA) - Najoung Kim
<https://najoungkim.github.io/> (New York University)
4. Monday, Apr. 25, 2022 (4:30pm-5:30pm, location TBA) - Norma
Mendoza-Denton <https://www.norma-mendoza-denton.com/> (University of
California, Los Angeles)
Questions can be directed to the co-chairs of the BU Linguistics Colloquium
Committee: Profs. Jon Barnes <http://ling.bu.edu/people/barnes/>, Danny
Erker <https://ling.bu.edu/people/erker/>, and Kate Lindsey
<https://ling.bu.edu/people/lindsey/>.
Please feel free to circulate to other friends of BU Ling who may not be on
this email list. Best wishes for a stimulating and productive spring
semester, and we hope to see you at one or more of these events!
Kind regards,
Charles
--
Director of Public Relations
Department of Linguistics
Boston University
email: lxpr(a)bu.edu
Dear friends of BU Linguistics:
Greetings! I'm writing in my role as the Director of Public Relations for
BU Linguistics to invite you to various in-person and virtual events that
the department is organizing this semester.
1. The *BU Linguistics Colloquium Series* will consist of four (in-person)
colloquia. Each is free and open to the public (flyer attached; further
information including titles and abstracts will be posted on our events
calendar <https://ling.bu.edu/events/>):
- September 27, 2021 (9:30am-10:30am, MCS 157) - Sarah Phillips
<https://sarahfphillips.com/> (New York University)
- October 12, 2021 (9:30am-10:30am, location TBA) - Myriam Dali
<https://ling.bu.edu/people/dali/> (Boston University)
- October 25, 2021 (9:30am-10:30am, location TBA) - Laura Kalin
<https://www.laurakalin.com/> (Princeton University)
- November 15, 2021 (9:30am-10:30am, location TBA) - Marlyse Baptista
<https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/marlysebaptista/> (University of Michigan)
Questions can be directed to the co-chairs of the Colloquium Committee:
Profs. Jon Barnes <http://ling.bu.edu/people/barnes/>, Danny Erker
<https://ling.bu.edu/people/erker/>, and Kate Lindsey
<https://ling.bu.edu/people/lindsey/>.
2. BU will be co-hosting (with MIT and the University of Applied Sciences
Burgenland) a *Virtual Workshop on L3 Development After the Initial State*
(L3-AIS) on Oct. 1-2, 2021. Registration is free for all attendees. Further
information can be found on the conference website
<https://sites.bu.edu/l3developmentworkshop/>.
3. BU will also be hosting the *46th Boston University Conference on
Language Development* (BUCLD 46) on Nov. 4-7, 2021, virtually via the Whova
platform. Registration is free for all current students. Further
information can be found on the conference website
<https://www.bu.edu/bucld/>.
Please feel free to circulate to other friends of BU Ling who may not be on
this email list. Best wishes for a stimulating and productive fall, and we
hope to see at one or more of these events!
Kind regards,
Charles
--
Director of Public Relations
Department of Linguistics
Boston University
email: lxpr(a)bu.edu
Dear list members:
Greetings! I'm writing on behalf of the Emerging Scholars Organizing
Committee at BU Linguistics <https://ling.bu.edu/> to invite you to our
Emerging Scholars Speaker Series this spring. This virtual talk series will
consist of six speakers:
- Feb. 26, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-5): Megan Figueroa
<http://meganfigueroa.com/> (U. of Arizona)
- "Rethinking English past tense overregularizations"
- Mar. 19, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Jhonnatan Rangel
<https://inalco.academia.edu/jhonnatanrangel> (INALCO Paris)
- "Words like the wind: Documenting variation in critically
endangered languages"
- Mar. 26, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Nandi Sims
<https://nandisims.github.io/> (Ohio State U.)
- "The effects of ethnic and social group identities on the
linguistic variation of Black middle schoolers"
- Apr. 2, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Gladys Camacho-Rios
<https://gladyscr26.wixsite.com/gladys-camacho-rios/home> (UT Austin)
- "Morphological variation in South Bolivian Quechua: A new approach
to Quechuan typology"
- Apr. 16, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Megan Burkhardt-Reed
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Megan_Burkhardt-Reed> (U. of
Memphis)
- "Exploring the roles of voice and gesture in early communication
development"
- Apr. 30, 2021 (3:30pm ET / UTC-4): Rachel Elizabeth Weissler
<https://sites.google.com/view/rachel-elizabeth-weissler> (U. of
Michigan)
- "How do our experiences influence perception? Exploring the
intersection of sociolinguistics and cognitive processing"
All talks are free and open to the public. Select talks will be
livestreamed on the BU Linguistics YouTube channel <http://bit.ly/bulingyt>.
To participate in the Q&A, advance registration is required at:
bit.ly/bulingspring21
These events are made possible by the financial support of BU's Office of
the Provost <https://www.bu.edu/provost/> and CAS Dean's Office
<https://www.bu.edu/cas/faculty-staff/dean-of-arts-sciences/>. Questions
may be directed to any member of the Emerging Scholars Organizing Committee
(Kate Lindsey <https://ling.bu.edu/people/lindsey>, Danny Erker
<https://ling.bu.edu/people/erker>, & Charles Chang
<https://ling.bu.edu/people/chang>). We hope to see you at one or more of
these events!
Kind regards,
Charles (on behalf of the Emerging Scholars Organizing Committee)
--
Charles B. Chang (he/him/his)
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Boston University
w: cbchang.com
Dear list members:
Greetings! I'm writing on behalf of the BU Linguistics Colloquium Committee
(myself, Megan Brown, and Genia Lukin) to invite you to our Fall 2020
Colloquium Series (see attached).
Prof. Kathryn Franich kicked off the series last Friday, and we have four
more exciting talks lined up -- on Oct. 23, Nov. 13, Nov. 20, and Dec. 4.
You can register for one or all of the colloquia here:
http://bit.ly/BULingColloq
Please let me know if you have any questions, and we hope to see you at one
or more of these events!
Kind regards,
Charles (on behalf of the Colloquium Committee)
--
Charles B. Chang (he/him/his)
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Boston University
w: cbchang.com
