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School of Languages, Linguistics and Film

Events

We host a range of weekly and annual events, including:

  • Departmental Guest Speaker Seminar Series
  • Postgraduate Research Afternoons
  • LingLunch talk series
  • reading groups for formal linguistics, sociolinguistics, and experimental linguistics
  • the annual Jenny Cheshire Lecture
  • the annual London Semantics Day
  • Randolph Quirk Fellow workshops and public lecture

Stay up-to-date

We maintain a google calendar with complete details of all upcoming and past events. To receive email announcements of all QMUL Linguistics Events, subscribe to linguistics-research@qmul.ac.uk at QMULs listserver. QMUL staff and students can self-subscribe, while external people should send a request to ling-events-admin@qmul.ac.uk to be added.

You can also follow us on Facebook, Bluesky and X (formerly Twitter).

If you have issues with any of these links or pages, please email ling-events-admin@qmul.ac.uk

How to find us

Events take place in various buildings around the Mile End Campus, including ArtsOne (37), ArtsTwo (35), Francis Bancroft Building (31) and the Graduate Centre (18) highlighted on the map below. For a more detailed campus map including a legend, visit this link.

A cropped map of the Mile End campus, highlighting buildings that the linguistics department uses the most

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

An informal presentation by our academic staff member Dr Adam Chong.

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.

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.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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 the next instalment of our Jenny Cheshire Lecture Series. 

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

Our MA students will present their research to the department.

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