Events archive
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10 February 2021
20 January 2021
13 January 2021
17 December 2020
This workshop is aimed at PhD students who wish to learn how to maximize their chances in the Job market.
14 December 2020
A joint session for sociolinguists and experimental linguists on how to use the software Gorilla.
11 December 2020
This workshop is aimed at PhD students who wish to learn how to write effective abstracts for presenting at conferences.
9 December 2020
We have the pleasure to welcome James Scobbie (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh) to our linguistic seminar series.
3 December 2020
Dr Timo Roettger (University of Oslo) will join our Experiential Linguistics Reading Group to give a short talk and Q&A about pre-registration.
24 July 2020
was invited by the Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN) to give an online talk entitled: The Exception Proves the Rule? Sociolinguistic Theory in Times of Mobility
27 February 2020
An inter-disciplinary talk (Economics/Linguistics) organised in conjunction with our current Accent Bias project.
5 February 2020
4 February 2020
We are pleased to announce a series of sociolinguistics talks on Monday 3rd February in People's Palace LG01 (nr 16 on this map).
6 December 2019
One of our PhD students, Adrian Yip, is organising a one-day event about the recent protests in Hong Kong.

8 June 2019
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7 June 2019
We are excited to welcome Professor Paul Foulkes from the Department of Linguistics at the University of York as this year's speaker at the annual Jenny Cheshire lecture. The lecture will run from 18:30-19:30, followed by a 30 minute question and answer session. We will then have a reception until 21:00 in the ArtsTwo lobby.
15 May 2019
As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Brechtje Post (Cambridge) will present some of her recent research.
10 May 2019
We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. The public lecture is on Relations between language and thought.
9 May 2019
We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. This workshop is titled Events in language and cognition III: Pragmatic aspects of event encoding.
8 May 2019
We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. This workshop is titled Events in language and cognition II: Cross-linguistic perspectives.
7 May 2019
We are delighted that our 2019 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Anna Papafragou (Delaware). She will be visiting the department from 7-10 May. Professor Papafragou will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture. This workshop is titled Events in language and cognition I: The structure of event representations.
1 May 2019
As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Ghada Khattab (Newcastle) will present some of her recent research.
12 April 2019
This one-day symposium aims to encourage dialogue across disciplines about the importance of a multimodal paradigm for investigating the media.

4 April 2019
The LISS-DTP in collaboration with KCL and QMUL Linguistics are thrilled to welcome Professor Kira Hall (University of Colorado Boulder) for a special invited talk. Visit the link for abstract, speaker details, and ticketing information.
27 March 2019
As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Professor Ur Shlonsky (Genève) will present some of his recent research.
13 March 2019
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6 March 2019
As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Elizabeth Stokoe (Loughborough) will present some of her recent research.
6 February 2019
As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Heather Burnett (Paris 7-Denis Diderot) will present some of her recent research.
28 November 2018
As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Angelika Kratzer (UMass-Amherst) will present some of her recent research.
21 November 2018
Devyani Sharma and Jonathan Kasstan will provide information and resources on different job types (postdoc, research, teaching etc) and strategies for finding a job in linguistics.

26 October 2018
For this CLSS event, we will be focusing on the notion of existential threats: how they are perceived, constructed and circulated textually and in interaction.
24 October 2018
As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Andrew Murphy (Leipzig) will present some of his recent research.
15 October 2018
On the occassion of Melisa Rinaldi's PhD viva voce, we will be hosting a workshop on her thesis topic. All welcome!
15 October 2018
11 June 2018
We are pleased to welcome John Edwards (St Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University) for an ad-hoc lecture on Language Claims and Language Rights.
8 June 2018
We are excited to welcome Helen Kelly-Holmes, Professor of Applied Languages at the University of Limerick, as this year's speaker at the annual Jenny Cheshire lecture. The lecture will run from 18:30-19:30, followed by a 30 minute Q&A. We will then have a reception until 21:00 in the ArtsTwo lobby.
29 May 2018
For this afternoon, our first year PhD students will present the beginnings of their PhD research projects.
23 May 2018
In this session, Melissa Bliss will provide data from a YouTube video made by an older person to discuss ageing identities
17 May 2018
Professor William Foley (Sydney) will be visiting QMUL this week for an ad-hoc LingLunch on the parameters of polysynthesis.
16 May 2018
As part of our invited guest speaker seminar series, we are pleased to welcome Professor Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow), who will be discussing sibilants and sound change in Glaswegian English.
15 May 2018
In this session,Christian Ilbury will provide data from Snapchat stories collected during a period of fieldwork at a youth group in East London.

15 May 2018
For the 5th London Semantics Day, we welcome scholars from across Europe to discuss their recent research. All welcome!

10 May 2018
The LISS-DTP, in collaboration with QMUL Linguistics and KCL LDC, are thrilled to welcome Professor Asif Agha (UPenn) for a special invited talk. Click the event for abstract, speaker details, and ticketing information.
10 May 2018
As part of our invited guest speaker seminar series, we are pleased to welcome Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (Oxford) to QMUL.

3 May 2018
We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. The public lecture is on African American English and sounding black: Hot topics and debates. It will be followed by a screening of Talking Black in America. Click the event for more information and to reserve tickets.

2 May 2018
We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. This workshop is on: Variation and development in child African American English.

1 May 2018
We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. This workshop is on: Left periphery phenomena in African American English.

30 April 2018
We are delighted that our 2018 Randolph Quirk Fellow will be Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst). She will be visiting the department from 30 April - 4 May. Professor Green will be delivering a series of workshops, as well as a public lecture followed by a film screening. This workshop is on: Tense and aspect in African American English.
28 March 2018
For this afternoon, our first year PhD students will present the beginnings of their PhD research projects.
22 March 2018
In this phonetics lab meeting, PhD student Nate Young presents his work on a new forced alignment tool for Nordic languages, NordFA.
22 March 2018
PhD student Danniella Samos will be presenting her research on metaphors and obesity.
21 March 2018
We are pleased to welcome Dr Danielle Turton to QMUL this week, who will give a talk titled: "t-flapping vs. glottalling in Lancashire, London and beyond: a sociophonological analysis of variation and change"
21 March 2018
Rosie Oxbury presents some ongoing analysis from her PhD research, titled: Old and new phonological variation in Multicultural London English.
14 March 2018
In this session, Elvis Coimbra Gomes will provide snippets from online forum messages written by male SO-OCD (Sexual Orientation Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) sufferers.
3 March 2018
Gender in the Contemporary World is a free one-day multidisciplinary conference focusing on how gender is conceptualised, navigated and articulated in the contemporary world.
1 March 2018
PhD student Zoe Adams will be presenting her research on the persuasive effects of British accents in improving children's oral health campaigns
1 March 2018
15 February 2018
The Linguistics, Media and Culture Pathway of the London Interdisciplinary Social Science DTP is pleased to announce an upcoming student workshop on gender and sexuality in LMC research.
14 February 2018
As part of our Guest Seminar series, Dr Nino Grillo (York) will present some of his recent research.
12 February 2018
We are pleased to welcome Alex Martin (Edinburgh) to QMUL for his talk on "Relating perception and production in contact-induced change"
7 February 2018
Luisa Marti will lead a workshop on abstract writing.
7 February 2018
PhD student Shivonne Gates will be presenting her research on Multicultural London English.
24 January 2018
For our first Guest Speaker Seminar this spring, we are pleased to welcome Prof Janet Pierrehumbert (Oxford), who will be talking about social-indexical meaning in morphology.
24 January 2018
For our first LingLunch this spring, PhD student Melisa Rinaldi will be presenting her research "Bare Singulars."
29 November 2017
A strong online profile can provide a professional-looking home in which to present all the key information about your academic career (and more). It can work as a more engaging and potentially more expansive version of your CV. This workshop will cover the fundamentals of creating your multi-page profile using WordPress.com (creating a site with a URL like williamlabov.wordpress.com), as well as detail on how and why you might want to set up your own full domain (e.g. williamlabov.com). WordPress is a very widely-used and therefore well supported platform for creating blogs and websites. We’ll go through setting up your profile step by step and cover all the skills you need to continue to update and maintain your profile independently after the session. Please make sure to bring a laptop!
22 November 2017
As part of our LingLunch series, Michelle Sheehan will present some of her recent research, partly based on joint work with Sonia Cyrino, titled: “No escape hatch for A-movement: evidence from causative/perception verbs”
15 November 2017
We are pleased to welcome Dr Moulton (Simon Fraser University), who will present some of his recent research, C-command matters: the processing and grammar of co-varying pronouns.
15 November 2017
As part of our LingLunch series, Andrew Harvey (SOAS) will present his recent research, Word-Markers and Paradigms in Gorwaa.