Events archive

We are delighted to announce that Susan Gal, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, is this year's speaker at the annual Jenny Cheshire lecture. The lecture will run from 16:30-17:30, followed by a 30 minute Q&A.

Our department extends a warm welcome to our 2021 Randolph Quirk Fellow, Distinguished Professor Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center). Professor Fodor will deliver a public lecture with the details below.

Our department extends a warm welcome to our 2021 Randolph Quirk Fellow, Distinguished Professor Janet Dean Fodor (CUNY Graduate Center). Next to , Professor Fodor will deliver a series of workshops.

This workshop is aimed at PhD students who wish to learn how to maximize their chances in the Job market.

A joint session for sociolinguists and experimental linguists on how to use the software Gorilla.

This workshop is aimed at PhD students who wish to learn how to write effective abstracts for presenting at conferences.

We have the pleasure to welcome James Scobbie (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh) to our linguistic seminar series.

Dr Timo Roettger (University of Oslo) will join our Experiential Linguistics Reading Group to give a short talk and Q&A about pre-registration.

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

An inter-disciplinary talk (Economics/Linguistics) organised in conjunction with our current Accent Bias project.

We are pleased to announce a series of sociolinguistics talks on Monday 3rd February in People's Palace LG01 (nr 16 on this map).

One of our PhD students, Adrian Yip, is organising a one-day event about the recent protests in Hong Kong.

OCD in Society: Making Sense of a Hidden Illness

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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.

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Brechtje Post (Cambridge) will present some of her recent research.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Ghada Khattab (Newcastle) will present some of her recent research.

This one-day symposium aims to encourage dialogue across disciplines about the importance of a multimodal paradigm for investigating the media.

Special Invited Lecture | Kira Hall (University of Colorado Boulder)

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.

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Professor Ur Shlonsky (Genève) will present some of his recent research.

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As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Elizabeth Stokoe (Loughborough) will present some of her recent research.

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.

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As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Angelika Kratzer (UMass-Amherst) will present some of her recent research.

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.

Cross-London Sociolinguistics Seminar | Language & the identification of “existential threats”

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.

As part of the linguistics department's Guest Speaker Seminar series, Dr Andrew Murphy (Leipzig) will present some of his recent research.

On the occassion of Melisa Rinaldi's PhD viva voce, we will be hosting a workshop on her thesis topic. All welcome!

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.

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.

For this afternoon, our first year PhD students will present the beginnings of their PhD research projects.

In this session, Melissa Bliss will provide data from a YouTube video made by an older person to discuss ageing identities

Professor William Foley (Sydney) will be visiting QMUL this week for an ad-hoc LingLunch on the parameters of polysynthesis.

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.

In this session,Christian Ilbury will provide data from Snapchat stories collected during a period of fieldwork at a youth group in East London.

London Semantics Day 2018

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

Special Invited Lecture | Asif Agha (UPenn)

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.

As part of our invited guest speaker seminar series, we are pleased to welcome Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (Oxford) to QMUL.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Public lecture and film screening

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.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Workshop Three

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.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Workshop Two

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.

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2018 | Professor Lisa Green (UMass-Amherst) | Workshop One

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.

For this afternoon, our first year PhD students will present the beginnings of their PhD research projects.

In this phonetics lab meeting, PhD student Nate Young presents his work on a new forced alignment tool for Nordic languages, NordFA.

PhD student Danniella Samos will be presenting her research on metaphors and obesity.

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"

Rosie Oxbury presents some ongoing analysis from her PhD research, titled: Old and new phonological variation in Multicultural London English.

In this session, Elvis Coimbra Gomes will provide snippets from online forum messages written by male SO-OCD (Sexual Orientation Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) sufferers.

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. 

PhD student Zoe Adams will be presenting her research on the persuasive effects of British accents in improving children's oral health campaigns

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.  

As part of our Guest Seminar series, Dr Nino Grillo (York) will present some of his recent research.

We are pleased to welcome Alex Martin (Edinburgh) to QMUL for his talk on "Relating perception and production in contact-induced change"  

This week, Scott Lewis presents.

Luisa Marti will lead a workshop on abstract writing.

PhD student Shivonne Gates will be presenting her research on Multicultural London English.

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.

For our first LingLunch this spring, PhD student Melisa Rinaldi will be presenting her research "Bare Singulars."

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!

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”   

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.

As part of our LingLunch series, Andrew Harvey (SOAS) will present his recent research, Word-Markers and Paradigms in Gorwaa.