The Linguistics Speaker Series is a series of invited talks, organized each semester by the grad students in the Penn Department of Linguistics. We invite students and professors from various subfields and various universities to speak about their current research. All talks are open to the greater Penn linguistics community.
Schedule
Talks are held on Friday Mornings. Please see the "upcoming events" entry on the Linguistics Department web-site for time and location.
Speakers for Fall 2024:
October 25th: Ann Bradlow - Northwestern University
November 8th: Fabiola Henri - University of Buffalo
November 22nd: Alexis Wellwood - University of Southern California
December 6th: Sharese King - University of Chicago
Speakers for Spring 2024:
March 29th: Savithry Namboodiripad - University of Michigan
April 5th: Gavin Bidelman - Indiana University, Bloomington
April 19th: Dorothy Ahn - Rutgers University
April 26th: Canaan Breiss - University of Southern California
Speakers for Fall 2023:
October 20th: Cynthia Clopper - Ohio State University
November 10th: Asia Pietraszko - University of Rochester
December 1st: Ellen Lau - University of Maryland
December 8th: Kathryn Davidson - Harvard University
Speakers for Spring 2023:
February 17th: Lynn Clark - University of Canterbury
March 24th: Janet Van Hell - Penn State University
April 14th: Mark Baker - Rutgers University
April 21st: Jason Bishop - CUNY
Speakers for Fall 2022:
October 20th: Ksenia Ershova - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 27th: Una Stojnic - Princeton University
December 1st: Jennifer Cole - Northwestern University
December 8th: Brian Dillon - Umass - Amherst
Speakers for Spring 2022:
April 14th: Tal Linzen - New York University
April 21st: Colin Phillips - University of Maryland
April 28th: Annette D'Onofrio - Northwestern University (Virtual)
Speakers for Fall 2021:
September 16th: Devyani Sharma - Queen Mary University of London (Virtual)
October 28th: Athulya Aravind - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Virtual)
November 18th: Jon Sprouse - University of Connecticut (Virtual)
December 2nd: Matt Goldrick - Northwestern University (Virtual)
Speakers for Spring 2021:
January 28th: Isabelle Charnavel - Harvard University (Virtual due to Covid)
February 25th: Sophie Holmes-Elliott - Queen Mary Univ. of London (Virtual due to Covid)
March 25th: Michael Wagner - McGill University (Virtual due to Covid)
April 22nd: Mariapaola D'Imperio - Rutgers University (Virtual due to Covid)
Speakers for Fall 2020:
October 8th: Magdalena Kaufmann - U-Conn (Virtual due to Covid)
November 5th: Gary Thoms - NYU (Virtual due to Covid)
November 19th: Ricardo Bermudez-Otero - Univ. of Manchester (Virtual due to Covid)
December 3rd: Jim McCloskey - UC Santa Cruz (Virtual due to Covid)
Speakers for Spring 2020:
February 20th: Jennifer Nycz - Georgetown
March 19th: Naomi Feldman - Maryland (Cancelled due to University Closure)
April 9th: Gary Thoms - NYU (Cancelled due to University Closure)
Speakers for Fall 2019:
October 3rd: Alec Marantz - NYU
October 17th: Donka Farkas - UC Santa Cruz
October 31st: Patrice Beddor - Univ. of Michigan
November 14th: Kirk Hazen - West Virginia Univ.
Speakers for Spring 2019:
Faculty Search candidate presentations replaced the Speaker Series for Spring, 2019.
Speakers for Fall 2018:
September 20th: Liina Pylkkanen - NYU
November 1st: Laurel MacKenzie - NYU
November 15th: Jim Wood - Yale
December 6th: Lisa Davidson - NYU
Speakers for Spring 2018:
January 18th: Laura Kalin - Princeton
February 22nd: Juliette Blevins - CUNY
March 29th: Christina Tortora - CUNY
April 5th: Mandy Simons - Carnegie Mellon
April 19th: Craige Roberts - Ohio State
Speakers for Fall 2017:
October 12th: Jonathan Bobaljik - University of Connecticut
November 2nd: Hadas Kotek - New York University
November 16th: Jeffery Heinz - Stony Brook University
December 7th: Juliet Stanton - New York University
Speakers for Spring 2017:
April 7th: David Lightfoot - Georgetown University
April 21st: Arthur Samuel - Stony Brook University
April 28th: Andries Coetzee - University of Michigan
Speakers for Fall 2016:
September 16th: Abby Walker (Sociolinguistics, Phonetics) - Virginia Tech.
September 30th: Željko Bošković (Syntax) - U-Conn
October 21st: Mark Aronoff (Morphology) - Stony Brook
November 11th: Roger Schwarzschild (Semantics) - MIT
November 18th: Karlos Arregi (Syntax, Morphology) - U-Chicago
December 9th: Robert Berwick (Computational Linguistics) - MIT
Speakers for Spring 2016:
March 31st: Aaron Rubin (Historical Ling) - Penn State
April 7th: Mark Tiede (Phonetics) - Haskins
April 14th: Rajesh Bhatt (Syntax/Semantics) - UMass
April 21st: Valentine Hacquard (Semantics/Pragmatics/Syntax) - University of Maryland
May 5th: Angelika Kratzer (Semantics) - UMass
Speakers for Fall 2015:
October 1st: Richard Kayne (Syntax) - NYU
October 15th: Norvin Richards (Syntax) - MIT
November 5th: Abby Cohn (Phonology, Phonetics) - Cornell University
November 19th: Neil Myler (Morphology, Syntax) - BU
December 3rd: Andrea Beltrama (Semantics, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics) - University of Chicago
Speakers for Spring 2015:
January 22nd: Maria Gouskova; NYU
January 29th: Elizabeth Zsiga; Georgetown
February 19th: Susan Fischer; CUNY
February 26th: Lisa Green; UMass
March 26th: Raffaella Zanuttini; Yale
April 23rd: Bill Haddican; CUNY
Speakers for Fall 2014:
September 11th: Gaurav Mathur (Sign language) - Gallaudet University
October 16th: Susi Wurmbrand (Syntax) - University of Connecticut
October 30th: Joseph Eska (Historical) - Virginia Tech
November 13th: Walt Wolfram (Sociolinguistics) - North Carolina State University
November 20th: Andrea Calabrese (Morphology/Phonology) - University of Connecticut
December 4th: Sarah Murray (Semantics/Pragmatics) - Cornell University
Click here to view a list of invited speakers before Fall 2014.