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Past Workshops and Colloquia

Explore the workshops and colloquia previously given by the Linguistics Program at South Carolina. What are we up to now? Browse our upcoming events.

2024

April 13

Graduate Students Linguistics Research Symposium

2023

April 8
Graduate Students Linguistics Research Symposium

February 3
Professional Development Workshop Series: "Data Analysis Tools"
Paige Keuster, Drew Crosby, Hannah Catron, Sarah Wilson, Shana Scucchi

2022

November 4-6
The 5th biennial conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA-5)

November 7
Lecture: The Scandal of the ‘How-To-Write’ Industry
Geoffrey Pullum

November 8
Lecture: Racism and the Relevance of African American English
Geoffrey Pullum

Lecture Series Highlighting Deaf Language: The Linguistics Program, with funding from the College of Arts and Sciences, hosted a lecture series highlighting deaf language. All lectures presented in both ASL and in spoken English. The event was open to all USC students/faculty and the greater Columbia and Deaf Communities.

  • November 21: Roger Williams “Introduction to Deaf Studies”
  • November 22: Sherry Williams “Deaf Culture and History”

2021

March 19
Professional Development Workshop Series: "Online Presence"
Amanda Dalola & Nina Moreno

April 9
Professional Development Workshop Series: "Navigating Institutional Hierarchies and Networking"
Stan Dubinsky & Mila Tasseva

April 16
Colloquium: Martin Pickering

April 23
Colloquium: Ellen Bialystok

April 30
Colloquium: Lise Dobrin

May 27
Professional Development Workshop: CVs
3:00-4:30 pm
Location: Zoom

June 24
Professional Development Workshop: Job ads and cover letters
4:00-5:30 pm
Location: Zoom

July 22
Professional Development Workshop: Statements (teaching/diversity)
4:00-5:30 pm
Location: Zoom

October 1
Colloquium: “Little Words” in Context and in Contact: Pragmatic Markers in Kwéyòl Donmnik, English, and French [pdf]
Joy Peltier, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan
2:00-3:30 pm
Location: Zoom

October 15
Professional Development Workshop: "Applying for Fellowships: When, Why, and How”
Matt Klopfenstein, National Fellowships Coordinator, University of South Carolina
3:00-4:00 pm
Location: Zoom

October 29
Colloquium: "Representing Events in Language and Cognition”
Anna Papafragou, Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
2:00-3:30 pm
Location: Zoom 

November 6
GSLING Student Research Symposium (SRS) Brown Bag [pdf]
9:00-4:00 pm
Location: Close-Hipp Building 008

November 12
Colloquium: Title TBD
Kanan Luce, Linguistics Program, University of South Carolina 
Time/Location TBD 

2020

January 2 - 5
Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana

March 19
World Languages Day

September 14
Ph.D. Defense: Brianna Cornelius, "Talkin’ Black and Sounding Gay: An Examination of the Construction of a Multiplex Identity via Intraspeaker Variation"

September 25
Professional Development Workshop: "How to Turn Your Course Paper into a Publishable Manuscript"
Amit Almor, Anne Bezuidenhout, and Kurt Goblirsch

October 23
Colloquium: “The Origin of Language and the Oldest Words in the World”
Anatoly Liberman, Visiting Scholar from the University of Minnesota

October 30
Professional Development Workshop: "Linguistics in the time of COVID"
Jennifer Reynolds and Mila Tasseva

November 6
Workshop, "The State of Historical Phonology" 
Anatoly Liberman, Visiting Scholar from the University of Minnesota

November 7
Student Research Symposium

November 13
PhD Defense: Danielle Fahey, The Shape of the Bilingual Mental Lexicon: Testing the Cognate Continuum

November 20
Colloquium, "Beating a willing horse: the origin of our idioms"
Anatoly Liberman, University of Minnesota

2019

January 3 – 6
Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, New York

February 8
Colloquium, “Linguistic Entrenchment and the Effect of Subjective Lexical Familiarity in Korean /n/-insertions”
Stanley Dubinsky and Jiyeon Song

February 22
Colloquium,“The effects of focus on quantifier scope in Korean negation” and Keiko Bridwell “Hwhat did you say?: An acoustic analysis of the whine-wine merger in unscripted Southern American speech”
Dennis Park

February 28
"Talking Black in America” screening and Q&A panel 
Tracey Weldon

April 12
Colloquia
Angelina Rubina, Mila Tasseva-Kurktchieva

August 30
Colloquium
Pete Nelson

September 9
Additive Dialect Workshop
Price L. Lassahn-Worrell

September 27
Colloquium, "Aural You Crazy? Revisiting Leow et al. (2008) in the Aural Mode"
Sam Hackworth


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