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Language Science Lunch Talks

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Food and ideas bring people together. Our weekly lunch talk series provides students and faculty with the opportunity to present their work to a supportive, interdisciplinary audience. The goal is to provide a space where language scientists from across campus can learn about each other’s work and the kinds of questions different disciplines raise, and find opportunities for future collaborations.

Talks take place at the Language Science Center in 2130 H.J. Patterson. Lunch is provided!

Please review our Community Guidelines to learn about productive ways to interact with students and faculty from different departments.

Schedules

Spring 2026

Date

Speaker

January 29th

Laura Mahalingappa (TLPL)

February 5th

Reading Group

February 12th

Debbie Chen Pichler (Gallaudet)

February 19th

Reading Group

February 26th

Philip Resnik (LING/UMIACS) and Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox (Georgetown)

March 5th

Reading Group

March 12th

Victoria Chang (INFO)

March 26th

Reading Group

April 2nd

Jennifer Markfeld (Vanderbilt)

April 9th

Reading Group

April 23rd

Mal Shah (LING)

April 30th

Reading Group

May 8th

Jared Novick (HESP)

 

Fall 2025

Date

Speaker

September 4th

Kate Mooney (LING)

September 11th

Sanshiroh Ogawa (SLLC)

September 18th

No Talk (Head to Language Science Day this week instead!)

September 25th

Reading Group

October 2nd

Stacey Kane (HESP)

October 9th

Reading Group

October 16th

Elisa Gironzetti (SLLC)

October 23rd

Discussion Group

October 30th

Alexus Ramirez (LEAD)

November 6th

Reading Group

November 13th

Megh Krishnaswamy (EDSI)

November 20th

Reading Group

November 27th

No Talk (Thanksgiving Break)

December 4th

Weizhen Xie (PSYC/BBI)

December 11th

Reading Group

 

Spring 2025

Date

Speaker

January 30th

Xinchi Yu (NACS)

February 6th

Stephanie Valencia (INFO)

February 13th

Katherine Howitt (LING)

February 20th

Science in Uncertain Times: Supporting, Defending, & Advocating Together

March 6th

Job Talk

March 13th

Job Talk

April 3rd

Julie Sedivy (Author of Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love)

April 10th

Erik Nesse (ARLIS)

April 17th

Susannah Paletz (INFO)

April 24th

Omar Agha (LING)

May 1st

Kuan-Jung Huang (HESP)

May 8th

Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah (HESP)

May 15th

Min Wang (HDQM)

 

 

Fall 2024

Date

Speaker

August 29th

Rochelle Newman (HESP)

September 5th

Colin Phillips (LING/Oxford)

September 12th

Sarah Phillips (Georgetown)

September 26th

Jinglei Ren (HDQM)

October 3rd

Jennifer Rae Myers (HESP)

October 10th

Shevaun Lewis (LSC)

October 17th

Mine Muezzinoglu (NACS)

October 24th

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (ENGL)

October 31st

Jing Liu (TLPL)

November 7th

William Idsardi (LING)

November 14th

Clara Cuonzo (LING)

November 21st

Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova (HDQM)

December 5th

Aron Hirsch (LING)

December 12th

José Ortiz (HESP)

Spring 2024

Date

Speaker

February 1st

Rasha Alkhateeb (TLPL)

February 8th

Ellen Lau (LING)

February 15th

Sathvik Nair (LING)

February 29th

Bob Slevc (PSYC)

March 7th

Michael Israel (ENGL)

March 14th

Lorna Quandt (Gallaudet)

March 28th

Joselyn Rodriguez (LING)

April 4th

John Scott (SLLC)

April 11th

Sophie Domanski (HESP)

April 18th

Jonet Artis (HESP)

April 26th

Alexander Williams (LING)

May 2nd

Marine Carpuat (CS)

May 9th

Jared Novick (HESP)

Fall 2023

Date

Speaker

August 31st

Student Meeting

September 7th

Jeff Lidz (LING)

September 14th

Yi Ting Huang (LSC/HESP)

September 21st

Jordan Boyd-Graber (CS/UMIACS/LSC)

September 28th

Ellen Lau (LING)

October 5th

Fabrizio Cariani (PHIL)

October 12th

Rachel Romeo (HDQM)

October 19th

No Talk

October 26th

Allison Dods (LING) and Shevaun Lewis (MLSC)

November 2nd

No Talk

November 9th

Rachel Rudinger (CS)

November 16th

Shenika Hankerson (TLPL)

November 30th

Bronson Hui (SLA)

December 7th

Valentine Hacquard (LING)

December 14th

Philip Resnik (LING/UMIACS)

Spring 2023

Date

Speaker

March 16

Kelly Marshall (HESP)

April 13th

Outreach Demo Training

April 27th

Saahiti Potluri (CLIP/UMIACS)

Fall 2022

Date

Speaker

September 9th

Student Meeting

September 15th

No Talk

September 22nd

Summer Research at the Language Science Station with Rosa Lee and Katherine Howwitt (LING), et al. 

September 29th

Academic Job Applications with Meg Cychosz (Postdoc, HESP) 

October 6th

Chenglei Si (CS/LING)

October 13th

Utku Turk (LING)

October 20th

Lauren Salig (NACS)

October 27th

No Talk

November 3rd

No Talk

November 10th

Micheline Wilson (SLA)

Spring 2022

Date

Speaker

February 24th

Sandra Sandoval (CS)

March 10th

Rosa Lee (LING)

March 17th

Mireia Toda Cosi (SLA)

April 14th

Zach Maher, Junaid Merchant, Lauren Salig (NACS), Yi Ting Huang (HESP) & Shevaun Lewis (LSC)

April 21st

Christina Blomquist (HESP)

April 28th

Masato Nakamura (LING)

May 5th

Katharine Glanbock (TLPL)

May 12th

Neha Joshi (ECE)

Fall 2021

Date

Speaker

September 9th

Erika Exton, Kathleen Oppenheimer (HESP), Lauren (NACS), and Craig Thorburn (LING)

September 16th

No Talk

September 23rd

Xinchi Yu (NACS)

September 30th

Rachel Romeo (HDQM)

October 7th

Craig Thorburn (LING), moderated by Jeff Lidz (LING)

October 14th

Arynn Byrd (HESP), moderated by Rochelle Newman (HESP)

October 21st

Meg Cychosz (Postdoc, HESP), moderated by Jeff Lidz (LING)

October 28th

Yu'an Yang (LING), moderated by Jan Edwards (HESP)

November 4th

Charlotte Vaughn (LSC)

November 11th

Lauren Salig (NACS), moderated by Jan Edwards (HESP)

November 18th

Adam Liter (LING), moderated by Min Wang (HDQM)

December 2nd

Erika Exton (HESP), moderated by Bob Slevc (PSYC)

December 9th

Zach Maher (NACS), moderated by Jeff Lidz (LING)

December 16th

Tal Ness (Postdoc, HESP)

Spring 2021

TBA

 

Fall 2020

TBA

 

Spring 2020

Date

Speaker

January 30th

Student Meeting

February 6th

Zara Harmon (LING/UMIACS)

February 13th

No Talk

February 20th

HESP Recruitment with Aaron Doliana (HESP)

February 27th

LING Recruitment with Patrick Plummer (LING)

March 5th

Jo Shoemaker (CS) and Erika Exton (HESP)

March 12th

Adam Fishbein (NACS)

March 26th

Michelle Erskine (HESP)

April 2nd

Yu'an Yang (LING) 

April 9th

Zach Maher (NACS)

April 16th

Zoe Ovans (LING)

April 23rd

Adam Liter (LING)

April 30th

Neha Joshi (ECE)

May 7th

Phoebe Gaston (LING)

May 14th

Allie Johnson and Julianne Garbarino (HESP)

Fall 2019

Date

Speaker

August 29th

Student Meeting

September 5th

Julie Sweetland (FrameWorks Institute)

September 19th

No Talk

September 26th

Jana Reifegerste (Georgetown)

October 3rd

Andrés Buxo-Lugo (PSYC)

October 10th

Paulina Lyskawa (LING)

October 17th

Christina Blomquist (HESP)

October 24th

Hanna Muller (LING)

October 31st

Tyler Knowlton (LING)

November 7th

No Talk

November 14th

Kathleen Oppenheimer (HESP)

November 21st

No Talk

December 5th

LSC Town Hall

Spring 2019

Date

Speaker

February 7th

Dawn Culpepper and KerryAnn O'Meara (CHSE)

February 14th

Allie Johnson (HESP)

February 21st

Julianne Garbarino (HESP)

February 28th

Adam Fishbein (NACS)

March 7th

Anouk Dieuleveut (LING)

March 14th

Mina Hirzel (LING) and Zach Maher (NACS)

March 28th

Michelle Erskine (HESP) and Yu'an Yang (LING)

April 4th

Adam Liter (LING)

April 11th

No Talk (Social Justice Day)

April 18th

Annie Yixun Li (HDQM) and Neha Joshi (ECE)

April 25th

Shenika Hankerson (TLPL)

May 2nd

Zoe Ovans (LING)

May 9th

No Talk (Mayfest)

May 16th

Basak Karatas (SLA)

Fall 2018

Date

Speaker

August 30th

Graduate Student Committee Meeting

September 6th

Graduate Student Ombudsman

September 13th

Amritha Malilikarjun (NACS)

September 27th

Angelica Buerkin-Salgado (U Penn)

October 4th

Kasia Hitzcenko (LING)

October 11th

Nick Huang (LING)

October 18th

Jo Shoemaker (CS)

October 25th

No Talk

November 1st

Paulina Lyskawa (LING)

November 8th

Phoebe Gaston (LING)

November 15th

CANCELLED: Mina Hirzel (LING)

November 29th

Tyler Knowlton (LING)

December 6th

Laurel Perkins (LING)

December 13th

Sudha Rao (CS), Phoebe Gaston (LING), and Hanna Muller (LING)

Spring 2018

Date

Speaker

February 1st

Outreach Meeting

Febraury 8th

Policy Meeting

February 15th

LSF/NRT Information Session

February 22nd

Nick Huang (LING) and Allie Johnson (HESP)

March 1st

Tyler Knowlton (LING)

March 8th

Sudha Rao (CS)

March 15th

Writing Workshop

March 29th

Yogarshi Vyas (CS)

April 5th

Anton Malko (LING)

April 12th

Julianne Garbarino (HESP)

April 19th

Zoe Ovans (LING)

April 26th

Karen Feagin (TLPL) and Neha Joshi (ECE)

May 3rd

Laurel Perkins (LING)

May 10th

Rachel Adler (NACS) and Michelle Erskine (HESP)

May 17th

Adam Fishbein (NACS)

 

 

Fall 2017

Date

Speaker

August 31st

Admin Meeting

September 7th

Rodrigo Ranero and Paulina Lyskawa (LING)

September 14th

No Talk

September 21st

Allyson Ettinger (LING/CS)

September 28th

Jeffrey Green (LING)

October 5th

Brittany Patrick (CHSE/ProPELL)

October 12th

Rachel Adler (NACS/HESP)

October 19th

Mina Hirzel (LING)

October 26th

Phoebe Gaston (LING)

November 2nd

Simon Fischer-Baum (NSF, RICE)

November 9th

Anouk Dieuleveut (LING)

November 16th

Alexandra Shelton and Jerae Kelly (CHSE/ProPELL)

November 30th

Basak Karatas (SLA)

December 7th

Lara Ehrenhofer (LING)

Spring 2017

Date

Speaker

February 23rd

Brenda Weekes (Hong Kong U)

March 2nd

Nick Huang (LING)

March 9th

Lara Ehrenhofer (LING)

March 13th

Jeffrey Green (LING)

March 30th

Amritha Mallikarjun (NACS)

April 6th

Kasia Hitczenko (LING)

April 13th

Adam Fishbein (NACS)

April 20th

Laurel Perkins (LING)

April 27th

Anton Malko (LING)

May 4th

Sudha Rao (CS)