Category: Announcements

Graduate Student Conference in Interdisciplinary Approach to Events

PHLING, a graduate student research group in philosophy and linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park, is hosting its first interdisciplinary research symposium, PHLINC (Philosophy & Linguistics Colloquium) on events. PHLINC hopes to bring together young researchers working on events in philosophy, linguistics and psychology. They aim to relate the discussion of events in these fields, bringing into conversation the work in ontology, logic, semantics, and perception. They will also have two invited speakers: Achille Varzi, of Columbia University, and Paul Pietroski, of the University of Maryland.

Submissions are open to graduate student researchers only, and abstracts are due January 7th, 2012. To learn more, visit the conference website.

MASC Honors Jorge Hankamer

Over the summer, the department, along with SlugPubs, the publishing arm of the graduate student population, and the LRC released a volume dedicated to Professor Jorge Hankamer. The first-ever Morphology at Santa Cruz (MASC) is subtitled Papers in Honor of Jorge Hankamer and contains a collection of papers inspired by Jorge’s Seminar in Morphology held in the fall of 2009. The volume is published entirely online with the UC’s eScholarship initiative and is therefore available online for free.

Additionally, stay tuned for announcements concerning a time and place for a celebration where printed copies of MASC will be available for viewing. Alumni who are interested in attending (and therefore scheduling) this celebration are urged to contact Matt Tucker at matucker (at) ucsc (dot) edu.

Apply to Ph.D. Program at University of Cantebury

From the University: “Applications are now being invited for the University of Canterbury Doctoral Scholarships, which are tenable in the University of Canterbury linguistics program in Christchurch, New Zealand.” Scholarships give NZ $20K/year for three years and are available to US citizens. The application deadline is October 15. To find out more about the program and funding, visit here and here and see the posting outside the department office.

Ph.D Alum John Moore Offers Summer Courses in Spain

From John:

I’m writing to tell you about an exciting study abroad program I will be leading in Spain during Summer 2012. This is a UCSD Global Seminar, where students accompany UCSD faculty for a 5-week summer program. The program is open to college students from any college in the US.

This will be the fifth year I have offered this very successful program. It includes two 4-unit, upper-division courses: one on Spanish Dialectology and one on Flamenco History and Culture. There are no prerequisites (Spanish is not required either). The program combines flamenco music and dance with Spanish dialects on location in the beautiful, historic port city of Cadiz, Spain, from June 20-August 4, 2012.

This program has attracted a diverse group of students from a variety of backgrounds and majors. At UCSD, the courses satisfy a number of General Education requirements, as well as requirements in the Linguistics, Language Studies, Latin American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Communications, History, Anthropology, Literature, and Music majors and minors. They may satisfy additional requirements as well.

The dialectology course covers technical linguistics aspects of Spanish Language history and dialectology. It also discusses the history of Spain and Latin America, from the Islamic period, through the reconquest and the colonial period. In particular, it deals with the social factors: strong versus weak social ties that lead to basic dialect similarities and differences in the Spanish-speaking world.

The flamenco course also deals with technical aspects of flamenco and the structure of its oral tradition, but also discusses the historical and social aspects of its development, including the Spanish Roma diaspora.

More information is available here.

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