Category: Events

LURC 2014

On the afternoon of Wednesday June 4th in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge, the department celebrates one of the high points of the year, with LURC 2014 (Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference 2014), which will take place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. This year’s conference features talks by Scarlett Clothier-Goldschmidt, Sean Isamu Johnson, Chelsea Miller, and Eileen O’Neill. The distinguished Alumnus address which ends the conference will be given by Lauren Winans. Lauren graduated with the BA in Linguistics in 2010 and is now in the fourth year of her doctorate at UCLA. The program for LURC 2014 is available here.

SOUND CHANGE WORKSHOP AT BERKELEY

Our colleagues at Berkeley have asked us to help spread the word about a Workshop on Sound Change to be held on the Berkeley campus on May 28th—31st. All the information you need about the event can be found on the spartan yet informative web-page here. Among the presenters at the workshop will be Grant McGuire and alumnus Andy Wedel of the University of Arizona (Grant and Andy both give presentations on Thursday May 29th). The complete program can be viewed here.

CSLI WORKSHOP ON LOGIC, RATIONALITY AND INTELLIGENT INTERACTION

CSLI (Center for the Study of Language and Information), at Stanford University, will host the Third CSLI Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Intelligent Interaction on Saturday May 31st and Sunday June 1st, 2014. The workshop draws contributions from logic, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, linguistics and economics, with an emphasis on exploring contacts among those disciplines. Among the speakers will be Adrian Brasoveanu. Detailed information along with a preliminary program is available here.

CUSP 7 AT UCLA

CUSP 7 (California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics 7) will be held at UCLA on November 7th and 8th, 2014. A call for abstracts will be circulated in mid-August and abstracts will be due in late September. The program of scheduled talks will be posted in early October. The CUSP 7 web-site has much additional information.

The conference organizers are Jessica Rett of UCLA and UCSC alumna Lauren Winans, who is now a fourth year doctoral student in linguistics at UCLA.

SCLP EVENTS

Besides the colloquium featured in our last issue and also featured here, the SCLP group is sponsoring two additional events in the coming week.

On Wednesday, April 30, at 11am, in Engineering Two, Room 599, Professor Jouko Väänänen, of the University of Helsinki, will give a talk on (in)dependence logic (of which he is the principal creator). An abstract is available here. Refreshments will be available in E2-559 at 10:45am. This event is co-sponsored by the UCSC Computer Science Department.

Later that same day, Professor Michela Ippolito, from the University of Toronto, will lead a discussion of recent work on conditionals. This event will take place in the Linguistics Common Room at 4:30pm. Michela will also hold office hours on Friday May 2nd from 11am to 12pm, and from 1:30pm to 3:30pm. A sign-up sheet will be posted shortly on the door of the Linguistics Visitor’s Office.

SCLP is the (Santa Cruz Linguistics and Philosophy Group), an interdisciplinary research and reading group involving students and faculty from linguistics and philosophy, whose work focuses on issues in formal semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic. Funding for the group’s activities comes from the Institute for Humanities Research at UCSC.

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