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The SUMSC meeting will be postponed until Wednesday, November 18th at 1 pm in their usual Zoom room (979 2662 4935, pw: monads). They will discuss Barker 2002: Continuations and the nature of quantification.

PHLUNCH & WLMA will have a joint meeting on Thursday, November 12 at 1:00 PM. Myke Brinkerhoff, Jack Duff, and Maya Wax Cavallaro will present their ongoing work on tone in Santiago Laxopa Zapotec. The usual meeting link is here. (230 326 093, pw: 655218). A full schedule of Phlunch can be found here and A full schedule of WLMA  here.

The Humanities Institute is hiring two undergraduate students to work with Senderos and Nido de Lenguas for the 2020-21 academic year. They are looking particularly for a Program Coordinator and a Language Education Developer. The deadline for application is November 12, 2020.

Senderos is a non-profit organization that teaches and celebrates Latino cultures through music, dance, and language, and that provides free educational resources for K-12 students and adults in Santa Cruz. Nido de Lenguas is a collaboration between Senderos and the UCSC Department of Linguistics whose mission is to share and celebrate the indigenous languages of Oaxaca.

The full details can be found here. Please contact Kelsey Sasaki at kmsasaki@ucsc.edu if you have any questions.

The first meeting on Linguistics and Racial/Social justice will take place this Friday at 3:30 pm, November 6th. Together they will read and discuss Hudley et al: Towards Racial Justice in Linguistics.

They are also inviting commentary of any form in advance.  Sign up for commentary will close this Tuesday, November 3rd.

If you are interested or have further questions, please be in touch with Amanda Rysling or Ivy Sichel.

MRG read Chapter 5 in Bobaljik 2012 for the meeting this week (3 pm, Monday, 11/02). For the meeting next week on November 9th (Monday), they will read Smith et al. 2019: Case and number suppletion in pronouns at 3 pm at this Zoom link.

More information about MRG can be found on their official website. Supplementary information can be found here.

There will be no presentations or readings for WLMA. But feel free to drop by the WLMA Zoom room during their regular time slot (12:00 pm on Tuesday, 11/3) for a de-stressing social lunch with fellow fieldworkers!

A full schedule of MLMA can be found here.

S-lab will have some fun playing “Iron Psycholinguist” this Tuesday, November 3rd  at 10 am in this Zoom link.

Iron psycholinguist is a game where some sample experimental items, figures, or methods from published papers are presented and players infer the research questions these experiments had intended to investigate.

A full schedule of S/LAB can be found here. To see what they’ve done in the past, visit this website.