WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ

Representatives from UC’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) will be on campus this Thursday, November 29, to meet with faculty and graduate students to discuss funding opportunities for 2008-9. The meeting, which will be from 12.00 to 1.00 p.m. in the Namaste Student Lounge, is co-hosted by UCSC’s Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies (CGIRS). IGCC funds graduate student research, including summer internships and 20-25 dissertation fellowships per year, as well as faculty research projects. The Institute’s research focus, on international policy and regional relations, is broad enough to include some types of linguistics and language-related projects. Check out their funding opportunities here.

The Third Workshop on the Acquisition of Romance Languages will take place September 18-20, 2008, at the Centre for Applied Language Research at the University of Southampton, UK. The workshop aims to bring together generative linguists working on the acquisition of Romance languages. The abstract deadline is April 1, 2008. For further information, go here.

The Syntax Circle planned for Tuesday, November 20 has been postponed. Jorge Hankamer will give his presentation instead in about two weeks on December 4th.

The next Syntax Circle will be on November 29th and will feature Justin Nuger.

Alum Louise McNally (UCSC Ph.D., 1992) is one of the invited speakers at the 16th Amsterdam Colloquium, to be held December 17-19 at the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. The other invited speakers in the general session are David Beaver, Patrick Blackburn, James Pustejovsky, and Anna Szabolcsi; the invited speakers in the Colloquium’s Workshop on Uninterpretability are Pauline Jacobson and Angelika Kratzer.

Jim McCloskey is in Dublin, Ireland, where he attended the Tionól, the annual colloquium of the School of Celtic Studies of the Institute of Advanced Study. You can view the program of the colloquium in Irish or in English.

Sandy Chung has returned from a week-long administrative visit to Sydney, Australia. While there, she gave the same informational talk nine times to different faculties of the University of New South Wales. During the weekend, she walked the eastern beaches from Coogee to Bondi, viewed the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition along the way, visited the Sydney Harbor, and participated in the Walk Against Warming (“One Planet. One Climate. Last Chance.”). For some photos, go here.

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its first International Conference on Literature, Languages, and Linguistics from July 28 to July 31, 2008. The aim of the Conference is to bring together scholars and students of languages, literatures, and linguistics. There will be sessions on linguistics, sociolinguistics, and theoretical linguistics. The deadline for abstracts is December 20, 2007. For more information about the conference and the Institute, go here.