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1. Colloquium Series
2. Language & Neurodiversity
3. Discussion Group Events
4. Search Events

Winter 2025 Schedule

January 17
Nicole Holliday, University of California, Berkeley
East Hall 4448 & Hybrid

February 21
Jack Martin, College of William and Mary
East Hall 4448 & Hybrid

March 14
Andries Coetzee, University of Michigan
East Hall 4448 & Hybrid

April 4
Amalia Arvaniti, Radboud University
Zoom

April 11
Linguistics Graduate Student Colloquia
Danuta Allen and Sophia Eakins
Rackham's East Conference Room & Hybrid

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Past Colloquia

Martin Luther King, Jr. Colloquia

2024
Quentin Williams, University of Western Cape

2023
jarrett hill, University of Southern California

2022
Anne H. Charity Hudley, Stanford University

2021
Alicia Beckford Wassink, University of Washington

2020
Joseph C. Hill, National Technical Institute for the Deaf

2019
Lal Zimman, UC-Santa Barbara

2018
Colleen M. Fitzgerald, University of Texas at Arlington

2017
Lenore A. Grenoble, University of Chicago

2016
Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town, South Africa

2015
Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State

2014
Carole Chaski, Science and Conscience in Forensic Linguistics

2013
Anne Charity Hudley, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

2012
Leanne Hinton, University of California-Berkeley

2011
Enoch Aboh, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

2010
Wesley Leonard, San Diego State University

2009
Marcyleina Morgan, Harvard University

2008
Benjamin Bailey, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2007
Norma Mendoza-Denton, University of Arizona

Graduate Student Colloquia

April 12, 2024
Aliaksei Akimenka
Jeonghwa Cho

December 1, 2023
Lucy Chiang
Demet Kayabaşı

December 9, 2022
Dominique Canning
Tzu-Yun Tung

April 15, 2022
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
Felicia Bisnath

December 10, 2021
Justin Craft
Danielle Burgess

April 9, 2021
Yourdanis Sedarous
Jian Zhu

November 20, 2020
Joy Peltier
Moira Saltzman

December 6, 2019
Jiseung Kim
Emily Sabo

April 19, 2019
Andrew McInnerney
Rachel Weissler

December 7, 2018
Alicia Stevers
Dominique Bouavichith

April 13, 2018
Kate Sherwood
Chia Wen Lo

December 8, 2017
Tamarae Hildebrandt
Ian Calloway

April 15, 2016
Hayley Heaton
Mike Opper

December 9, 2016
Jiseung Kim
Ariana Bancu

April 17, 2015
Sujeewa Hettiarachchi
Batia Snir

April 18, 2014
Stephen Tyndall
Jae-Young Shim

December 5, 2014
Yan Dong
Will Nediger

December 6, 2013
Tridha Chatterjee
Harim Kwon

December 9, 2011
David Medeiros
Joseph Tyler

2024

January 19
Quentin Williams, University of Western Cape

March 15
Jessi Grisser, University of Michigan

March 22
Rezenet Moges-Riedel, California State University

September 20
Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan

October 11
Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University

October 25
Shota Momma, University of Massachusetts

November 15 *event has been cancelled
Meredith Tamminga, University of Pennsylvania

December 6
Linguistics Graduate Student Colloquia
L R 'Nik' Nikolai and Junyuan Zhao

2023

January 13
jarrett hill, University of Southern California

February 17
Ming Xiang, University of Chicago

March 17
Cherry Meyer, University of Michigan

April 14 - Postponed Fall '23
Linguistics Graduate Student Colloquia

September 15
Steve Abney, University of Michigan

September 29
Myles Durkee, University of Michigan

November 3
Jonathan Harrington, University of Munich

November 17
Mike Putnam, Penn State University

2022

January 14 - Martin Luther King Jr. Colloquium
Anne H. Charity Hudley, Stanford University

February 18
Janet van Hell, Pennsylvania State University

March 11
Jon Brennan, University of Michigan

April 1
Annette D’Onofrio, Northwestern

April 15
Graduate Student Colloquium
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales & Felicia Bisnath

October 7
Ashwini Deo, University of Texas at Austin

November 4
T. Daniel Seely, Eastern Michigan University

November 11
Pilar Prieto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

December 9
Linguistics Graduate Student Colloquia
Dominique Canning & Tzu-Yun Tung

2021

Fall 2021

October 1
Jonathan Henner (UNC Greensboro)
4 pm (virtual)

October 22
Tracy Conner (Northwestern University)
4 pm (virtual)

November 5
Emily Bender (University of Washington)
4 pm (virtual)

December 10
Graduate student colloquium
Justin Craft and Danielle Burgess
4 pm (virtual)

Winter 2021

January 18
Martin Luther King Jr. Colloquium
Alicia Beckford Wassink, University of Washington

February 5
Iva Ivanova, The University of Texas at El Paso

March 12
Savi Namboodiripad, University of Michigan

April 9
Graduate Student Colloquia
Yourdanis Sedarous
Jian Zhu

2020

Fall 2020

September 25
Sharese King, University of Chicago

October 9
Antonella Sorace, The University of Edinburgh

October 23
Matt Wagers, University of California, Santa Cruz

November 6
Suzanne Wagner, Michigan State University

November 20
Graduate Student Colloquia:
Joy Peltier
Moira Saltzman

Winter 2020

January 17
Martin Luther King, Jr. Colloquium
Joseph C. Hill, National Technical Institute for the Deaf
4 PM, 4448 East Hall

February 6
Shravan Vasishth, University of Potsdam (virtual)
10:30 AM, 201 Lorch

February 14
Robin Queen, University of Michigan
4 PM, R1220, Ross School of Business

March 13
Sameer Dowla Khan, Reed College
4 PM, R2230 Ross School of Business

March 27
TBD
4 PM, R2230 Ross School of Business

April 24
Linguistics graduate students
4 PM, Location TBD

2019

Fall 2019

October 4
Emily Atkinson, University of Michigan
4 pm, Ross School of Business, R1240

October 18
Judith Irvine, University of Michigan
4 pm, Ross School of Business, R1230

November 22
Adele Goldberg, Princeton University
4 pm, Ross School of Business, R0220

December 6
Linguistics graduate students: Jiseung Kim and Emily Sabo
4 pm, Ross School of Business, R0320

Winter 2019

January 18
Martin Luther King, Jr. Colloquium
Lal Zimman, UC-Santa Barbara
4 p.m., 4448 East Hall

February 1
Bill Idsardi, University of Maryland
4 p.m., Classroom B1570 Ross School of Business

February 15
Natasha Abner, University of Michigan
4 p.m., Classroom B1570 Ross School of Business

March 15
Colin Phillips, University of Maryland
4 p.m., Classroom B1570 Ross School of Business

April 19
Linguistics Graduate Students: Andrew McInnerney and Rachel Weissler
4 p.m., Classroom R1220 Ross School of Business

2018

January 12
Colleen M. Fitzgerald, University of Texas at Arlington

February 2
Abbas Benmamoun, Duke University

February 16
Ezra Keshet and David Medeiros

March 16
Alexandra D'Arcy, University of Victoria

April 13
Graduate Student Colloquium
Kate Sherwood
Chia-Wen Lo

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September 21
Stephanie Shih, University of Southern California

October 19
Jon Sprouse, University of Connecticut

November 9
Daryl Baldwin, Miami University, Oxford Ohio

December 7
Graduate student colloquia:
Alicia Stevers and Dominique Bouavichith

2017

January 13, 2017
Lenore A. Grenoble

February 17, 2017
Jelena Krivokapic

March 10, 2017
Angel Gallego

March 24, 2017
Jane Stuart-Smith

April 14, 2017
Graduate student colloquium

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September 22, 2017
Jennifer Nycz, Georgetown University

October 13, 2017
Lisa Davidson, New York University

October 27, 2017
Linguistics Bicentennial Colloquium
Anne Curzan, University of Michigan

November 10, 2017
Amy Rose Deal, University of California, Berkeley

December 8, 2017
Graduate Student Colloquium
Tamarae Hildebrandt
Ian Calloway

2016

January 22, 2016
Rajend Mesthrie, University of Cape Town, South Africa

February 19, 2016
Andries Coetzee

April 8, 2016
T. Florian Jaeger, University of Rochester, NY

April 15, 2016
Graduate Student Colloquium
Hayley Heaton
Mike Opper

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October 7, 2016
Karen Emmorey

October 28, 2016
Philippe Schlenker

November 11, 2016
Kevin McGowan

December 9, 2016
Graduate Student Colloquium
Jiseung Kim
Ariana Bancu

2015

2014

January 17
Carole Chaski

January 31
Shigeru Miyagawa

February 21
Jon Brennan

March 21
Robert Henderson

April 11
Heather Brookes

April 18
Stephen Tyndall and Jae-Young Shim