Mar
13
2025
NACLO Invitational Round
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
The NU Linguistics Student Association is hosting the Invitational Round for the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad.
Past Events
Below we list past events hosted specifically by the Linguistics Department. To see the interdisciplinary past events on campus, go to the calendar.
Mar
7
2025
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Mina Lee (UChicago)
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Writing with AI: Capturing Its Influence, Designing Its Future. Professor Mina Lee of The University of Chicago will discuss the CoAuthor...
Mar
4
2025
Dr. Chaz Firestone: CogSci Speaker Series
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Cognitive Science Program
Title: Seeing "How" Abstract: What is perception? The most intuitive and influential answer to this question has long been the one given...
Feb
27
2025
NULSA Mini-Lecture Series
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Join NULSA for our Mini-Lecture Series featuring Northwestern's Linguistics faculty! Learn more about the linguistics field and how to get...
Jan
31
2025
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Mara Breen (Mount Holyoke College )
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Poetry promotes processing: The role of hierarchical metric structure in speaking, listening, and reading. In her talk, Dr. Breen will...
Jan
23
2025
North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Northwestern University will once again be a site for the open round of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad. NACLO...
Jan
21
2025
Dr. Laura Dabbish: CogSci Speaker Series
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Cognitive Science Program
Title and abstract to be announced.
Dec
6
2024
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Ethan Kutlu (University of Iowa)
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
TITLE: Exploring Network Diversity and Its Impact on Speech Perception Across Lifespan, Communities, and Models Abstract: Exposure to variability plays a...
Nov
18
2024
IPR Colloq.: R. Voigt (IPR/Linguistics) - Quantifying Racial Disparities in Media Representations of Gun Violence
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute For Policy Research
"Quantifying Racial Disparities in Media Representations of Gun Violence" By Rob Voigt, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and of Computer Science (by...
Nov
15
2024
Public Dissertation Presentation - PhD candidate Jennifer Dibbern
3:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Local social meanings and language use in a Chicago bilingual community Social context shapes bilinguals’ language use, influencing their expectations for...
Nov
1
2024
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Kevin McGowan (University of Kentucky)
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Title: The listener as the source of invariance Abstract: Every time we open our mouths to speak we reveal not only...
Sep
20
2024
Linguistics Virtual Information Session - Drop-In Zoom Hours
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Join Dr. Erin Leddon, our Director of Undergraduate Studies, for a Zoom session to ask any questions you may have...
Sep
19
2024
Academic Directions Fair for First-Year and Transfer Undergraduate Students
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Visit the Linguistics Department at the Academic Directions Fair. Meet some of our current students, our Director of Undergraduate Studies...
Sep
19
2024
Incoming Graduate Students Department Orientation
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Linguistics Department Orientation for new graduate students admitted in Fall 2024
Jun
7
2024
Linguistics Senior Send-Off
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
The Linguistics Department will host a reception to celebrate our graduating Seniors and their families and guests.
May
31
2024
QP Fest and Undergraduate Honors thesis poster presentations
1:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
The Linguistics Department will host our graduate students who will present their Qualifying Papers, as well as our undergraduate students...
May
24
2024
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Meg Cychosz
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Dr. Meg Cychosz Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles Topic: Harnessing children’s messy, naturalistic environments to understand speech development Abstract: Children learn the patterns...
May
21
2024
Advancing Gender Equity through Language Curricula
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Gender bias in educational contexts remains a pressing and pernicious issue worldwide. A United Nations global monitoring report issued in...
Apr
26
2024
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Lal Zimman
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Topic: Toward an expansive theory of vocal gender: Trans approaches to the sociophonetics of gender Abstract: The expectation that voices can be...
Apr
15
2024
Michael Rossi - "Bad Language: Rogue Linguistics and Experimental Policing in Postwar America"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Micheal Rossi, University of Chicago Title "Bad Language: Rogue Linguistics and Experimental Policing in Postwar America" Abstract L.G. Kersta was a “rogue linguist”...
Apr
12
2024
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Kathryn Franich - Coordination and its Relationship to Acoustic and Articulatory Enhancement
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department
Linguistics Colloquium Series: Kathryn Franich Affiliation: Harvard University Abstract: Stressed syllables in languages which have them tend to show two interesting properties: they...