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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.

May
9
2025

PhD Colloquium Talk- Daniel Turner

3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department

Linguistics PhD candidate Daniel Turner will present their Colloquium Talk, and a reception will immediately follow. The title of the...

May
2
2025

PhD Colloquium Talk - Chantal De Leon

3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department

Linguistics PhD candidate Chantal De Leon will present their Colloquium Talk, and a reception will immediately follow. The title of...

Apr
25
2025

PhD Colloquium Talk- Thomas Sostarics

3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department

Linguistics PhD candidate Thomas Sostarics will present their Colloquium Talk, and a reception will immediately follow. The title of the...

Apr
8
2025

Dr. Tina Tallon: CogSci Speaker Series

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Cognitive Science Program

Title : Machine Learning, Music, and Medicine Abstract: Recent developments in machine learning allow for high-resolution and data-driven multimodal approaches to...

Apr
4
2025

PhD Colloquium Talk- Shawn Foster

3:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department

Linguistics PhD candidate Shawn Foster will present their Colloquium Talk to the Department and other interested parties. The title of...

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.

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
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...

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
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...