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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.

Sep
18
2025

PhD Colloquium Talk - Devin Johnson

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department

Linguistics PhD candidate Devin Johnson will present his Colloquium Talk via zoom. The zoom call will be set up in...

Sep
11
2025

WCAS Academic Directions Fair - Linguistics

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department

Welcome Class of 2029! Join us at the Fair. Meet with Linguistics faculty, and learn more about our courses and...

Jun
6
2025

Linguistics QP Fest 2025

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

Presentation of qualifying paper research by graduate students.

Jun
4
2025

PhD Colloquium Talk- Zuheyra Tokaç

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Linguistics Department

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

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...