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Institute Poster Session 1 Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - 5:15pm to 6:15pm Poster Session

Institute-wide poster session for presenting your recent or ongoing work to other Institute participants. Sign up to present a poster by finding the link on your account page in the registration system. The link will appear when your account is marked paid in full. Please sign up by June 15.

Hale Lecture by Anthony Woodbury & Reception Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - 6:00pm to 10:00pm Lectures and Receptions

The ‘genius' of the language: discovering pervasive plan and unique design in linguistic description

Lecture by Anthony Woodbury, Hale Professor, at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes, at 6pm. Reception to follow at 7:30pm at the Cloister Club, also in Ida Noyes.

Video of the lecture can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOdZLHWlxWU

Guiding Your Class to Edit Wikipedia Monday, July 6, 2015 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm Workshop/Conference

Stop your students from citing Wikipedia -- have them add to it instead!

Guest Lecture by Peter Sokoloski, Editor-at-Large, Merriam-Webster Thursday, July 23, 2015 - 9:15am to 10:15am Lectures and Receptions

The Dictionary as Data: What the Online Dictionary Tells Us About English

Peter Sokolowski, Editor-at-Large, Merriam-Webster
https://twitter.com/PeterSokolowski

Time: July 23, 9:20-10:20, Harper 140

Forum Lecture by Maria Polinsky & Reception Friday, July 31, 2015 - 6:00pm to 10:00pm Lectures and Receptions

Look before you leap

Forum Lecture by Maria Polinsky, at the Charles M. Harper Center, room 104, at 6pm. Reception to follow at 7:30pm at the Smart Museum, on 5550 S. Greenwood Ave..

Forum Lecture by Andrew Garrett & Reception Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - 6:30pm to 10:00pm Lectures and Receptions

Ancestry relationships in linguistic phylogenetics

Forum Lecture by Andrew Garrett, at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes, at 6:30pm. Reception to follow at 8:00pm at the Cloister Club, also in Ida Noyes.

Fillmore Lecture by Dan Jurafsky & Reception Friday, July 17, 2015 - 6:00pm to 10:00pm Lectures and Receptions

Extracting social meaning from language: The computational linguistics of food, innovation, and community

Lecture by Dan Jurafsky, Fillmore Professor, at the Charles M. Harper Center, room 104, at 6pm. Reception to follow at 7:30pm at the Cloister Club, in Ida Noyes Hall.

Fieldworker Weekly Social Thursday, July 9, 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm Workshop/Conference

EACH THURSDAY 5-7PM

Weekly gathering for all fieldworkers (and those who wish to be)!

Come join us in Rosenwald for drinks and casual conversation about linguistic fieldwork. All are welcome!

Fieldworker Weekly Social Thursday, July 16, 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm Workshop/Conference

EACH THURSDAY 5-7PM

Weekly gathering for all fieldworkers (and those who wish to be)!

Come join us in Classics 110 for drinks and casual conversation about linguistic fieldwork. All are welcome! Due to the overwhelming response to the first Fieldworker Social, we have moved it to a larger location.

Fieldworker Weekly Social Thursday, July 23, 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm Workshop/Conference

EACH THURSDAY 5-7PM

Weekly gathering for all fieldworkers (and those who wish to be)!

Come join us in Classics 110 for drinks and casual conversation about linguistic fieldwork. All are welcome! Due to the overwhelming response to the first Fieldworker Social, we have moved it to a larger location.

Fieldworker Weekly Social Thursday, July 30, 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm Workshop/Conference

EACH THURSDAY 5-7PM

Weekly gathering for all fieldworkers (and those who wish to be)!

Come join us in Classics 110 for drinks and casual conversation about linguistic fieldwork. All are welcome! Due to the overwhelming response to the first Fieldworker Social, we have moved it to a larger location.

Experimental Pragmatics 2015 Thursday, July 16, 2015 to Saturday, July 18, 2015 Workshop/Conference

Experimental Pragmatics 2015 will be held from July 16 to July 18, 2015, at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago. The conference is jointly hosted by Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. The invited speakers are:

David Beaver (University of Texas)
Noah Goodman (Stanford University)
Yi Ting Huang (University of Maryland)
Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh)
Michael Tanenhaus (University of Rochester)

Engaged Scholarship in Linguistics: Partnering with Educators to Communicate about Language Variation Saturday, July 18, 2015 to Sunday, July 19, 2015 Workshop/Conference

This workshop is free and you do not have to be registered for the Institute to attend. To register for the Engaged Scholarship workshop, please indicate that you are "going" via our Facebook events page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1551643188419686/

Development of Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences Saturday, July 25, 2015 to Sunday, July 26, 2015 Workshop/Conference
COSWL/COSIAC professionalization workshop 3 Wednesday, July 29, 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm Workshop/Conference

Part 1: Web Presence (Colin Phillips)
Part 2: CV Design (Beth Levin)

If you’re interested in attending any (or all!) of the three COSWL/COSIAC workshops (The Publishing Process, The Imposter Syndrome, and Web Presence/CV Design) during the Institute please sign up via the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8R2TXHF. Thank you!

COSWL/COSIAC professionalization workshop 2 Thursday, July 23, 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm Workshop/Conference

The Imposter Syndrome (Penny Eckert & Monica Macaulay)

If you’re interested in attending any (or all!) of the three COSWL/COSIAC workshops (The Publishing Process, The Imposter Syndrome, and Web Presence/CV Design) during the Institute please sign up via the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8R2TXHF. Thank you!

COSWL/COSIAC professionalization workshop 1 Thursday, July 9, 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm Workshop/Conference

The Publishing Process (Keren Rice)

If you’re interested in attending any (or all!) of the three COSWL/COSIAC workshops (The Publishing Process, The Imposter Syndrome, and Web Presence/CV Design) during the Institute please sign up via the following link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8R2TXHF. Thank you!

Computational Phonology and Morphology Workshop Saturday, July 11, 2015 Workshop/Conference

Workshop on Computational Phonology and Morphology
Saturday, July 11, 2015
At the Linguistic Summer Institute at the University of Chicago

DESCRIPTION

Competition Workshop Sunday, July 12, 2015 - 10:00am to 4:15pm Workshop/Conference

The speakers and discussants in this workshop will explore the role of competition as a mainstay in the organization of linguistic systems.

A schedule and pre-registration are available at the following webpage: http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~ebakovic/competition/.

Collitz Lecture by Johanna Nichols & Reception Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 6:30pm to 10:00pm Lectures and Receptions

Canonical head marking and the evolution of polysynthesis

Lecture by Johanna Nichols, Collitz Professor, at the Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes, at 6:30pm. Reception to follow at 8:00pm at the Cloister Club, also in Ida Noyes.

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