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MLK Colloquium

Friday, January 17 | 4-5:30 pm | 4448 East Hall

As part of the university's Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium, the Linguistics Department will host Dr. Joseph Hill, Assistant Professor in the Department of American Sign Language and Interpreting Education at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. NTID is part of Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. The title of Dr. Hill's presentation is "Black, Deaf, and Disabled: Navigating the Institutional, Ideological, and Linguistic Barriers with Intersectional Identities in the United States." ASL-English interpreting and CART captioning provided. Read the abstract.

Graduate Student News

Graduate Student Colloquia


Doctoral students Jiseung Kim and Emily Sabo were the featured speakers for the final departmental colloquium event of the semester, held on Friday, December 6.

Jiseung Kim presented "Individual differences in the production and perception of prosodic boundaries in American English."


Emily Sabo presented "Does speaker accent influence bilingual word processing?"

Read the abstracts.

 

Integrating Research and Public Engagement


PhD student Kelly Wright reflects on her experience participating in the Mellon Public Engagement and the Humanities Workshop

Linguistics PhD student Kelly Wright was one of six U-M graduate students and six faculty members who comprised the inaugural cohort of participants in the Mellon Public Engagement and the Humanities Workshop in 2019.  The group spent eight weeks during the summer learning tools for public communication, visiting public humanities sites in Michigan, and exploring why collaboration and public engagement matters to the humanities. Read the full article.  

Read about the Rackham MPEH program and view the 2020 cohort application.
 

Capstone Poster Session

Undergraduate students in this term's two capstone classes, Professor Pam Beddor's Speech Perception seminar and Professor Sally Thomason's Montana Salish seminar, showcased their research at the biennial Capstone Poster Session, held in Lorch Hall on December 9th. 

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Upcoming Events


Friday, Dec. 13
Grad Committee
473 Lorch; 10-11:30 a.m.

Dissertation Defense
Kate Sherwood
473 Lorch; 12 p.m.


Friday, Dec. 20
Faculty Meeting
403 Lorch 
10:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 10
HistLing Discussion Group
403 Lorch; 2-3 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 10
SoConDi Discussion Group
473 Lorch; 3-4 p.m.

Friday, Jan. 17
Linguistics MLK Colloquium
Joseph Hill, NTID, RIT
4448 East Hall; 4-5:30 p.m.

 

Holiday Hours


The Linguistics main office will be closed from Monday, December 23 through Wednesday, January 2, 2020. The office will reopen on Thursday, January 2, at 8 a.m.

Graduate Student Profile: Moira Saltzman

Research fieldwork in South Korea and Japan will help develop a clearer picture of the history of the Koreanic languages

As an undergraduate student studying philosophy of language, Moira Saltzman supplemented her academic studies by teaching English in South Korea. Over the course of five years, Moira eventually discovered what she really wanted to do: help revitalize minority languages. Read more

 


Thank you to all of the generous donors who supported Linguistics on Giving Blueday, December 3rd. More than $1,200 was raised for the Linguistics strategic fund to help support undergraduate and graduate student research. 

Overall, donors made 15,887 gifts to the University of Michigan on the sixth annual Giving Blueday, giving a total of $4,242,531. The number of gifts this year increased by nearly 26 percent.

Read the full article in the University Record.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion


As the largest college in the university, LSA celebrates its role in Michigan's deeply rooted commitment to diversity.
 

Panel Discussion | Wednesday, December 11 | 4:00–5:30 PM 
Rackham Graduate School — Amphitheatre



Please join us for a panel discussion on Leveraging Diversity as contributors to the Our Compelling Interests book series and initiative share their perspectives on what we gain from diversity. The panel will explore the diversity narratives as well as how we leverage diversity to create new forms of a healthy civic nation. Joining the moderator, U-M professor Angela Dillard, will be contributors to the first three volumes in the book series and the co-authors of the highly anticipated fourth publication.

Immediately following the book event, we invite you to a reception in the East Conference Room (4th Floor) from 5:30–6:30 p.m., where you will have an opportunity to speak to the panelists.

See additional event details.

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