Weekly Digest 11/28

To protest the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, graduate students at USC have organized a national walkout/rally called the #GradTaxWalkout: Wednesday November 29th at 10am at the Tommy Trojan Statue.

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This Wednesday, 11/29 in the Conference Room: from 9:30am to 12pm, CAMPATHON! Monica Do, Jesse Storbeck, Binh Ngo and Ana Besserman will give practice talks in anticipation to the 1st CAlifornia Meeting in Psycholinguistics (CAMP) this weekend at UCLA – everyone is welcome! Then, at 12pm: Psycholinguistics Lab Meeting! Alexis Wellwood will present “Individuating and comparing objects and events“. 

Thursday 11/30 at 12:30pm in the Conference Room: PhonLunch! Merouane Behassine will present “A dynamical field account of the perceptual magnet effect.”

On Thursday evening, Syntax+ will be getting together for Ian Roberts’ last evening in LA! Please contact Thomas for more details.

And don’t forget to RSVP for our End-of-the-year Holiday Party this Friday!!!

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Here is our 2nd year cohort celebrating the end of their first semester TAing and displaying their ling mugs! A wonderful tradition – thank you, Rachel!