Weekly Digest, 9/2/2024

Welcome to the second full week of Fall term, everyone! Hopefully your first week went well, and the initial whirlwind is starting to settle into a new routine. The new week brings new announcements; see below.

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Congratulations 👏

A warm congratulations to Silvia Kim, who successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Interpretation of pronominal forms across languages” on August 15, 2024. Above she is pictured celebrating with members of her committee Elsi Kaiser (top right), Toby Mintz (bottom left), and Andrew Simpson (top left).

Look Who’s Talking 🗣

• Elsi Kaiser gave an invited talk at the “Second Osnabrück–Irvine Workshop on the Role of Loopholes in Polite Communication”, at UC Irvine Aug 7-8, 2024. Link to schedule.

Other good news 🎉

The first social event of the 2024-25 academic year — pizza at Emmy Squared Pizza in Santa Monica — was a delicious success!

Upcoming Events

Department Events

• Monday, September 9 at 1pm @ PhonLunch: Organizational meeting

• Tuesday, September 3 at 9:30am @ Psycholing Lab: Organizational meeting

• Wednesday, September 4 at 2pm @ S-Side Story: Deniz Rudin on creating professional websites

• Wednesday, September 4 at 4:30pm @ MeaningLab:  linguistics x philosophy x psychology reading group

USiL Events

Please check out https://www.usilusc.org/ for the latest on Undergraduate Students in Linguistics (USiL) events this semester.