# Week of January 23 January 23, 2023 Welcome back to the first day of the spring semester! ## Rothstein-Dowden Defense Zachary Rothstein-Dowden successfully defended his dissertation titled [Dental-aspirate presents in Greek and Indo-European](/file_url/853) last month. Congratulations Zach! ## TU+ at Harvard Linguistics Tu+ is an annual workshop focusing on all aspects of linguistic research on Turkic languages, languages in contact with Turkic, and those spoken in geographic regions where Turkic languages are. We are happy to announce that the 8th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic, TU+ 8, will be hosted by [the Harvard Department of Linguistics](/). The workshop will take place on **March 4-5, 2023**. To revive the in-person workshop tradition, we plan to host the workshop in a hybrid mode. Conference Website- Organisers- Hande Sevgi, Daria Bikina The workshop will be funded by the Provostial Fund for Arts and Humanities which was awarded to Kathryn Davidson. This fund is intended to support creative, innovative initiatives in the Art and Humanities projects led by ladder and non-ladder faculty within the Faculty of Art and Sciences and/or other schools. ## Morphology Reading Group Starting this semester, the Morphology Reading Group will take place on Mondays 3-4PM in Boylston 303. The first meeting is **January 23.** ## Visitors at Harvard Linguistics Two of our visiting scholars, Xin Cui and Zeqi Zhao returned home last December. We are happy to announce that Visiting Scholar Shunhua Fu, an Associate Professor at Xiantan University, joins us now for a year. Welcome, Shunhua! Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)