Week of Sept 23

Fall Reception  

The department held its Fall Reception in the department lounge in Boylston Hall on Sept 19th! It was so nice to see so many faculties, students, staff, visitors and friends reunited or joining us at the start of the semester. Our colleagues from the boosted ASL programme were particularly welcome. Hope everyone has an enriching semester. 

Beguš back at Harvard! 

The first talk in the Harvard Linguistics Series this semester was given by our very own alum Gašper Beguš on Friday Sept 20th! The title of the talk was 'Building realistic models of language with deep learning' and it attracted students outside the Linguistics Department and even Harvard! 

At the reception on Thursday, the entire department congratulated Gašper on his recent achievement on getting a retroactive tenure as an Associate Professor at UCB with ... a cake! 

Thanks so much for your talk and huge congratulations again, Gašper! We look forward to seeing you again!

GSAS Indo-European & Historical Linguistics Workshop

The first GSAS Indo-European & Historical Linguistics Workshop talk of the Fall 2024 semester will take place this Friday. Harvard Professor of Linguistics & Department Chair Kevin Ryan will be presenting research on Friday Sept 27 @ 5 PM in Boylston 335. The talk will be followed by a small reception. Please find details below. 

Speaker: Kevin Ryan (Harvard University)

Time: Friday September 27 @ 5 PM EST

Location: Boylston 335 (Linguistics department, third floor)

Title: Greek grave: tone and intonation