# Week of September 14 September 14, 2026 ### Fall Reception Reminder that our Fall Reception will be held on **Tuesday, September 15** from **4:00-6:00pm** in the Boylston 3rd floor lounge. Come mix and mingle with our faculty, graduate students, undergraduate concentrators, and potential future concentrators - there will be food from Five Spices! ### Bees, Whales, and LLMs As part of a project for LING 10, Avani Shah-Lipman ('29) interviewed linguist Gašper Beguš (UC Berkeley), an alum of the department who researches animal and non-human language. The interview was recorded as a podcast, which aired on WHRB 95.3 FM this past Sunday, September 13 just after 12pm. If you missed it, you can listen for the next two weeks at . ### Talk Radar: Upcoming Lectures - **"Constraints on the emergence and interpretability of linguistic conventions" with Veronica Boyce (MIT)** - Tuesday 9/15, 5:30-7:00pm in William James Hall, room 1305 (LangCog) - **"*****Uvamam*****: Classical Tamil Theory of Likeness in Making Meaning" with E. Annamalai (UChicago)** - Thursday 9/24, 6:00-8:00pm in Barker Center, Thompson Room (Department of South Asian Studies) - **Linguistics Colloquium with Ryan Bochnak (UBC)** - Friday 9/25, 12:00-1:30pm, further details forthcoming Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)