Archive: Announcements
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Prof. Deborah Tannen receives “Language” award
Prof. Deborah Tannen received the first-ever “Language” award presented by Planet Word DC, the immersive museum devoted to innovative, voice-first tech exhibits celebrating the diversity of words and
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Call for applicants: GU STARTALK 2023
GU STARTALK: Task-based Training for Critical Language Teachers, funded by a grant from the NSA, will train 25 K-16 teachers of critical languages (Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian and Russian) in th
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PhD student collaborates on Nanticoke textbook
PhD student Keith Cunningham collaborated with Nanticoke tribal member and Rutgers Anthropology PhD student Karelle Hall to create a textbook to teach the Nanticoke language for young learners. Nanti
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Prof. Deborah Tannen elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Faculty member Deborah Tannen was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the area of Humanities and Arts. Read her bio on the Academy's website.
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Prof. Natalie Schilling elected as a Linguistic Society of America Fellow
Faculty member Natalie Schilling is one of 7 linguists elected to the 2022 class of Linguistic Society of America Fellows. The 2022 LSA Fellows were chosen through a nomination process for their sust
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Call for papers: GURT 2022 Dialect Contact
Call for papers open for GURT 2022, March 10-13, online. Abstracts due Dec. 1 via Oxford Abstracts. Reach out with questions by email and Twitter! Dialect contact occurs whenever speakers of mutua
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GURT 2021 virtual conference!
The Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics conference (GURT) will take place virtually this Thursday, March 4th and Friday, March 5th, 2021. The theme is: Online language lear
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Ph.D. candidate Minnie Quartey featured in WUSA9 article
Ph.D. student Minnie Quartey was recently quoted in a WUSA9 article on ‘The power of spoken word during social movements’. The article also features Minnie’s reading of a piece she authored titled ‘A
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Assistant Professor Nicholas Subtirelu addresses the question ‘Can Quantitative Research Contribute to Struggles for Social Justice?
Linguistics Professor Nic Subtirelu recently presented a lecture titled ‘Can quantitative research contribute to struggles for social justice?’ for the Georgetown Initiative for Multilingual Studies.
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Initiative for Multilingual Studies
For more on this intiative, click here.
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