Overview

Dear linguists, Here’s wishing you a delightful spring break, wherever you’re going (or staying)! For your reading pleasure, here’s an overview of upcoming events: March 26-27: The Trace Foundation: “Minority Languages in Today’s Global Society: Perspectives on Language Standardization.” The lecture will focus on Tibetan, Kurdish, and Hungarian. March 26: Professor Julia Hirschberg, Computer Science [...]

Michael Dreyfuss on Occitan

This Friday  (2/5) at 4pm in 709 Hamilton, we will have a presentation from Columbia alumnus, CLS founding member, and Fulbright scholar Michael Dreyfuss. He did research this past year in France on the Occitan language. “The Occitan language and its revival through bilingual primary school education” Michael Dreyfuss Friday Feb. 5 at 4pm in [...]

New Russian conversation class

For those of you who would like practice speaking po-Russki, a new Russian conversation class/circle is starting up, led by a new teacher named Olga Dobrunoff. It’ll meet three Fridays a month starting this Friday (tomorrow) in room 709 Hamilton at 2:30pm. You don’t have to register, just come when you can to chat!

12/11: “A Preview of a Book-in-preparation: The Birth and Death of European Languages of Literacy”

The Institute for Social and Economic Research & Policy (ISERP) is holding a workshop on Thursday, December 11th. Harrison White and Corinne Kirchner, co-organizers of the institute’s Workshops on Meaning series, are pleased to present a talk by Joshua Fishman, Ph.D, Distinguished University Research Professor Emeritus (Yeshiva University) and Visiting Professor of  Education and Linguistics [...]