Category Archives: Events

Calling attention to just two of the wonderful events taking place at the Linguistics Society of America meeting!!  For more information, check out the LSA Facebook page and Twitter feed, the Annual Meeting page, the online schedule and .pdf of the Annual Meeting Handbook. Friday January 4, 3:30-5 pm in Liberty 3 “Linguists in the […]

One of my intentions for 2019 is to apply story finding to shine a light on the often invisible work done by women, in this case the origins of improvisational theater. I wrote this post to call attention to the foundational work done by Viola Spolin as a way to announce my latest workshop, but […]

  For the 6th consecutive year, there will be a number of events at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting (being held in New York City from Jan 3- 7, 2019) focusing on careers (including a panel, a Mixer, mentoring office hours and more), hosted by the Linguistics Beyond Academia Special Interest Group (LBA […]

Congratulations to yesterday’s BLx2W raffle winner from the American Anthropological Association’s Careers Expo! Nancy, I will be in touch today to give you  information about how to access your copy  of Bringing Linguistics to Work. Thanks everyone for participating in all of the wonderful conversations about career yesterday – keep ’em up!! Yesterday’s event reminded […]

Headed to the AAA meetings in San Jose next week? Career Linguist Laurel Sutton and I are going to be woman-ing a booth focused on the topic “Linguistics Beyond Academia” at the 13th annual careers expo as part of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meetings. https://lnkd.in/gJVpjFd. Stop by anytime between 11am and 4pm. I […]

Linguistic Society of America Linguistics Beyond Academia Special Interest Group Meet Up in Boulder, CO September 19, 2018 Guest Post by Olivia Hirschey: I had the pleasure of hosting the Linguistic Society of America’s Linguistics Beyond Academia Special Interest Group meet-up in Boulder this September. Events like these are a productive way to form connections […]

https://www.linguisticsociety.org/news/2018/09/06/webinar-linguists-working-tech-mark-your-calendars-september-26 Mark your calendars for a LSA careers webinar: “Working in Tech — It’s Not Just for Computational Linguists!” Wednesday, September 26 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM U.S. EDT. In this webinar, we will hear from linguists working in tech who found nontraditional, unexpected paths into the sector, and who continue to find new and […]

On behalf of the Linguistics Beyond Academia Special Interest Group for Linguistics Beyond Academia, I am thrilled to announce a networking meet-up in Boulder, CO Wednesday, Sept 19th at 6:30 pm at the Med. The Med 1002 Walnut Street Boulder CO 80302 themedboulder.com (there will be a sign on the table to help you find […]

The Women in Tech-Retention (WIT-R) project – a partnership between The University of Maryland and research firm InContext –  is seeking to learn how colleges can prepare women and men for success early in their technology careers. They are looking for research participants who are women and men within the first 18 months of their first […]

The Department of Modern Languages & Global Studies at South Dakota State University is hosting an, “International Conference on Global Human Rights” on October 4-6. In order to complete a few panels, we would like to extend a further invitation for abstract submissions in linguistics and adjacent fields.   The conference itself is very interdisciplinary and for these […]