Autumn 2026 Schedule

Sept 4
Presenter: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
Topic: Teaching students to have difficult outreach conversations: The LING2605/LING5700 project

Sept 11
Presenter: Kathryn Campbell-Kibler
Topic: Multi-Modal Accommodation project

Sept 18
Presenter: Angélica Aviles Bosques
Topic: Workshopping stimuli for perceptions of Miss Universe Puerto Rico contestants

Sept 25 Topic: TBD

Oct 2
Presenter: Lizzy Feng
Topic: I just want to be a suave grownup businessman who is also sexy and a smol bean. Why are people mocking me on the internet? The Zhang Wei Yi story

Oct 9
Presenter: Kyler Laycock
Alyssa Allen
Topic: Exactly how bad can the dubbing be before you stop moving your phoneme boundaries?
Interspeech dry run: Bilingual Speaker Phonetic Alignment to Voice Assistants

Oct 16
NO MEETING, AUTUMN BREAK

Oct 23

Presenter:
Penelope Ross
Topic: You people think you know what it means to pay attention to something, but you don't. Nobody does.

Oct 30
Presenter: Camila Bracamonte
Topic: Your accent must be this tall to join this soccer club. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

Nov 6
Presenter: Sahil Patel
Topic: Talking about conversations!

Nov 13
Presenter: Angélica Aviles Bosques
Topic: AAA dry run: Race, language and authenticity in discourse about Miss Universe Puerto Rico

Nov 20
Presenter: Lizzy Feng
Topic: QP1 dry run: Can you please stop making that buzzing sound with your glottis? It's not as attractive as you think it is

Oct 16
NO MEETING, THANKSGIVING BREAK

Dec 4
Presenter: Katie Conner
Topic: Dissertation workshopping: Bitch and cunt