Erik Hans Maier (Linguistics PhD '22) has started a new staff position here at Berkeley as the Undergraduate Research and Curricular Program Analyst for the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarships in the College of Letters & Science Undergraduate Division. In this position he'll be providing analytic and administrative support for several of OURS' programs, including URAP and SURF. Congrats, Erik!
Gi-ga-miinigoowiz Mamaandaawiziwin (May the Force be With You): A Star Wars Journey Towards Indigenous Language Revitalization
Tuesday, November 19 - 223 Philosophy Hall - 12-1:30pm
Amber Galvano received the COZIL travel grant to support their participation in the LSA 2025 meeting. Congrats!
Zachary O'Hagan is in Palm Springs this week representing the California Language Archive as part of the annual conference of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM). He is participating in a flash talk, "Introduction to the Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network," alongside representatives from the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) and the Native American Languages Collections of the Sam Noble Museum.
UC Berkeley alumnus Charles Chang (PhD 2010) will be joining the City University of Hong Kong (CityU) as Professor of Linguistics, starting September 2025. Congrats, Charles!
Mairi McLaughlin is co-organizing a book launch on Wednesday, November 6th online from 9-11am Pacific to celebrate the publication of the volume Historical and Sociolinguistic Approaches to French, which she edited with Janice Carruthers and Olivia Walsh. The volume is intended to celebrate the career and many contributions of Wendy Ayres-Bennett so the book launch will include a response to the book by Wendy and some remarks about her career. All are welcome to attend! Click here to find out more and to register.
There will be six talks by Berkeley linguists at NWAV 52 in Miami, November 7-9, 2024:
Congrats, all!