Events

1st-year graduate students in Linguistics will present mini-talks.   Speaker: Emily Pecsok Title: Faultless Disagreement and Semantic Adaptation Abstract: Disagreements are speech acts used by interlocutors to challenge previous assertions. When disagreements express subjective views, they can often be perceived as faultless. However, it is unclear whether accepting a disagreement as faultless causes comprehenders to […]

Sharese King Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of Chicago   Racialization as meaning-making: A multidisciplinary approach to race and language in the criminal legal system   Despite progress in contiguous fields like sociology and anthropology in complicating essentialist or static views of race, linguistics has lagged in our theorizing of race and language, with our […]

We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the Zoom link, please contact Jessica Marcus: jmarcus@upenn.edu.   Donald Miller Indiana University School of Optometry   Exploring Adaptive Optics OCT Imaging for Improved Clinical Insights   Clinical optical coherence tomography (OCT) has revolutionized how clinicians monitor and assess retinal health. However, recent technological advances that […]

Ioana Carcea Laboratory for Social Behavior and Neuromodulation Rutgers University   Social behavior adaptation to changing ecosystems   Our world faces inescapable transformations that could impact human and animal behavior in ways yet poorly understood. Major ecosystem changes that emerged in recent decades include increased global ambient temperature and widespread infections. We find that both […]