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09/07/2026

Thursday, KU Linguistics hosts its annual Oread Lecture, inviting a distinguished scholar of the graduate students' choosing to come present. This year's speaker is Dr. Dan Parker, from The Ohio State University. His talk asks what we can learn about sentence processing from LLMs.

The Oread Lecture is open to the public and will take place Thursday Sept 10 at 4pm, in Stauffer-Flint 100, followed by some light refreshments.

08/25/2026

Congrats to our three PhD graduates from Spring 2026! Each one is starting a postdoc this fall.

Dr. Xuan Wang will be at Northwestern University
Dr. Tzu-Hsuan Yang will join Agder University in Norway
Dr. Münir Özturhan joins the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

08/21/2026

KU Linguistics hosted its first-ever in-town pop-up event earlier this summer: Language Exploration at the Library. This event featured seven exhibits showcasing just how much language happens around us right here in Lawrence, KS.

We couldn't have done it without the Sociolinguistics Lab and the Developmental Psychology Lab. Thanks to them, and to our hosts at the Lawrence Public Library.

More than that, our event got a write-up at LingComm, a blog run by Dr Gretchen McCulloch about communicating linguistics to the wider world.

https://lingcomm.org/2026/08/21/lingcomm-irl-at-the-lawrence-kansas-library-interview-with-lacey-wade-and-teammates/

05/05/2026

This week, KU linguistics hosts its semestrial Undergraduate Research Symposium. Major students from our capstone courses present their original research projects with academic posters. Also, linguistics honors students will present their honors thesis research with talks, and we will present awards to undergraduate and graduate students for excellence in class, teaching, and service.

Our symposium will take place Thursday May 7 starting at 4 pm, in Blake 211 with honors presentations and awards. We plan for the capstone poster session and reception to begin at 5:15 in Blake 207.

04/24/2026

Check it out tomorrow! Come on over to the Lawrence Public Library this weekend to explore language courtesy of the KU Sociolinguistics Lab! We are hosting an interactive drop-in event where folks of all ages can explore the science of language.

It's Saturday the 25th, from 11am-2pm in the atrium, right as you enter.

04/17/2026

WARNING! The Ingemann Lecture post had the erroneous time of 4 pm, but the talk is at 3 pm! The location has not changed; it is still in the forum in Marvin Hall.

Our apologies for anyone's planning.

Join us this afternoon for the annual Ingemann Lecture! In honor of our department's founder, Dr. Frances Ingemann, we host a distinguished scholar at the forefront of their area, to give our community a chance to hear that scholar's research and meet with them about their own research. This year we have the pleasure to invite Dr. Melissa Baese-Berk of the University of Chicago, whose talk will be Factors Influencing Non-native Perception and Learning. The Ingemann Lecture will take place at the fabulous Forum in Marvin Hall, Friday April 17 at 3 pm.

04/10/2026

Come one, come all, to the Lawrence Public Library next weekend to explore language courtesy of the KU Sociolinguistics Lab! We are hosting an interactive drop-in event where folks of all ages can explore the science of language.

It's Saturday the 25th, from 11am-2pm in the atrium, right as you enter.

04/09/2026

Join us next Friday for the annual Ingemann Lecture! In honor of our department's founder, Dr. Frances Ingemann, we host a distinguished scholar at the forefront of their area, to give our community a chance to hear that scholar's research and meet with them about their own research. This year we have the pleasure to invite Dr. Melissa Baese-Berk of the University of Chicago, whose talk will be Factors Influencing Non-native Perception and Learning. The Ingemann Lecture will take place at the fabulous Forum in Marvin Hall, Friday April 17 at 3 pm.

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