Dear all,

you’ve experienced a mock conference, you’ve seen our post on the NLK, and now you’re about to read about another wondrous event in the linguistic world: Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft aka StuTS!

It’s a conference organised by students for students (mainly BA & MA, but PhD-friendly as well). It takes place every semester at a different university.  And it’s a great opportunity for you to get to learn what linguistic projects are students like you working on at the moment. Moreover, if you’re particularly proud of your term paper, your thesis or another of your linguistic projects, StuTS is the place to present it to a broader audience. And last but not least – you’ll learn a lot of fascinating people!

The next StuTS will be a digital one. In May in Leipzig! Check out the website for more details such as deadlines.

Dear all,

My “Levels” students are preparing academic posters on their term-paper projects, to be presented this coming Thursday from 10 o’clock. Everyone interested in what we do in “Levels” and what a term-paper project can look like is invited to join the presentation and discussion.

Where: On Blackboard. Please find a course called “PHILGEIST_Ue_17336_20W: POSTER PRESENTATION Levels Grammar WiSe20/21” and self-enroll. 🙂 You’ll be taken directly to the discussion board where the posters are going to be.

When: Thursday, Feb 18, 2021, from 10 o’clock. Five-minute video presentations will be up on Wednesday already, so if you can’t make Thursday, stop by in your own time, have a look, and don’t hesitate to leave feedback/comments/questions!

Feel free to share this and pass on the invitation. All are welcome!

EDIT: There will be a live discussion as well, forgot to say that. Thursday (tomorrow!), 10-12, my Webex room.

Dear all,

A few years ago, in 2017, my colleagues Susanne Chrambach, Martin Konvicka and I hosted the 18th Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium at this department. (Martin, do you have some pictures? Yes, Martin does have some pictures!) Alexander and Shuk Han gave talks, and so did Professors Anatol Stefanowitsch and Ferdinand von Mengden, so we were almost all of us in it together it seems. 🙂 The NLK is a linguistics conference series where young researchers meet in a casual atmosphere and present their work, for instance the projects for their master’s or PhD theses. We had two wonderful days with lots of linguistics (and good food as well) and we enjoy thinking back to it.

This year, NLK is hosted by students in Oldenburg, online of course, and you’re all invited! It’s a great opportunity to listen to lots of talks, meet other people who love languages and see how conferences work, even if you do not have anything to present yourselves (yet). Here’s the announcement.

They also have a poster presentation, which is great because if you decide to take “Levels” or “History” with me next semester, you’ll have to present a poster, so it can’t hurt to see what they look like. 🙂

In a nutshell: You should all go!