Events

Graduate

Graduate admissions informational session

November 7, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Colloquia

Ryan Walter Smith colloquium: Growth and improvement: a quality semantics for partial change nominals

November 7, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

LinguisticsNOW colloquium: Jessica Coon

November 14, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomHarbour Centre
Talks

Keith Johnson workshop on PhonLab and Python for phonetics

November 20, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Research Seminars, Talks

Keith Johnson research talk: Acoustic and visual properties of vowels in Oakland, CA

November 21, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia, Talks

Suyuan Liu LOC colloquium

November 21, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Labs & Groups

Labs of Ling: Getting to know the department’s labs and research groups

November 28, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMCLD 3018
Colloquia

Sam Alxatib colloquium

November 28, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Information Session

Master of Data Science Computational Linguistics Alumni and Program Director Q&A Info Session

December 4, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Alumni, Graduate, Research Seminars, Talks

Qualifying paper presentations

December 12, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Dominic Alford-Duguid colloquium

January 9, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Yao Yao colloquium

January 16, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Megha Sundara colloquium

January 23, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Annette D'Onofrio colloquium

January 23, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Research Seminars

Ana Arrieta Zamudio & Ryan Bochnak research seminar

February 6, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Prerna Nadathur colloquium

March 6, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Naomi Caselli colloquium

March 13, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia, Talks

Bruce Oliver LOC colloquium

March 27, 2026 | 3:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Alumni, Graduate, Research Seminars, Talks

Qualifying paper presentations

April 17, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Karen Jesney colloquium: Segmental markedness and the acquisition of consonant clusters: Learning predictions vs. corpus data

October 31, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Chung-hye Han colloquium: Resumptive pronouns in relative clauses link with head nouns in incremental processing

October 24, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)

MDS Admissions Q&A

October 21, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomOnline
Talks

Research flash talks

October 17, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Research Seminars

Oksana Tkachman research seminar: Semantics-based spontaneous compounding emergence in artificial sign languages

October 10, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Hugo Quené colloquium: Self-monitoring of speech sound errors

October 3, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Lectures, Talks

Kathleen Currie Hall ‘Prof Talk’: Linguistics and Names

September 18, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomBrock Hall Compass Room (Room 3001)
Information Session

Unlock the Power of Your Data with UBC Master of Data Science Capstone

September 12, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Philosophy colloquium: David Liebesman and Ofra Magidor on polysemy

September 5, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomBUCH A102
Talks

Mariapaola D'Imperio's talk

June 25, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Conferences, Graduate

LinguisticsNEW UBC-SFU joint workshop

May 16, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
room302 Dodson Room
Graduate, Students, Talks

Qualifying paper presentations

April 14, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Sam Tilsen colloquium

April 11, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)

Sam Tilsen Language Sciences talk

April 10, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Colloquia

Starr Sandoval LOC colloquium

April 4, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomIrving K. Barber Learning Centre - 182
Colloquia

Elena Castroviejo-Miró virtual colloquium (at a special time)

March 21, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Talks

Language Sciences Book Talk: Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

March 20, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
room302 Dodson Room
Colloquia

Scott AnderBois colloquium

March 14, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Research Seminars

Kaili Vesik research seminar

March 7, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Research Seminars

Alexis K. Black research seminar

February 28, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Talks

Online Language Sciences talk: Voice Authenticity Under Siege: Detecting Synthesis and Identifying Voices in Forensic Speaker Recognition

February 27, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Research Seminars

CANCELED: Mitchi Kamigaki-Baron research seminar

February 14, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)

Language Sciences Panel Discussion: Sustaining Multilingualism: Heritage Language Education in Diverse Communities

February 12, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomPeña Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Colloquia

Eleanor Chodroff virtual colloquium

February 7, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Colloquia

Myriam Lapierre colloquium

January 31, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Research Seminars

Doug Sladen research seminar

January 24, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Research Seminars

Stefan Dollinger research seminar

January 17, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Information Session

MDS Computational Linguistics Program Director Q&A

January 15, 2025 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

LinguisticsNOW colloquium: Charles Chang

December 13, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomHarbour Centre 2270
Graduate, Students, Talks

Qualifying paper presentations (NB: this is on a Wednesday!)

December 11, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)

Field methods presentations

December 4, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
roomKoerner Library
Alumni, Information Session

Master of Data Science Admissions Q&A (December 2024)

December 3, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Farhan Samir LOC colloquium

November 29, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomSwing Space 221
Graduate, Students, Talks

Language sciences panel discussion on parallels between Indigenous languages and creoles

November 27, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomPeña Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Talks

Department research flash talks

November 22, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Paloma Jeretič virtual colloquium (at a special time)

November 15, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Research Seminars

Research seminar: Scott Mackie

November 8, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Research Seminars

Research Seminar - Samantha Jackson

November 1, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Alumni, Information Session, Students

UBC MDS Computational Linguistics Alumni Panel

October 25, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Colloquium - Ginny Dawson (Western Washington University)

October 18, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Colloquium - David Mortensen (Carnegie Mellon University)

September 20, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Colloquia

QP presentations

April 19, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Research Seminars

Research Seminar - Michelle Kamigaki-Baron

April 12, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

LOC colloquium - Rose Underhill

April 5, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomWEST MALL SWING SPACE (SWNG) 222
Research Seminars

Flash talks

March 22, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Colloquia

Colloquium - Kathryn Davidson (Harvard University)

March 15, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Colloquium - Brian Dillon (UMass Amherst)

March 8, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

Research Seminar - Katie Sardinha

March 1, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Colloquium - Jennifer Hay (University of Canterbury)

February 16, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

Research Seminar - TBD

February 9, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Research Seminars

Research Seminar - TBD

February 2, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Research Seminars

Research Seminar - Darko Odic (UBC Psychology)

January 26, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Research Seminars

Research Seminar - Joash Gambarage

January 19, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

TA training

January 12, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Information Session

MDS Computational Linguistics Program Director Q&A

January 10, 2024 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
roomOnline
Colloquia

QP presentations

December 8, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Alumni, Information Session

Master of Data Science Admissions Q&A

December 5, 2023 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

Research Seminar - Molly Babel, Line Lloy, Khushi Patil, and Khia Johnson

December 1, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia

Colloquium - Anna Mai (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

November 30, 2023 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
roomOnline
Colloquia

LOC colloquium - Gloria Mellesmoen

November 24, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomWest Mall Swing Space (SWNG) 221
Colloquia

LinguisticsNOW Colloquium - Jessica Rett (UCLA)

November 17, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomHarbour Centre 7000
Research Seminars

Research Seminar - Kaili Vesik

November 10, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Colloquia, Talks

Colloquium - Amy Rose Deal (University of California, Berkeley)

November 3, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

*RESCHEDULED!* Research Seminar - Molly Babel, Line Lloy, Khushi Patil, and Khia Johnson

October 27, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Information Session

UBC MDS Computational Linguistics Alumni Panel

October 27, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

Flash talks

October 20, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studio - Seminar Room (121)
Research Seminars

TA training workshop

September 29, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Research Seminars

Research Seminar - James Stratton (UBC)

September 22, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studios
Research Seminars

Research Seminar

September 15, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studios
Colloquia

LOC colloquium: Yurika Aonuki

August 11, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Colloquium - Ileana Paul

July 19, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studios
Colloquia

LOC Colloquium - Molly Babel

June 16, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Colloquium - Donald Derrick (University of Canterbury)

May 18, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studios

TA Training Event: Careers after your TAship

April 12, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

LOC Colloquium - Rachel Soo

March 31, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomANGU 098
Colloquia

Research Seminar - Tom Koss (University of Antwerp)

March 24, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studios
Colloquia

Department Flash Talks

March 17, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studios
Colloquia

Colloquium - Andrea Beltrama (University of Pennsylvania)

March 10, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

LinguisticsNOW Colloquium - Jeremy Calder (University of Colorado Boulder)

March 3, 2023 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomHarbour Centre 2270
Research Seminars

Research Seminar - Marie-Eve Bouchard (French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies)

February 17, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studios
Colloquia

Colloquium - Rachel Walker (UCSC)

February 10, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

TA Training: Pedagogical Strategies Workshop

February 3, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Colloquia

Colloquium - Meghan Sumner (Stanford)

January 27, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Colloquium - David Gramling (UBC Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies)

January 20, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studios
Information Session

MDS Computational Linguistics Program Director AMA

January 11, 2023 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

QP Presentations

December 9, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studios
Alumni, Information Session

Master of Data Science Admissions Q&A

December 6, 2022 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Emily Sadlier Brown - LOC Colloquium

December 2, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomWest Mall Swing Space - Room 221
Research Seminars

Research Seminar - Darius Adjong

November 25, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studios
Research Seminars

Research Seminar - Kaili Vesik & Kathleen Currie Hall

November 18, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studios
Colloquia

Colloquium - Philip J. Monahan (University of Toronto)

November 4, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

Research Seminar - Flash Talks

October 28, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTotem Field Studios
Alumni, Information Session

Master of Data Science in Computational Linguistics Alumni Panel

October 28, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

LinguisticsNOW Colloquium - Nicole Holliday

October 21, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline

TA Training: Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion in Linguistics Classrooms

October 7, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Colloquia

Colloquium - Vered Shwartz (UBC Computer Science)

September 23, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomTotem Field Studios

Indigenous Language Representation in Linguistics Classrooms Workshop

September 16, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Colloquia, Conferences, Graduate

4th Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL)

May 6, 2022 | 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM

Sandra Chung (UC Santa Cruz) colloquium: A Different Take on 'Tough'

May 3, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Research Seminars

QP Presentations: Weirui, Sander, Mitchi, Bruce

April 22, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Colloquia

Ife Adebara LOC colloquium

April 8, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Colloquia

LinguisticsNOW Colloquium: Josef Fruehwald (University of Kentucky)

April 1, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Colloquia

Margit Bowler (University of Manchester) colloquium

March 25, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Research Seminars

QP Presentations (online): Alex, Starr, Bruce

March 18, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Indigenous Language Representation in the Classroom workshop

March 11, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Colloquia

Cindy Blanco (Duolingo) colloquium

February 11, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Research Seminars

Flash Talks - Winter 2022

February 4, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

TA Training: Pedagogical Strategies Workshop

January 28, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Research Seminars

Rose-Marie Déchaine Research Seminar

January 21, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Research Seminars

Joash Gambarage Research Seminar

January 14, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

QP presentations

December 10, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Colloquia

LinguisticsNOW colloquium: Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)

December 3, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Colloquia

Roger Lo LOC colloquium

November 26, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Research Seminars

Bronwyn Bjorkman Research Seminar

November 19, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Research Seminars

Chris Hammerly Research Seminar

November 5, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Research Seminars

Flash Talks - Fall 2021

October 29, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Colloquia

Bernard Perley (Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies UBC) colloquium

October 8, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Research Seminars

Murray Schellenberg Research Seminar

October 1, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Colloquia

Alayo Tripp (University of Minnesota) colloquium

September 24, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia, Research Seminars, Talks

Samuel Akinbo LOC colloquium

June 11, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Conferences

Northwest Linguistics Conference

May 14, 2021 | 12:00 AM - May 16, 2021 | 11:59 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Anne Bertrand LOC colloquium

April 9, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Colloquia

Barbara Bullock and Jacqueline Almeida Toribio (University of Texas) colloquium

March 26, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

Molly Babel, Megan Keough, Elise McClay and Lisa Matthewson research seminar

March 19, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Donka Farkas colloquium

March 12, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

Flash talks (part 2) research seminar

March 5, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

Ryan Bochnak research seminar

February 26, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

Eva Csipak & Sarah Zobel research seminar

February 12, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Conferences, Students

Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference

February 12, 2021 | 12:00 AM - February 13, 2021 | 11:59 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Judith Tonhauser colloquium

February 5, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
roomOnline
Information Session

Heather Burge Indigenous Language Representation in Linguistic Classrooms

January 29, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Peggy Speas colloquium

January 22, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Charles B. Chang colloquium: ‘Phonological learning in multilingual contexts’

January 15, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Gillian De Boer LOC Colloquium: 'Happy talk: How smiling affects laryngeal movement and pitch'

November 27, 2020 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

Ife Adebara research seminar: ‘Translating the Unseen?’

November 20, 2020 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

Kaili Vesik research seminar

November 13, 2020 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

Muhammad Abdul-Mageed research seminar: ‘Computational Linguistics in the UBC Deep Learning & NLP Lab’

November 6, 2020 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Alan Yu colloquium: ‘Individual differences in categorization gradience: evidence from eye movement and neurophysiological measurements’

October 30, 2020 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline
Alumni, Information Session, Students

UBC MDS Computational Linguistics Student and Alumni Panel

October 30, 2020 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomOnline
Research Seminars

Flash talks research seminar

October 23, 2020 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Research Seminars

Anne-Michelle Tessier research seminar

October 16, 2020 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomOnline
Conferences

Language Sciences graduate student and postdoctoral fellow research day

October 16, 2020 | 9:00 AM - 5:10 PM
roomOnline
Colloquia

Elise Stickles colloquium: ‘Usage-based approaches to metaphor analysis and construction grammar’

October 2, 2020 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline