FYIs

Congratulations to Psychology Ph.D. student Wai Man Wong (Clinical Psychology at Queens Training Area) for receiving the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Summer 2023 Fellowship.

Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Virginia Valian on her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!

This year’s election of new members to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences maintains a commitment to honoring excellence that began more than 240 years ago. In 1780, the Academy’s founders – including John Adams and John Hancock – envisioned an organization that would recognize accomplished individuals and engage them in addressing the greatest challenges facing the young nation. The first members elected to the Academy in 1781 included Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. Today, the Academy continues to be both an honorary society, electing new members from the non-profit, private, and public sectors, and an independent policy organization with initiatives in the arts, democracy, education, global affairs, and science. A total of 269 outstanding individuals have been elected to the Academy in 2023. https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2023

Students in the fall 2022 Field Methods class is presenting "Question Formation in Adara" at UConn's 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, June 12-14th, 2023.  
The student authors are: Josh Amaris, Emmanuel Bawa, Zhilang Liu, Aidan Malanoski, Margaret Matte, Olivia Mignone, Nhu-Anh Nguyen, Shane Quinn and Alaa Sharif. 

Alum Sooran Choi (Art History Ph.D. '18) has won a grant from the Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative at CUNY to direct a Cross-Gender-Ethnic-Korean-Asian Studies Initiative at Brooklyn College, where she teaches in the Art Department.  As part of that initiative, she is running a symposium to foreground Korean studies while taking an intersectional approach to the subject.  The symposium will be held Saturday and Sunday, April 22-23, online.  More information can be found here.

Luisa Valle who finished her dissertation in 2022, received an Honorable Mention from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) for her dissertation "The Beehive, the Favela, the Castle, and the Ministry: Race and Modern Architecture in Rio de Janeiro, 1811 to 1945." Congrats to Luisa! All the LASA awards are listed here. 

Prof. Cece Cutler gave a talk at the Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS) at the University of Bern on April 5, 2023 titled 'Embodied styles and affect in sociolinguistics".

Emmanuel Bawa''s co-authored paper titled, Cross-linguistic influence in the mid vowels of Hausa/Ekhwa speakers was accepted for oral presentation at ICPhS 2023, August 7-11th, 2023.

The 51^st Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation  
The conference theme of NWAV51 is “Variation in the World’s Languages”

NWAV is an annual academic conference on linguistic variation attracting researchers and students conducting scientific research into patterns of language variation, the study of language change in progress, and the interrelationship between language and society.

NWAV51 is hosted by Queens College (QC) and the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS).

We encourage submissions addressing language contact, multilingualism, and variation in different domains across many languages, including those that have been understudied. Moreover, given the interdisciplinary nature of RISLUS, that goal also includes expanding the variationist enterprise methodologically and theoretically.  

Location:  Queens College/CUNY
Theme:  Variation in the World’s Languages
Date:  October 13-15, 2023

Call for Abstracts: We invite abstract submissions for papers and posters! Quantitative and qualitative work on variation in any linguistic domain is welcomed, especially submissions that align with the conference theme (Variation in the World’s Languages): variation in bi-multilingualism; cross-linguistic variation; variation in understudied languages.

Submission Deadline:  May 31, 2023

Amal Aissaoui (Ph.D. student) gave a talk at SYNC on "The syntactic status of non-restrictive relative clauses in Tunisian Arabic", on March 4^th at Yale University. 

Ken Wissoker took part in the 2023 AAS Annual Conference spoke in Boston on March 17, 2023 as discussant in the roundtable entitled:  "Producing Knowledge on China and the Global South: A Multi-Stakeholder Reflection."