UCSB Linguistics

05/28/2026

Linguistics Colloquium
Thursday, May 28, 2026
South Hall 3605 & via Zoom, 3:30-5 pm

Geocentric languages and the perception of the Earth’s magnetic field
Felicity Meakins, University of Queensland

https://www.instagram.com/ucsb_linguistics/p/DY27PzYBW0S/

05/13/2026

Linguistics Colloquium
Thursday, May 14, 2026
3:30-5 pm

South Hall (SH) 3605 & via Zoom: 

Learning to Talk about Emotions: Cognitive, Social, and Technological Factors in Children's Development of Emotion Language

Ashvini Varatharaj
UCSB

04/27/2026

Linguistics Colloquium
Thurs 30 April 2026
SH 3605 & via Zoom, 3:30 pm PDT

Indigenous Amazonians vs. Facebook Algorithms: How Shipibo-Konibos Mediatize Community on Facebook
Jennifer Sierra
Wolf Humanities Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania 
President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara

03/11/2026

UCSB Linguistics Colloquium
Thursday 12 March 2026
SH 3605 + via Zoom

Commodified Inclusion: Trans Language and Platforms
Cedar Brown, UCSB

02/17/2026

Linguistics Colloquium
Thursday, February 19, 2026, 3:30-5 pm
South Hall (SH) 3605 & via Zoom

Ellipsis in Heritage Languages
Rodrigo Ranero, UCLA

02/03/2026

Linguistics Colloquium
Thurs Feb 5, 330 pm

Innovations in Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Kihunde (A Bantu Language from DRC)

Kyle Jerro
San Diego State University

01/16/2026

Submission deadline 1/19!

4 days left!
WAIL abstract submission deadline has been extended to January 19th. Please submit your abstracts!
https://linguistlist.org/issues/37/53/

10/30/2025

Linguistics Colloquium 
Thursday, 3:30 pm, October 30, 2025
via Zoom

Tone and stress in Carranza Tsotsil (Mayan)
Gilles Polian
CIESAS

08/29/2025

UCSB's Marie Webb (English for Multilingual Students) is co-editor of "Radical Inclusivity: Critical Language Awareness in the Language and Writing Classroom" - book of the year for CLA in education! An amazing slate of teachers and authors, with practical activities and hands-on lessons provided by each contributor.