Previous Seasons Meetings

We are pleased to announce that PhilSoc is, together with the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, hosting a public event on 'Variation in Scots' in Edinburgh on 25 April 2018, 6.30 pm. The event will be chaired by Professor Jeremy Smith FRSE, Professor of English Philology, University of Glasgow.

Speakers are: Bruce Eunson, Scots Language Coordinator, Education Scotland; Michael Hance, Director, Scots Language Centre; Alice Heywood, Learning Officer, National Library of Scotland; Professor Robert McColl Millar, Professor in Linguistics and Scottish Language, University of Aberdeen; Professor Jennifer Smith, Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Glasgow. For further information and to book a free place, please click here or here.

The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place on Saturday 10 March 2018 at Cambridge. Prof. Patrick Sims-Williams, Aberystwyth University, will speak on 'Mechanising historical phonology'. The meeting will take place at 4.15 in Selwyn College. Tea will be served from 3.45.

The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place on Friday 9 February 2018 at SOAS. Dr Dagmar Divjak, Sheffield, will speak on 'Language, learning and usage-based theory: tackling nominal and verbal morphology in Slavic '. The meeting will take place at 4.15 in Room 116 in the main SOAS building. Tea will be served from 3.45.

The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place on Friday 12 January 2018 at SOAS. Dr Sam Wolfe, Oxford, will speak on 'Syntactic microvariation in Romance: bridging synchrony and diachrony'. The meeting will take place at 4.15 in Room 116 in the main SOAS building. Tea will be served from 3.45.

The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place in Manchester on Saturday 18^th of November, 1.30. Postdoctoral researchers Dr Lauren Fonteyn (Manchester), Dr Eva Zehentner (York) and Dr Kari Kinn (Oslo) will make presentations on Approaches to Grammatical Change, followed by a round table discussion chaired by Prof. Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Manchester). The meeting will be in University Place, Oxford Road, Room  5.206. Refreshments will be served from 1.00.

The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place on Friday 20 October 2017 in Garden Halls,1 Cartwright Gardens, Kings Cross, London, WC1H 9EN, University of London. Dr Kriszta Szendröi, UCL, will speak on 'A flexible approach to focus and the syntax-prosody interface.' The meeting will be in Room 3D. Tea will be served from 3.45.

The AGM of PhilSoc will be held in Selwyn College, Cambridge on Saturday 17 June at 4.15 (tea from 3.45) followed by the President's lecture on 'Standards, norms and prescriptivism'. All welcome.

This year's Anna Morpurgo Davies Lecture will take place on Friday 12 May at the British Academy (London). Prof. Bencie Woll, University College London, will speak on 'Language through Deaf eyes'. There will be British Sign Language interpreting. The lecture will take place at 4.15 with a drinks reception afterwards. For an abstract of the lecture and information about the speaker, please click below or see the British Academy website.

The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place on Saturday 11 March 2017 at Oxford. Prof. Jonathan Hope, University of Strathclyde, will speak on '"Counting": quality and quantity in literary language and tools for investigating it'. The meeting will take place at 4.15 in Wolfson College. Tea will be served from 3.45.

The next meeting of PhilSoc will take place on Friday 10 February 2017 at SOAS. Dr Alexander King, Franklin & Marshall College, USA, will speak on 'Ethnopoetic philology and the power of narrative for endangered voices'. The meeting will take place at 4.15 in Room 116 in the main SOAS building. Tea will be served from 3.45.