2024 events

Beu-reo-cracy - LPP for te reo Māori in 2024

  • 04 October, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Dr. Vini Olsen-Reeder, Kaiwhakamahere Reo - Kaiako Reo, Tangata Tiriti Learning Capability, Statistics New Zealand
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"Beautiful, young, white, and blonde". How Image Generative AI Reinforces Harmful Gender Norms

  • 20 September, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Carla Moriarty, Master's student, School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Interpreting in NZ: research on training and practice

  • 13 September, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenters: Christal Guo and Tineke Jannink, PhD candidates, School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.
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Undergraduate students' experiences studying the humanities and social sciences at VUW

  • 6 September, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Dr. Rachael Ruegg, Senior Lecturer, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Social evaluation of variation in NZSL

  • 16 August, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenters: Assoc. Prof. Rachel McKee and Sara Pivac Alexander MA, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Recent lexical expansion and change in New Zealand Sign Language

  • 9 August, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Dr. Mireille (Micky) Vale, Research Fellow, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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ELI staff flash talks

  • 2 August, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenters: ELI staff, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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PhD celebration

  • 26 July, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenters: Dr. Xiaopeng Xu and Dr. Quynh Le, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Sociophonetics and sexual orientation in the Wellington region

  • 19 July, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenter: Aimee Herubin, PhD candidate, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Saami in education: Translanguaging and Spaces for Saami language use

  • 26 June, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5.00 pm
  • Presenters: Associate Professor David Kroik and Maajja-Krihke Bransfjell, Nord university
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Ian Gordon Fellow Public Lecture 2024: The ‘Ecstasy’ of Language

  • 18 June, 2024 from 6.00 pm - 7.00 pm
  • Presenter: Professor Christopher Stroud, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
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PhD candidates flash talks

PhD celebration: Phuong Cao and Priska Pramastiwi

  • 24 May, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5 pm
  • Presenters: Dr. Phuong Cao, Lecturer, Faculty of English, Hanoi National University of Education and Dr. Priska Pramastiwi, Victoria University of Wellington
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PhD Celebration: A Sociolinguistic study of Language Documentation of the Denggan Language (Banam Bay Malekula, Vanuatu)

‘You’re a rational guy – sort your shit out’: The mind, the body, and functional neurological disorder

  • 10 May, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5 pm
  • Presenter: Dr Shelley Dawson, Lecturer, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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A topic in historical linguistics: the death of compounds in Germanic

  • 26 April, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5 pm
  • Presenter: Prof. Laurie Bauer FRSNZ, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Using storytelling to guide L2 pronunciation development

The colonization of the colour pink: colour names and colour categories in te reo Māori

  • 22 March, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5 pm
  • Presenters: Dr. Victoria Chen, Senior Lecturer, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies and Prof. Neil Dodgson, Professor of Computer Graphics, School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington
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te reo Māori loanword phonology

  • 15 March, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5 pm
  • Presenter: Craig Stansfield, BA(Hons) student, Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
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Gender, Language, and Bilingualism - New Perspectives on the Processing of Gender Stereotypes

  • 13 March, 2024 from 12.00 pm - 12.50 pm
  • Presenter: Joanna Porkert, PhD Candidate, Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), University of Groningen
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EMI and CLIL in the context of Japanese national policy for internationalization of universities.

  • 8 March, 2024 from 4.10 pm - 5 pm
  • Presenter: Dr. Maria Vassileva, Associate Professor, Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nagoya University
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A big, bright future for language science.

  • 1 March, 2024 from 12.00 pm - 12.50 pm
  • Presenter: Prof. Russell Gray FRSNZ, Director, Department of Linguistic and cultural Evolution, University of Auckland and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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