About CALMSCALMS (Careers, Alumni and Linguistics at Michigan State) 2019 takes place Friday November 22 to Saturday November 23 in B-342 Wells Hall. The event connects current students with alumni of the MSU Linguistics program. Competitive lightning talks on Friday afternoon will showcase the program’s research in a fun and accessible way, followed by an informal mingling session. We’ll also introduce our two guest speakers: Ai Taniguchi (Ph.D., 2017) and Steve Johnson (Ph.D., 2012). On Saturday morning, Ai and Steve will offer interactive workshops on pitching your linguistics degree to future employers, and packaging your research for diverse audiences including the general public.
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Event Schedule
Event |
Time |
Room |
Opening Comments |
Friday 11/22 2:00pm-2:10pm |
Wells B342 |
Five Minute Linguist Session I |
2:10pm-3:00pm |
Wells B342 |
I ate my companion rice (Jason Smith) |
2:10pm-2:20pm |
Wells B342 |
Mandarin Self-Referential Expressions: A sociolinguistic study (Yunting Gu) |
2:20pm-2:30pm |
Wells B342 |
Can I express the pass when I'm not expressing the past?- Tense in Mandarin (Yongqing Ye) |
2:30pm-2:40pm |
Wells B342 |
The Art of Accessible Academic Presentations (Ai Taniguchi) |
2:40pm-2:55pm |
Wells B342 |
Coffee Break |
3:00pm-3:30pm |
Wells B342 |
Five Minute Linguist Session II |
3:30pm-4:15pm |
Wells B342 |
When we mean more than we say: the puzzle of or (Rachel Stacey) |
3:30pm-3:40pm |
Wells B342 |
Learning a first language immersed in a messy environment (Cristina Schmitt) |
3:40pm-3:50pm |
Wells B342 |
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Word Like (Irina Zaykovskaya) |
3:50pm-4:00pm |
Wells B342 |
Navigating jobs outside academia as a linguist (Steve Johnson) |
4:00pm-4:15pm |
Wells B342 |
Mingling, Snacks, and Beverages |
4:30pm-6:00pm |
Wells B 2nd Floor Atrium |
Five Minute Linguist Winner Announcement |
4:45pm |
Wells B 2nd Floor Atrium |
Saturday 11/23 10:00am-11:30am |
Wells B342 |
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Lunch |
11:30am-12:30pm |
Wells B342 |
12:30pm-2:00pm |
Wells B342 |
Wells Hall
619 Red Cedar Rd.
East Lansing, Michigan
619 Red Cedar Rd.
East Lansing, Michigan
About the Five-Minute Linguist Competition
The Five-Minute Linguist is originally a high-profile event held by the Linguistic Society of America, which features eight LSA members giving lively and engaging presentations about their research in a manner accessible to the general public. No notes, no podium, and an actual timer. CALMS is holding its own version of the Five-Minute Linguist Competition. The goal of this event is to encourage linguists to practice presenting their work to a broad audience and to showcase outstanding examples of members who can explain their research in an accessible way. These five-minute presentations are judged by our alumni and guest speaker Ai Taniguchi who won the Five-Minute Linguist 2019. Watch the video of her talk "Why we say stuff."
A special prize will be given to the winner of CALMS Five-Minute Linguist.
A special prize will be given to the winner of CALMS Five-Minute Linguist.
The Workshops
SMORE: The Art of Accessible Academic Presentations
Ai Taniguchi
Carleton University
In this workshop, Ai will demonstrate the core strategies for designing an accessible academic talk, which she calls the SMORE of accessible presentations:
- Simplify: Use simple language but preserve the core content!
- Make them feel smart: The audience should feel like they were able to understand a complex topic on their own!
- Overall picture: Give the "gist" of your research that is neither a lie nor a multitude of omissions!
- Revisit research question: Frame your talk primarily around a "big picture" question and secondarily around a data-specific question!
- Examples: Answer the questions via linguistic examples, especially descriptively unacceptable ones!
Workshop participants are encouraged to bring an abstract they have recently written. By the end of the workshop, you will have written a "5 Minute Linguist" style version of the abstract and will receive critical feedback from the 2019 winner herself!
Navigating Jobs Outside of Academia as a Linguist
Steve Johnson
IXL
This workshop will give information about finding linguistics jobs outside of academia, using jobs available in the tech industry as a model. The workshop will walk through a typical non-academic job pipeline, from researching jobs to the on-site interview, exploring common pitfalls that linguists coming from academia face while entering industry. The workshop will help provide insight about the range of non-academic jobs available for linguists, strategies that linguists can use to better communicate with non-linguistics during a job search, and tools to help achieve success on the job market (both academic and non-academic).
About our Speakers
Ai Taniguchi (Ph.D., 2017)
Ai Taniguchi specializes in formal semantics and pragmatics. Much of her research concerns issues in non-at-issue meaning in natural language: her dissertation explored topics in non-truth-conditional intensification such as exclamative constructions. More recently, she has worked on the semantics-sociolinguistics interface and analyzes social meaning using formal semantic theory. Ai is also an advocate for linguistics outreach and pedagogy, and the winner of the 5-Minute Linguist competition at the 2019 Linguistic Society of America annual meeting.
She is currently an instructor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) and has received various awards for her work in teaching introductory linguistics and formal semantics courses.
She is currently an instructor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) and has received various awards for her work in teaching introductory linguistics and formal semantics courses.
Steve Johnson (Ph.D., 2012)
Steve Johnson is a Lead Curriculum Designer at IXL Learning, where he has been working as a member of the Language Arts team since 2014. He serves as the team recruiting lead and the leader of strategic projects for ELA. His current projects include supporting and improving the English language diagnostic and managing ongoing localization efforts.
Prior to working at IXL, Steve graduated from Michigan State in 2012 with a PhD in sociolinguistics after completing his dissertation titled Personality, Gender, and the Northern Cities Shift. During his career at MSU, Steve taught various classes in the Linguistics & Languages, English, IAH, and WRAC departments in addition to teaching ESL classes and various classes at UM-Flint.
Steve's current research interests lie in performance pedagogies for English learners, applications of sociolinguistic principles in the classroom, literacy instruction in linguistically diverse environments, literacy assessment, and technology in teaching and learning.
Prior to working at IXL, Steve graduated from Michigan State in 2012 with a PhD in sociolinguistics after completing his dissertation titled Personality, Gender, and the Northern Cities Shift. During his career at MSU, Steve taught various classes in the Linguistics & Languages, English, IAH, and WRAC departments in addition to teaching ESL classes and various classes at UM-Flint.
Steve's current research interests lie in performance pedagogies for English learners, applications of sociolinguistic principles in the classroom, literacy instruction in linguistically diverse environments, literacy assessment, and technology in teaching and learning.
Organizing Committee Members
Josh Herrin (CALMS co-chair) Shannon Cousins (CALMS co-chair) Yunting Gu Yongqing Ye Isaac Sarver Suzanne Evans Wagner (Director of Graduate Studies) |