About CALMS CALMS (Careers, Alumni and Linguistics at Michigan State) 2023 is scheduled from Friday, November 17, to Saturday, November 18 in Wells Hall and remotely on Zoom. This occasion serves as a platform for fostering connections between present MSU Linguistics students and alumni. On Friday afternoon, engaging lightning talks will highlight the program's research in a dynamic and easily understandable manner, adding an element of friendly competition. Following this, there will be an informal mingling session to facilitate networking. Additionally, we are thrilled to announce our guest speakers for the event: Dr. Monica Nesbitt (Ph.D. 2019) and Dr. Ni-La Lê (Ph.D. 2020).
On Saturday, the CALMS event continues with two insightful workshops. Monica will lead an interactive session on navigating the academic job market, while Ni-La will provide valuable insights into transitioning from academia to industry. These workshops aim to equip attendees with practical skills and knowledge for their future career paths. Please RSVP if you plan on attending the event(s).
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Event Schedule
Event |
Time |
Room |
Opening Comments |
Friday 11/17 2:00pm-2:10pm |
Wells B243 |
Five Minute Linguist Session I |
2:10pm-2:55pm |
Wells B243 |
Comparing Mande ‘Particle Verbs’ with Germanic Particle Verbs (Jason Smith) |
2:10pm-2:25pm |
Wells B243 |
A simple semantics of face emoji (Yaxuan Wang) |
2:25pm-2:40pm |
Wells B243 |
Conversational Comfort and Linguistic Insecurity with Respect to Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Transness (Shannon Harasta) |
2:40pm-2:55pm |
Wells B243 |
Coffee Break |
2:55pm-3:30pm |
Wells B243 |
Five Minute Linguist Session II |
3:30pm-4:15pm |
Wells B243 |
Not all sound changes in progress are used in early-adolescent stancetaking (Adam Barnhardt) |
3:30pm-3:45pm |
Wells B243 |
How can I eat three apples without ever finishing them? (Jingying Xu) |
3:45pm-4:00pm |
Wells B243 |
(TBA) |
4:00pm-4:15pm |
Wells B243 |
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 |
Breakfast |
Saturday 11/18 9:30am-10:00am |
Wells B342 |
Workshop: Transitioning from Academia (Ni-La Lê) |
10:00am-11:30am |
Wells B342 |
Lunch |
11:30am-12:30pm |
Wells B342 |
Workshop: Navigating the Academic Job Market (Monica Nesbitt) |
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, inspired by our alumni Ai Taniguchi who won the Five-Minute Linguist 2019. Watch the video of her talk "Why we say stuff." 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 Monica.
A prize will be given to the winner of CALMS Five-Minute Linguist.
A prize will be given to the winner of CALMS Five-Minute Linguist.
The Workshops
Transitioning from academia
Dr. Ni-La Lê
Apple
The workshop will discuss 3 key topics around career in tech:
1. Job Search as a Self-Discovery Journey
2. Interviews as Conversations
3. Career Development as an Expert
The workshop aims to share experience and tips on searching for a job outside academia, having good interviews, and growing at corporate workplace.
1. Job Search as a Self-Discovery Journey
2. Interviews as Conversations
3. Career Development as an Expert
The workshop aims to share experience and tips on searching for a job outside academia, having good interviews, and growing at corporate workplace.
Navigating the academic job market
Dr. Monica Nesbitt
Indiana University
In this workshop, Monica will draw on her experiences as a job candidate and as a faculty member to go over many aspects of navigating the academic job market. We will examine the current landscape of linguistics academic jobs to get a sense of what to expect when we go on the market. We will then answer some common job market questions such as How you do I prepare for the academic job market early, What does a competitive record look like, Where can I get help?, and What do I do if I get an interview. Finally, we’ll examine some typical academic job market advertisements to better understand how we decipher what a search committee is looking for.
About our Speakers
Monica Nesbitt (Ph.D., 2019)
Monica Nesbitt is an assistant professor in the Indiana University Department of Linguistics. Utilizing a variety of experimental, observational, and corpus techniques, her scholarship centers around the impact of society on phonological systems. Professor Nesbitt received her PhD in linguistics from Michigan State University and her MA in linguistics from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her dissertation, under the guidance of Suzanne Evans Wagner, provides an analysis of how Michigan English was impacted by economic change (from a mostly manufacturing to service industry society) in the late 20th century. Recent projects include fieldwork in Boston Black neighborhoods, a book project probing broader 20th century changes in North America and creating a phonological atlas of African American Language. Her recent courses: field methods in sociolinguistics, experimental sociolinguistics, and African American Language.
Ni-La Lê (Ph.D., 2020)
Ni-La Lê is currently a User Experience Researcher at Apple, where she has been working on different products such as Voice Assistant, Dictation, etc. since June 2019. Prior to joining Apple, Ni-La was a PhD student specializing on First Language Acquisition: most of her research involved how Vietnamese-speaking children learn their own language.
Sponsored by
MSU Linguistics Graduate Program |