Academic Year 2024-2025
TBD
Note: Zoom below = Zoom Event
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
ECOM Spotlight Series is where we turn the spotlights to our members and they present their ongoing research to our interdisciplinary community. We established this new series in 2019.
Academic Year 2023-2024
Note: Zoom below = Zoom Event
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| Apr 11 | 12:15 – 1:30 pm | Zoom | Emily Myers | |
| Mar 28 | 11 am – 12:30 pm | Zoom | Aliyar Ozercan | Prepositional Attitudes |
| Feb 29 | 11 am – 12:30 pm | Zoom | Ben Winokur | Defeaters for Privileged Access? |
| Jan 29 | 2:15 – 3:30 pm | Zoom | Michael Hegarty | The Problem of ‘Creeping Rationalism’ |
| Nov 30 | 11 am – 12:30 pm | Zoom | Christopher Rahlwes | The Acquisition of Negation |
| Nov 9 | 11 am – 12:30 pm | Zoom | William Snyder | Relating Child Language Development to Neurodevelopment |
Academic Year 2022-2023
Note: Zoom below = Zoom Event
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| Mar 30 | 11 am – 12:30 pm | Zoom | Hady Ba | Ideophones and Expressivism |
| Jan 26 | 11 am – 12:30 pm | Zoom | Julian Schloeder | Pragmatism and the Attitudes |
| Nov 9 | 2:00pm-3.15pm | Zoom | Marie Coppola | How interacting minds make language: The creative forces behind homesign, sign languages, and all human communication |
| Sept 28 | 2:00pm-3.15pm | Zoom | Michael Hegarty | Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness and Origins of Agency |
Academic Year 2021-2022
Note: Zoom below = Zoom Event
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| Apr 14 | 2pm-3:15pm | Zoom | Constant Bonard | Expressivism doesn’t exclude descriptivism: The meaning of slurs and other affectively loaded words |
| Mar 31 | 2pm-3:15pm | Zoom | Kate Stanton | Sarcastic Air Quotes are Expressive Privatives |
| Mar 10 | 2pm-3:15pm | Zoom | Mitch Green | Verbal Signaling |
| Nov 15 | 2:30pm-4pm | Zoom | Mengyu Hu | Unifying the Bifurcation: A Lesson from Constructivism about Emotion |
| Oct 11 | Cancelled | Zoom | Charles Davis | The role of situation in understanding abstract concepts |
| Sept 20 | 2:30pm-4pm | Zoom | Jenelle Salisbury | The Unity of Consciousness and the First-Person Perspective |
Academic Year 2020-2021
Note: WBX below = WebEx Event
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| Apr 1 | 12:00pm-1:30pm | WBX | Ben Winokur | Neo-Expressivism and the Matching Principle |
| Mar 11 | 12:00pm-1:30pm | WBX | Nadja-Mira Yolcu | Disavowals: A Challenge for Expressivism? |
| Feb 25 | 12:00pm-1:30pm | WBX | Yanina Prystauka | Investigating the Interplay between Morphosyntax and Memory for Events: The Case of Past Participles |
| Dec 3 | 12:00pm-1:30pm | WBX | Nimra Asif | Minimal Theory of Mind – A Millikanian Approach |
| Oct 15 | 12:15pm-1:30pm | WBX | Eno Agolli | This might not be an expressivist position |
| Sept 24 | 12:15pm-1:30pm | WBX | Drew Johnson | Proper Function and Ethical Judgment: Towards a Biosemantic Account of Ethical Thought and Discourse |
Academic Year 2019-2020
Note: ARJ below = Arjona 307
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
| March 5 | 12pm-1:30pm | ARJ | Harry van der Hulst | The Innateness Debate in Linguistics |
| Feb 6 | 12pm-1:30pm | ARJ | Dimitris Xygalatas | The Puzzle of Ritual |
| Dec 5 | 12pm-1:30pm | ARJ | Eiling Yee | Fluid Semantics: Conceptual knowledge is experience-based and dynamic |
| Oct 17 | 12pm-1:30pm | ARJ | Emily Myers | Language Plasticity on Multiple Timescales. |