Lecture Series

Below is a list of previous lecture series.

• April 2016
  Dr. Kirk Hazen
  Department of English, West Virginia University
  "Recent Research in English on Appalachia"
  
  
• April, 2012
  William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
  University of Georgia
  "Complexity Theory in Language Study: Corpus Linguistics, Lexicogrammar and Variation"
  
  
• March 2010
  Dr Steven Thorne
  Department of Applied Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University
  "Use-value and usage-based approaches to language in the lifeworld"
  
  
• February 2010
  Bill Landry
  The Heartland Series
  
  
• Tuesday, April 14, 2009
  5:15p-6:15p
  Black Cultural Center
  Dr. John Baugh
  Professor of Linguistics and Education, Washington University and Stanford University
  "Linguistic Diversity and Discrimination in American Schools and Society"
  
  
• Thursday, February 28, 2008
  4:00p-5:00p
  127 Hodges Library
  Professor Thomas Stroik
  Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College of Letters, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  "Towards a Crash-Proof Syntax"
  Professor Stroik's talk is presented in conjunction with the Crash-Proof Grammars Conference at Carson-Newman College 29 February-1 March
  
  
• Tuesday, November 1, 2007
  1:00-2:00 pm
  McClung Tower, Rm 1210-1211
  Susan Berk-Seligson
  Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies and Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Vanderbilt University
  "Wrongfully convicted? Evidence of coercion in a police interrogation"
  Professor Berk-Seligson is author of The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process, 1990 and 2002 University of Chicago Press), awarded the prize for Outstanding Book in the Field of Applied Linguistics by the British Association of Applied Linguistics and nominated for the Scribes Book Award by the American Bar Association.
  
  
• Thursday, October 27, 2007
  6:30-8:00 pm
  Lawson-McGee Library, in the Rothrock Cafe
  (downtown at 800 W. Church St, parking free on street)
  Bethany Dumas
  Department of English, University of Tennessee
  "Southern Mountain Speech: Appalachia & the Ozarks"
  
  
• Thursday, October 27, 2007
  4:30-6:00 pm
  McClung Tower, Rm 1210-1211
  David Barnhart
  Publisher, Editor, and Lexicographer
  "The New World of Lex"
  
  
• Wednesday, October 26, 2007
  12:20-1:10 pm
  College of Law, Rm 136
  David Barnhart
  Publisher, Editor, and Lexicographer
  "Trademarks -- Law and Lexicography"