PhilSoc meetings
PhilSoc usually holds seven meetings each academic year, in October, November, January, February, March, May (AGM) and June. At most meetings, a full paper is read; other meetings take the format of a thematic symposium. Regular meetings start at 4.15pm, with tea served to members and their guests from 3.45pm. Unless indicated otherwise, meetings are held on Fridays, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG. For a detailed map, please click here. Significant announcements made at meetings are reported on the homepage of the Society's website.
PhilSoc welcomes proposals for papers to be read at meetings. Proposals should be forwarded to the Honorary Secretary (contact details on the Contact page). Papers may be on any topic falling within the scope of PhilSoc's interests, but speakers are asked to bear in mind that the audience will represent a wide range of linguistic interests, and papers should therefore be accessible to non-specialists.
2011--12 programme
10 Feb 2012
Dr Ilya Yakubovitch (State University of Moscow/University of Oxford)
Reconstructing multilingualism in the Ancient Near East
Sat 17 Mar 2012
Part of the two-day PhilSoc symposium: Synchrony and diachrony: variation and change in language history (details available on the PhilSoc homepage)
Dr David Willis (University of Cambridge)
Reanalysis and language contact in the Syntactic Atlas of Welsh Dialects
At Worcester College, Oxford OX1 2HB
11 May 2012
Discussion forum, chaired by Prof. Peter Trudgill, FBA
Language--Community--Identity
At the British Academy, 11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Sat 9 Jun 2012
Annual General Meeting
Prof. Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire)
Historical pragmatics: evidence from the Old Bailey
At St John's College, Cambridge CB2 1TP
15 Jun 2012
One-day symposium: Language contact in the West Germanic languages, 400--1200
Various speakers (Details to appear on the PhilSoc homepage)
In the Sweelinckzaal at Utrecht University, Drift 21, 3512, BR Utrecht, The Netherlands