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.
2012-13 programme
8 February 2013
Dr Andrew Koontz-Garboden (University of Manchester)
Semantic variation and the grammar of property concepts
Saturday 9 March 2013
Dr John Penney (University of Oxford)
Aspects of palatalisation in Tocharian
10 May 2013
Professor David Denison (University of Manchester)
Parts of speech: solid citizens or slippery customers?
Saturday 8 June 2013
Annual General Meeting
Professor Sylvia Adamson (University of Sheffield)
Re-philologising historical linguistics