Studies in Language, Information,
Meaning, and Expression • 2022

About

This is the website of the SLIME workshop at UCLA. Faculty organizers: Joshua Armstrong, Sam Cumming, and Gabriel Greenberg. Graduate student organizers: Seungtaek Lee, James Gu, and Jenny Wu.

All are welcome. Please refresh this page as we update our information.


Format

The conference is pre-read. Each session is 120 minutes. The commentator will start the session with 15–20 min discussion. The speaker may reply for up to 15 minutes. The rest is Q+A.


Schedule

The workshop is June 15–17 at UCLA.

Wednesday, June 15: Royce Hall 306 (Herb Morris Room)
12:00–1:00pm  Lunch (Herb Morris Room Patio)
1:00–3:00pm  Jessica Keiser, “Social Structures in Context”. [request video*] [slides] Commentator: Cosmo Grant.
3:30–5:30pm  Luvell Anderson, “Notorious Thugs”. [pdf] Commentator: Kate Ritchie.
*Please request by emailing: jamesgu10@g.ucla.edu.

Thursday, June 16: Royce Hall 306 (Herb Morris Room)
12:00–1:00pm  Lunch (Herb Morris room patio)
1:00–3:00pm  Nate Charlow, “Experiential Content”. [pdf] Commentator: Una Stojnić.
3:30–5:30pm  Malihe Alikhani, “Image-Text Coherence”. [pdf] Commentator: Christian De Leon.

Friday, June 17: Royce Hall 306 (Herb Morris Room)
Note change of time.
9:30–11:30am  Carlotta Pavese and Josh Armstrong, “Language as Skill”. [pdf] Commentator: Hayley Clatterbuck.
11:45am–1:15pm  Sam Cumming and Gabriel Greenberg, “The Tree of Meaning”. [video] [slides] (No commentator.)
1:15–2:00pm  Lunch (Herb Morris room patio)

Questions? Please email James Gu (jamesgu10@g.ucla.edu).


SLIME is made possible through the generosity of the Kaplan-Panzer fund.