The Tenth MACSIM
The Tenth MACSIM
Saturday 4/6/24, the Departments of Linguistics and Philosophy host the Tenth MACSIM - or Mid-Atlantic Colloquium for Studies on Meaning - a dozen years after hosting the Second, featuring an invited talk by Sam Alxatib from the Linguistics Department at the CUNY Graduate Center. This year the slate of Terpresentations is Sarah Boukendour, Fëdor Golosov, and Elizabeth Swanson, plus Yunhui Bai and Caleb Kendrick from Philosophy. Caleb is giving our student talk, reporting a joint project with Jéssica Mendes, last year's speaker. Students from other universities will provide 6 more short talks, and a couple dozen more posters, on a range of topics to do with linguistic meaning. Further details are here, along with a link to register.
MACSIM is a regional workshop on issues related to meaning in natural language. It consists of oral presentations and posters by graduate students from the participating departments in the Mid-Atlantic: NYU, CUNY, Rutgers, Penn, Delaware, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Georgetown. Faculty from these departments participate in audience discussion. There is also one invited talk by a faculty member, and plenty of time to get to know people and their work.
MACSIM was started a decade and a half ago by a group of then assistant professors in our area, including Valentine and Alexander, led by Florian Schwarz at Penn. This will be the first MACSIM we've hosted at Maryland since the arrivals of four new faculty in our meaning group - Paolo Santorio and Fabrizio Cariani in Philosophy, Aron Hirsch and Omar Agha in Linguistics - who join us in keeping this wonderful tradition alive.
This 10th MACSIM is supported by the Department of Linguistics, the Department of Philosophy, the Maryland Language Science Center, and the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park. The organizing committee comprises students and faculty from Linguistics and Philosophy.
