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Tomayto Tomahto

Sociolinguistic Labor and Linguistic Oppression with Dr. Kelly Elizabeth Wright |

31 March 2024

Full Measure with Sheryl Atkinson

What's in a Name | 11 February 2024

That Word Chat

Episode 70: Word of the Year 2023 | 09 January 2024

Verticalization & African American Sociolinguistic Labor

The Language Institute at UW-Madison | 08 September 2023

Awareness, Objectification, & Equity: Linguistics in a Hostile Workspace  

University of Utah Department of Linguistics Fall Colloquium Series | 30 March 2023

Linguistic Justice

Vol.40 Virginia Tech "Digging in The Crates" Seminar Series & Virginia Tech Black Cultural Center Black History Month 2023 Lunch & Learn Speaker Series

08 February 2023 

Linguistic Oppression & Sociolinguistic Labor

University of Jyväskylä, Finland 

27 January 2023 

Words of the Year 2022 with Ben Zimmer and Kelly Wright

Planet Word Museum DC

12 January 2023 

That Word Chat

Episode 59: Words of The Year 2022

10 January 2023 

2022 Word of the Year Noms Reports

American Dialect Society Annual Meeting

06 January 2023

Future Multilingual

16 December 2022 

That Word Chat

Episode 56: Kelly Wright

6 September 2022 

Race-based Linguistic Discrimination​

Izabelle Grenon's Intermediate English Course

The University of Tokyo

27 June 2022 

Institutionalized Anti-Black Linguistic Discrimination​

Lansdowne Visiting Scholar Public Lecture

University of Victoria

24 January 2022 

Global News â€‹

'Delatcron' danger: Name of presumed hybrid fuels panic, experts say 

Oxford English Dictionary Advisors Panel member​

Language prejudice and the documentation of minoritized varieties of English event

Linguistic Discrimination: Race, Racism, & Racialization​

West Chester University Fall Invited Speaker Event

Identity Perception and its Racialized Outcomes​

Autumn Speaker Series  - Talking About Race and Racism Université de Lausanne

Raciolinguistic Ideologies as Institutionalized Racism​

University of California at Berkeley | 18 October 2021

"You Have to be Better": Confronting Linguistic Inequities with Experimental Sociolinguistics​

University of Arizona Department of Linguistics

Raciolinguistics: A Community Conversation​

Ramapo, NJ Wednesday Night Community Zoom

Race and Language: Considering Black Linguistic Experiences​

Chicago Linguistics Society 2021

Presentation slides and audio recording linked

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Video of practice session below

Linguistic Inequities: An Audit Study of Three American Dialects in the Housing Market 

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Linguistic Society of American Annual Meeting 2021

I am the second talk in this session, at approximately 29 minutes

Unpacking and Confronting Linguistic Racism

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North Dakota Ethics Institute | Learning the Language of Diversity and Meaningful Inclusion Program

Idaho Humanities Council | Boise State Language, Race, and Ethnicity Speaker Series

“Linguistic Profiling: Voice-Based Discrimination and Inequities in the Housing Market” (Please email me for access to video)

Language and Race

Guest lecture for Dr. Samantha Litty of European University Flensburg | Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

Kelly E. Wright and Rachel Elizabeth Weissler @ VLTx

Discussing our co-authored paper Craft, Wright, Weissler, and Queen (2020) "Language and Discrimination: Generating Meaning, Perceiving Identities, and Discriminating Outcomes" with hosts Katie Carmichael and Abby Walker at Virginia

Virginia Tech | 20 Oct. 2020

LSA Webinar: How to be a Linguist on Social Media

Linguistic Society of America | 16 Oct. 2020

Mini Lecture: How does a Bad Word become Bad?​

For Dr. Rob Podesva at Stanford University | 06 Sept. 2020

Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Justice in the Writing Classroom

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Presentation at Fordham University | Hosted by Annalise Wolf | 24 Sept. 2020

Linguistic Profiling: Passing for American Means Speaking Without an Accent

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Inspirational Speaker Series | University of Kent

Linguistic Discrimination

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A guest lecture for professor Nicholas Henricksen at the University of Michigan 

Slurs

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A guest lecture for professor Savithry Namboodiripad at the University of Michigan

Actors and Events: Racialized Semantic Intensity Over Time

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A presentation at the third annual NARNiHS @ the KFLC Conference

Gender, Race, and Class

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A guest lecture for professor Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson at Appalachian State University (Please email me for access to video)

Qualifying Research Report

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A presentation in partial fulfillment of advancement to Candidacy

Inclusivity Pressures

Text of speech and slides from presentation linked

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Presented as part of Black Becoming, a panel at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting 2020

Our Ears Are as Prejudiced as Our Eyes

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A presentation on linguistic profiling for UMich Recruitment 2019

Measuring Change in Real and Apparent Time

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A guest lecture for Dr. Ariana Bancu at Northeastern University

Lexical Racialization Examined Through Machine Learning

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Presented as part of the Information Analysis and Retrieval Winter Seminar Series (2019)

Lexical Racialization Examined Through Machine Learning

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A poster presented at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference in NYC, October 2019

Measuring Implicit Biases Through the Statistical Properties of Language 

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A pecha kucha presentation for the Historical Sociolinguistics Network, July 2019

Linguistic Discrimination

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A guest lecture for Dr. Israel Sanz-Sanchez at Westchester University

Mellon Fellowship in Publicly-Engaged Humanities

21 June 2019 Ann Arbor District Library

HistLing 

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A Report from the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics

New Ways of Analyzing Variation 2018

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Lexical Racialization Revealed through Machine Learning

Opportunity Hub Celebrate Workshop

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A workshop on natural discrimination (categorical perception) and offensive discrimination in the workplace.

Chicago Linguistics Society 2018

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You will find linked a poster and a presentation of this material.

Normed Speech Samples: 

http://phonetics.as.uky.edu/sounds/baugh/Southern.wav

http://phonetics.as.uky.edu/sounds/baugh/AAVE.wav

http://phonetics.as.uky.edu/sounds/baugh/SE.wav

Five Minute Linguist LSA 2018

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Five Minute Linguist is a live, judged competition for scientists to communicate their research to a general audience. I encourage watching the entire video, but my presentation begins right around the 30 min mark.

Linguistic Society of America 2018

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Eye Tracking for Change: Investigating Institutionalized Racism through the Semantic Enregisterment of Racialized Adjectives

National Council for Black Studies 2018

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Covert Segregation: Dialect Discrimination in the Housing Market

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