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 ​
'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
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