Audio Visual Materials & Webinar Resources
The LSA has a diverse array of professional development and scholarly resources available via recorded programming at our Annual Meeting Sessions, Linguistic Institute Workshops and Lectures, and Webinars produced in collaboration with LSA Committees and Special Interest Groups (SIGs), including the Linguistics Beyond Academia SIG. Below you can find a list of audio-visual content.
Quick Links
LSA 2021 Annual Meeting YouTube Playlist
LSA 2020 Annual Meeting YouTube Playlist
You can find many of these and other LSA recordings on the LSA YouTube Channel, which is the new home of the LSA Video Archive, featuring short videos created by LSA members on topics of general interest concerning language. We hope that these videos will meet the interests of language enthusiasts, spark the interest of others, provide topics and projects for classroom use, and show the many ways in which the work of linguists can contribute to industry, education, and other human concerns. Be sure to check back for updated content!
Annual Meeting Sessions
2021 Annual Meeting (Virtual):
- LSA 2021 Programming
- LSA 2021 Presidential Address: Marriane Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- LSA 2021 Awards Ceremony
- LSA 2021 Student Panel: Resources for Students During a Pandemic
- Symposium: Teaching Ethics Across the Linguistics Curriculum
- Symposium: Careers for Linguists/ Linguists for Careers by Industry/ Sector
- Symposium and Poster Session: Scholarly Teaching in the Age of COVID and Beyond
- Scholarly Teaching
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Historical and Sociolinguistics
- Historical Linguistics I: Grammaticalization (Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3)
- Historical Linguistics II
- Historical Linguistics III: Sound Change
- Sociolinguistics I
- Sociolinguistics II
- Sociolinguistics III
- Sociolinguistics IV
- Typology and Morphology
- Language Acquisition
- Language and Mind
2020 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA:
- LSA 2020 Annual Meeting: Welcome, Land Acknowledgment & Annual Report of Major Accomplishments
- LSA 2020 Annual Meeting: Student Panel Preparing to Change Roles
- LSA Invited Plenary Talk Anne Charity Hudley
- LSA Invited Plenary Talk Shelome Gooden
- LSA Invited Plenary Address: Jessie Little Doe Baird
- LSA 2020 Annual Meeting Presidential Address: Brian Joseph
- The Five-Minute Linguist 2020
- The Intellectual Merit of Language Documentation
2019 Annual Meeting in New York City, NY:
- LSA 2019 Annual Meeting YouTube Playlist
- Executive Director's Annual Report - Alyson Reed, Executive Director
- Invited Plenary Address - Dr. Diane Lillo-Martin discusses the simultaneous production of two languages, a signed language and an oral language
- LSA Award Ceremony - 93rd Annual Meeting
- 5-Minute Linguist (video)
2018 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT:
- LSA Award Ceremony - 92nd Annual Meeting
- 5-Minute Linguist (video)
2017 Annual Meeting in Austin, TX:
- Invited Plenary Address, Colleen Fitzgerald (University of Texas at Arlington). "The Sounds of Indigenous Language Revitalization"
- Workshop on Building Capacity in Linguistics and Endangered Languages at Tribal Colleges and Universities, January 5, 2017
- Plenary Contest Event, "The Five Minute Linguist"
- Dialectology in a Multilingual North America, Robert Bayley (University of California Davis) (PDF)
- LSA Public Lectures, John McWhorter (Columbia). "Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Stand Still (Like, Literally)"
- LSA Public Lectures on Language, Ben Zimmer. "Traveling Among the New Words: Lexical Adventures in the Digital Age."
2016 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC:
- CELP Panel on Documenting Variation in Endangered Languages.
- Student Panel on presenting your research in different contexts: Keren Rice (University of Toronto), Presenting your research: Academic job applications, interviews, and talks; Janet Randall (Northeastern University): Research, 3 Ways; Jennifer Renn (Center for Applied Linguistics): Linguistics in interdisciplinary research: Providing a unique perspective
- Presidential Address: John R. Rickford (Stanford University): Language (and Linguistics) on Trial: Hearing Vernacular Speakers in Courtrooms and Beyond. Handout (PDF) - Video - Storify summary of Twitter activity during the address
- Photographs from the Presidential Address, Awards Ceremony, Induction of LSA Fellows, Paul Chapin Tribute Session, and Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
- Storify summary of Twitter activity (#LSA2016) during the meeting
2015 Annual Meeting in Portland, OR:
- Video of the Panel on Careers for Linguists in Industry
- Materials from the Special Organized Session on the Publishing Process
2014 Annual Meeting in Minneappolis, MN:
Linguistic Summer Institutes
2017 Linguistic Summer Institute at the University of Kentucky, Lexington:
Public Lectures (Video content)
- "Pluralia tantum nouns and the theory of features: A typology of nouns with noncanonical number properties" (Greville Corbett, public workshop)
- "Lexical and grammatical factors in sound change: A usage-based approach" (Joan Bybee; Collitz public lecture)
- "The expressive side of language" (Penelope Eckert; Sapir lecture)
- "The subtlety of fieldwork: Answering the questions you are not asking" (Lenore Grenoble; Hale lecture)
- "Prosodic entrainment across cultures" (Julia Hirschberg; Fillmore lecture)
- "July 4, July 14, November 18, July 14... Revolutions across space and time" (Michel DeGraff; public lecture)
- "Appalachian Englishes in the 21st century" (Kirk Hazen; public lecture)
- "When a linguist talks to a dog" (Robin Queen; public lecture)
2015 Linguistic Summer Institute at the University of Chicago:
Workshops and Lectures (Video content)
- "Professional Paths for Linguists: Preparing For What's Next" (Anna Marie Trester and Anastasia Nylund; workshop)
- "Extracting social meaning from language" (Dan Jurafsky; Fillmore Lecture)
- "The 'genius' of the language" (Tony Woodbury; Hale Lecture)
Presentation Slides and Materials
- Building a web presence presented by Colin Phillips
- Imposter syndrome presented by Penny Eckert & Monica Macaulay
- Getting published (PDF) presented by Keren Rice
- CV Design presented by Beth Levin (LSA member log-in required)
- Linguistic Institute Workshops and Lectures (2015)
2013 Linguistic Summer Institute at the University of Michigan (Video content):
- "What is language and why does it matter?" (Noam Chomsky; Forum lecture)
- "Fieldwork and community: Aspects of variation and change" (Kere Rice and Ken Hale)
- "Grammar of Happiness" (Daniel Everett; Q&A)
- "Linguistics and community engagement: Keeping it real" (Anne Charity Hudley)
- "Contributions from endangered language documentation" (Lyle Campbell)
- "Monolingual Fieldwork" (Daniel Everett; Demonstration)
Webinars (Video content):
- Webinar: "Meet the Authors": Tenure, promotion, and academic review in documentary linguistics (2022)
- Webinar: “Meet the Authors": An emerging SELF: the Copula Cycle in American Sign Language (2022)
- Webinar: “Meet the Author”: Experimental evidence for expectation-driven linguistic convergence (2022)
- Webinar: How usable are digital collections for endangered languages? A review. (2022)
- Webinar: On Impure Linguistics for Self-Purification and Direct Action (2022)
- Webinar: Gender Bias & Stereotypes in Linguistics Research and Teaching (2022)
- Webinar: The LSA Statement Against Linguistic Misgendering: Review and Practical Applications (2021)
- Webinar: Reconstructing the Evolution of Proto-Indoeuropean Grammar (2021)
- Webinar: Publishing in the Language and Public Policy Section of Language (2021)
- Webinar: Language Revitalization and Documentation, the Newest Section of the LSA's Flagship Journal (2021)
- "Meet the Authors" Webinar: Toward Racial Justice in Linguistics: Interdisciplinary Insights into Theorizing Race in the Discipline and Diversifying the Profession (2021)
- Webinar: Being a Linguist on Social Media (2020)
- Webinar: Peer Review (2020)
- Webinar: New Solicitation for NSF DLI-DEL Senior Research and Conference Grant Proposals (2020)
- Webinar: This IS Linguistics: Scope, Positionality, and Graduate Apprenticeship when Diversifying the Linguistics Curriculum (2020)
- Webinar: Creating More Just and Inclusive Learning Experiences (2020)
- Webinar: Centering Linguistic Diversity and Justice in Course Design (2020)
- Webinar: Inside the LSA's Subtitle Podcast (2020)
- Webinar: Mastering the Art of the Linguistics Podcast (2020)
- Webinar: Meet the Authors - Revisiting phonetic integration in bilingual borrowing (2020)
- Webinar: Linguistics in the News: How to Own It! (2019)
- Webinar: Aligning Linguistic Research Incentives and Open Scholarship (2019)
- Webinar: The Writing Process (2019)
- Webinar: Open Access Primer (2019)
- Webinar: PennController for IBEX: A New Platform for Online Experiment Design (2019)
- Webinar: How to Submit an Abstract for the LSA Annual Meeting (2019)
- Webinar: Linguists and Linguistics in Tech (2019)
- Webinar: LGBTQ+ Perspectives in Linguistics (2019)
- Webinar: How to Be a Successful Grad Student (2018)
- Webinar: Communicating the Value of NSF to Elected Officials, by the CNSF (2018)
- Applying for NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (2018)
- Webinar: Linguistics in the Public Sphere (2018)
- Webinar: Best Practices for Sharing Your Work (2018)
- Webinar: Abstract Writing: How to Convince in a Page (2018)
- Webinar: Working in Tech -- It's Not Just for Computational Linguists (2018)
- Navigating Careers in the Linguistics Field (2017)
- LSA Public Lectures 2017 John McWhorter (2017)
- Applying for an NSF Graduate Fellow Grant (2017)
- COSSA's Social Science and the Age of Trump (2017)
- Enterprising Linguists: Careers Outside the Classroom (2016)
- The Job Recruitment Process from the Other Side of the Table (2016)
- Linguistic Entrepreneurship (2016)
- Linguistics Beyond Academia (2015)
- Linguistics and Human Rights (2015)
ASL interpretation will be provided for LSA webinars if at least two week’s advance notice is provided. This notice is required in order to secure the services of qualified interpreters. If less advance notice is provided, the LSA will attempt to secure interpreters but cannot guarantee availability. Provide advance notice by contacting the LSA.
If you have an idea for a future webinar and would like to work with the LSA or Committee/SIG to produce it, please contact us.
Other Resources
- A list of Podcasts on Linguistics and Language