We hope that your quarter is off to a good start! We will start our spring iteration of meetings on Wednesday, April 8 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh This week, we will have two conference practice talks. Ethan Friedland will give us a preview of his ASPA presentation...

PIES grad sem will meet on Wednesday, April 15 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh This week, we will have two ASPA practice talks. John Clayton will be doing a dry run of his presentation titled "Plakṣa(prā̆)sravaṇa & Fīcus Rūminālis: When Ritual Meets Geography". Joel Erickson will give us...

PIES grad sem will meet on Wednesday, April 15 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh This week, we will have two ASPA practice talks. John Clayton will be doing a dry run of his presentation titled "Plakṣa(prā̆)sravaṇa & Fīcus Rūminālis: When Ritual Meets Geography". Joel Erickson will give us...

PIES grad sem will meet for Week 4 on Wednesday, Apr. 22 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh This week, we will continue with practice talks for ASPA. Alex Roy will give us a preview of his talk titled "Borrowed Words on Native Syntax: Complex Predicates in Indo-Iranian Diachrony"....

PIES grad sem will meet for Week 4 on Wednesday, Apr. 22 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh This week, we will continue with practice talks for ASPA. Alex Roy will give us a preview of his talk titled "Borrowed Words on Native Syntax: Complex Predicates in Indo-Iranian Diachrony"....

PIES grad sem will meet for Week 5 on Wednesday, April 29 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh Aidan Ackerman will be giving a presentation titled "Between synchrony and diachrony: Fixed segmentism in Indo-Iranian". Elisa Migliaretti will be going through Schindler 1988 and eliciting some feedback on the article...

PIES grad sem will meet for Week 5 on Wednesday, April 29 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh Aidan Ackerman will be giving a presentation titled "Between synchrony and diachrony: Fixed segmentism in Indo-Iranian". Elisa Migliaretti will be going through Schindler 1988 and eliciting some feedback on the article...

We will be meeting for Week 6 on Wednesday, May 6 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh For week 6, we are very excited to have two talks: Donka Minkova will give a presentation titled "Pre-1500 onset cluster reduction in English: Competing modes of actuation". Nick Guymon will talk...

We will be meeting for Week 6 on Wednesday, May 6 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh For week 6, we are very excited to have two talks: Donka Minkova will give a presentation titled "Pre-1500 onset cluster reduction in English: Competing modes of actuation". Nick Guymon will talk...

PIES grad sem will meet for Week 9 on Wednesday, May 27 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh This week, our recent PIES alum Chengzhi Zhang will present some results from his dissertation in a talk titled "Root vocalism and stem pairing patterns in the Greek thematic aorist". As...

Our last grad sem meeting for this academic year (!) will take place on Wednesday, June 3 between 6–8pm in Dodd 248 and on Zoom at this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/rehanmuh This week, we are excited to hear from Tony Yates, who will be doing a dry-run of his ECIEC presentation titled "The Indo-European denominative statives in...