The GLOWing lecture series is a part of GLOW’s efforts of community-building, outreach, and strengthening of the generative community. The goal of GLOWing lectures is to provide tools, insights, and puzzles that will bring out why generative linguistics is important, invigorating, and relevant.
GLOWing lectures are intended to be exciting, inspiring, educational, and accessible across generative subfields. Each academic year comes with an umbrella topic of lectures:
2023/24: Discoveries in generative linguistics. These lectures provided significant discoveries and results from one subfield and teach professionals from other generative subfields important tools and technologies of one subfield. You can find all four recorded lectures HERE.
2024/25: How do we learn about language? These lectures presented different angles and perspectives of linguistic research, how different methodologies and foci guide our research, and how all of them are important for generative grammar and our understanding of natural language. You can find all four recorded lectures HERE.
2025/26: Linguistics and the world we live in. These lectures focus of the intersection of linguistics and broader topics in society, such as education, language-revitalization, language communities, and Large Language Models. You can find all upcoming lectures HERE.
From 2025 on, we will start a second stream of GLOWing lectures called Languages deserving more attention which will take place once a year (in May or June) and feature a specialist of one language (family), talking about how this language challenges or contributes to our models of generative grammar. You can find the upcoming lecture HERE.
MODALITIES
The GLOWing lectures are held via Zoom, recorded and later published on YouTube to give as many people as possible the opportunity to attend. The zoom link will be sent via e-mail to all GLOW members. The lectures are be open to anyone. If you are not a GLOW member but still would like to attend via Zoom, please sign up HERE so we can send you the Zoom link.
GLOWing lectures have a 120 minute slot, with a lecture between 45−60 minutes, 30 minutes for discussions, and a remaining time for chatting and socializing. Partial attendance will, of course, be encouraged as well.
For each speaker there will be a moderator from another subfield leading the discussion. This shall encourage the interdisciplinary character of the GLOWing lectures.