Conference Schedule

Tulane Conference on Linguistics (T-CoL) 2025

Saturday, March 15, 2025, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm 

Conference proceedings are on campus in Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center Room 205, or on Zoom

10am Welcome Remarks

Dr. Charles Mignot 

Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics, Tulane University

10:20am Impacts of (il)literacy on language revitalization: The Case of Haitian Creole in Cuba

Kendall Medford, Ph.D. Candidate, Tulane University

10:40am Variations in Pseudoglyphs Across the Lowlands of Mesoamerica

Natalie Summers, Ph.D. Student, Tulane University

11:00am The use of American school aids in Guyanese literacy instruction

Emma Kainz, Ph.D. Candidate, Tulane University

11:20am BREAK

11:40am Spanish in the Southern Louisiana Linguistic Landscape

Rafael Orozco, Professor of Linguistics and Spanish, Ty Donley, and Natalia Gallardo, Louisiana State University

12:05am Address formulae and power dynamics in Colonial Louisiana Spanish

Dr. Jeremy King, Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics, Louisiana State University

12:25pm Attitudes Towards Writing in an AI World

Dr. Mark Honegger, Professor of Linguistics,  University of Louisiana at Lafayette

12:50pm LUNCH

2:00pm The Lost Language of the Classic Mayan Inscriptions

Dr. Marc Zender, Associate Professor, Tulane University

2:25pm Washing, Eating, or Planting? The Classic Maya Sijoom “Months”

Rubén Morales Forte, Ph.D. Candidate, Tulane University

2:45pm A Sociolinguistic Study of Spanish Intensifiers across two Dialects

Rafael Orozco, Professor of Linguistics and Spanish, and William Morales, Honors Sophomore and Linguistic Researcher, Louisiana State University

3:05pm Mapping the bilingual vowel space: Tracking variation in Shreveport Spanish and English

Dr. Matthew Pollock, Interim Chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages; Abigail Boykin, Master’s Student; and Noah Moser, Master’s Student; Louisiana State University at Shreveport

3:30pm BREAK

3:50pm Keynote presentation: On This Earth Here: Mapping the Universe Across Time, Space, and Languages

Dr. Amy George, Senior Professor of Practice, Tulane University

4:35pm Closing remarks

T-CoL organizers

 T-CoL registration is free and open to the public.  

Register by March 13.