SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

“Speaking my Soul: Race, Life, and Language” – A Reading
An A.D. White Professors-at-Large keynote public event
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 at 4:30pm
132 Goldwin Smith Hall and via Zoom
Open to all.

Speaking my Soul is the honest story of John Rickford’s life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford, of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its speakers.

“NOT hearing African American Vernacular English, as shown by errors in the Automated Speech Recognition Systems (ASRs) used by Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM”
Linguistics Colloquium
Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 4:30pm
106 Morrill Hall
Open to Cornell community. Reception to follow outside room.

All events are cosponsored by the Dept. of Linguistics.

Abby Cohn (Professor, Dept. of Linguistics) serves as faculty host.