Over the next 10 months, we will blog about our organizing progress, our decision-making process, and all the other fun parts that go into organizing a conference of this size. Our hope is to create a stable resource that future organizers might draw on, but also give the community a sense of how our vision for the conference evolved over the course of planning the event.
What can you expect to hear about here? Well, well, we anticipate we’ll have lots to say about the process of
- Choosing a venue and a space
- Deciding on our special session topic
- Securing funding for CUNY
- Recruiting reviewers
- Reviewing abstracts and deciding on a program
- … and more!
Keep your eye on this space going forward. In the meantime, let’s introduce the team of CUNY web denizens behind the blog and twitter account:
Brian Dillon
Brian Dillon is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics department, and one of the faculty organizers of CUNY 2020, along with Adrian Staub, Lyn Frazier, and John Kingston.
Anissa Neal
Anissa Neal is a second year graduate student in the Linguistics department. She is interested in syntactic theory, psycholinguistics, the processing of filler-gap dependencies, and African American English. In her research she uses eye-tracking-while-reading and behavioral methods.
Jon Burnsky
Jon Burnsky is a third year graduate student in Psychological and Brain Sciences. He is interested in thematic role processing, lexical prediction, and the formatting of lexical representations. In his research he uses eye-tracking-while-reading, EEG/ERPs, and behavioral methods.
