20 semanticists at the NHC in North Carolina

The second segment of the 2015/16 SIAS Summer Institute (The Investigation of Linguistic Meaning: In the Armchair, in the Lab, and in the Field) met for two weeks in July at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. I co-directed the institute with Manfred Krifka from the Humboldt University in Berlin. This year, Lisa Matthewson and Jesse Snedeker joined us as experts for a few days. The SIAS Summer Institute brought together 20 postdoctoral researchers from Europe and the US to work together on interdisciplinary experimental or fieldwork projects. It was financed by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, and administrated by the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the National Humanities Center.

SIAS Summer Institutes (from NHC website): “The SIAS Summer Institutes are two-year research programs for young researchers and treat interdisciplinary topics. The goal of the Institutes is to sponsor joint interdisciplinary work by European and American researchers at an early stage of their career, thus fostering research networks and common activities. The idea is that cohort formation will, in the long run, contribute to close ties between research activities in Europe and the U.S. while simultaneously supporting the development of new fields of research.”