Alex Goebel gave an invited colloquium at the University of Cologne. Alex’s talk was titled “Contrasting Additives: On Obligatoriness, Coherence and the QUD.” But he didn’t stop there! On July 9th he gave a talk at the Workshop on At-issueness, Scope, and Coherence in Cologne, entitled “Exploring the connection between QUDs and Discourse Structure”, and another talk on July 13th at the 2nd International Conference on Prominence in Language called “Pronouns at the right frontier: Discourse structure affects accessibility of final appositives.”