[From Jessica Coon:]
The time has come to start thinking about this year’s ECO5 Syntax Workshop. ECO5 is an informal, student-run workshop, where grad students from five East Coast linguistics programs (MIT, Harvard, UMass, UConn and Maryland) can share new work and work in progress. This year it will be held at UConn on Saturday March 8, 2008.
Talks are 20 minutes with 10 for questions, and there is room for three presentations from each school. If you are interested in presenting your work at UConn, please let me know. Again, it is an informal and friendly conference, and work in progress is more than welcome. Sign up for the three MIT slots will be on a first-come/first-serve basis, unless there is a lot of interest, in which case preference will be given to people who have not presented at ECO5 and who have less presenting experience generally. This is a great place to get some presentation experience.
Abstracts for the program will be due on March 1st, but they are asking for a preliminary list of presenters by Feb 15th. Once we have figured who will be going (you can also come along if you’re not presenting), we can arrange for car pools.