*Dr. Peggy Mohan visited the Department on the April 12th and 13th. She delivered two lectures, one based on her book “Father Tongue, Mother Land” and the other based on her upcoming book about the future of Indian languages in the era of LLM. The lectures were attended by a large crowd (online and offline) and we were excited to once again welcome back Peggy, our Department’s dear friend!

*Prof. Veneeta Dayal, Yale University was in the Department on the 17th of July, 2024 for an interaction with the students.  She discussed with us her super-interesting on-going work on cross-linguistic patterns of Number semantics and we had a nice Q-and-A session with her.

*The Department celebrated the 74th Republic Day of India on the 26th of January, 2024 by organizing an online presentation-discussion on “The Constituent Assembly Debates on Language”. Ms Niveditha, our alumna, presented the debates and Dr Avinash Pandey was the discussant. The session offered interesting insights into the language question in India as it was debated, resolved and finally reflected in the Indian Constitution.

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