Calendar
The Language Machines Reading Group meets monthly online to discuss pre-circulated papers. To join, email languagemachinesnetwork@gmail.com.
Upcoming #
Click “+ Add to calendar” on any row below to download a calendar invite for that meeting (18:00–20:00 Vienna time). Join details are sent separately on the mailing list before each meeting.
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 19 October 2026 | Graham Jones (MIT) | AI and Education (The MIT Report) + Add to calendar |
| 16 November 2026 | Lucy Suchman (Lancaster) | What is language? + Add to calendar |
| 21 December 2026 | Haley Lepp (Stanford) | Populist Science: The collapse of peer review and rise of virality-based evaluation in AI research + Add to calendar |
| 18 January 2027 | Jason Litzenberg | Chapter from his forthcoming book The Language Singularity: Posthumanist Language Teaching in the Age of AI + Add to calendar |
| 15 February 2027 | TBA | TBA + Add to calendar |
| 15 March 2027 | TBA | TBA + Add to calendar |
| 19 April 2027 | Qi Hong (Toronto) | Automatic Speech Recognition and China’s Cold War Technopolitics, 1958–1991 + Add to calendar |
| 17 May 2027 (tentative — may move for Whit Monday) | TBA | TBA + Add to calendar |
| 12 June 2027 | TBA | TBA + Add to calendar |
Past Meetings #
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2026 | Austin Kozlowski (University of Chicago) | Computational structuralism |
| 15 June 2026 | Zion Mengesha and Sharese King | Synthetic Selves: Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Language of AI Personas |
| 18 May 2026 | Lisa Messeri | AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science |
| 20 April 2026 | Justine Zhang | LLMs and the logistics imaginary |
| 16 February 2026 | Spencer Kaplan | Artificial Agency / “You can just do things” |
| 19 January 2026 | Leif Weatherby | Talk on his book Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism |
| 15 December 2025 | Jack La Violette and Mikael Brunila | Metalanguage, ideology, and alienation in the age of generative AI |
| 24 November 2025 | Evan Donahue | Structuralism, Vector Spaces, and the Science of Meaning |
| 20 October 2025 | Janet Connor | Echoing Voices: LLMs and Public Opinion in Deliberative Democracy |
| 29 September 2025 | Joe Wilson | Entextualizing and purifying multilingual training data in an open-science project |
| 16 June 2025 | Anna & Noya | Beyond the Imitation Game: Human tests for machine models |
| 19 May 2025 | Raffaele Buono | Hylomorphic language models? Use, serendipity and openness in LLM-equipped robots |
| 21 April 2025 | Zachary | What is the Matrix?: Linguistic Tokens in Higher Dimensions from wafq Talismans to Machine Learning Algorithms |
| 17 March 2025 | Nils Klowait and Maria Erofeeva | Nonhuman Situational Enmeshment – How Participants Build Temporal Infrastructures for ChatGPT |
| 17 February 2025 | Ole Puetz | Co-text is all you need |
| January 2025 | Courtney Handman | The Chatbot’s Real Self |
| December 2024 | Webb Keane | Animals, Robots, Gods |
| November 2024 | Gabriella Chronis | NLP as Language Ideology |
| October 2024 | Paul Kockelman | Last Words |
| September 2024 | Michael Castelle | Contextualizing High-Dimensional Communication |