Recent presentations
For earlier presentations, refer to the past presentations page.
2027. Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Title TBD. Invited talk at 6th Workshop on Sound Change, Seeon, Germany. October 8-11.
2026. Sneller, Betsy and Suzanne Evans Wagner. Behind the Work: MI Diaries. Invited talk, Center for Public and Applied Humanities, Michigan State University. October 2.
2026. Ayiega, Mofart and Suzanne Evans Wagner. Morphological leveling and cues to animacy in Nairobi Swahili subject-verb agreement. International Conference on Bantu Languages 11, University of Ghent, Belgium, August 18-21.
2026. Wagner, Suzanne Evans, Josh Herrin, Karthik Durvasula, Cherilyn Wang, and Connor Bechler. Better career preparation through an alumni and science communication event. Georgetown University Roundtable on Linguistics (GURT), March 6-8.
2026. Ayiega, Mofart and Suzanne Evans Wagner. Morphological leveling of noun class agreement in urban Swahili. Paper presented at Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, New Orleans, January 8-11.
2025. Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Adjectival intensification in Michigan English. Invited talk at University of Duisburg-Essen, November 21.
2025. Kirk, Annan and Suzanne Evans Wagner. Generational variation in intensifiers in Michigan English. Poster at International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) 8, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 1-4.
2025. Wagner, Suzanne Evans, Betsy Sneller, and Jack Rechsteiner. Branding your research. Poster at LingComm 25 (International Conference on Linguistics Communication), online, April 7-10.
2025. Sneller, Betsy, and Suzanne Evans Wagner. “Small stories” as longitudinal oral history: MI Diaries. Panel presentation in ‘Using oral histories for sociolinguistic research’, Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, Philadelphia, January 9-12.
2023. Sneller, Betsy, Suzanne Evans Wagner, Adam Barnhardt,Jack Rechsteiner, Yongqing Ye, and Caroline Zackerman. It’s not the THOUGHT that counts for a LOT of Michigan English sound changes. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 51, Queens College, CUNY, October 13-15.
2023. Wagner, Suzanne Evans, Betsy Sneller and Jack Rechsteiner. Sociolinguistic research projects as brands. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 51, Queens College, CUNY, NY, October 13-15.
2023. Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Engaging the public for participation in linguistics research projects. Invited talk at LinguisTisch, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, May 17.
2022. Wagner, Suzanne Evans, Betsy Sneller, and Jack Rechsteiner. Longitudinal sociolinguistic research projects as brands. Methods in Dialectology XVII, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany, August 1-5, 2022. Watch the video!
2022. Sneller, Betsy and Suzanne Evans Wagner. MI Diaries: Starting a community-engaged DH Project during a global pandemic. Global Digital Humanities Symposium, Michigan State University, March 23-25.
2022. Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Self-recorded audio diaries as a source of data across the lifespan. Invited plenary talk at Corpora for Language and Aging Research (CLARe), University of Alaska, March 9-11.
2021. Sneller, Betsy and Suzanne Evans Wagner. Challenges and opportunities for longitudinal data collection using self-recordings. Invited talk at the Sociolinguistics Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, November 9.
2021. Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Post-adolescent language change in corpora large and small. Invited talk at Morphosyntactic Variation and Change in the Twenty-First Century (MVC21), University of Cambridge, UK, March 17-18. (Rescheduled from May 27-29, 2020).
2021. Sneller, Betsy, and Suzanne Evans Wagner. MI Diaries.. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America annual meeting, organized session on “Sociolinguistic research in the time of COVID: Methods, ethics, theory” (organizer: Betsy Sneller). San Francisco, January 7-10.
2020. Sneller, Betsy, and Suzanne Evans Wagner. MI Diaries: Tracking language change during a pandemic. Invited talk at University of Michigan Linguistics colloquium, November 6. (Rescheduled from March, 2020).
2020. Sneller, Betsy, and Suzanne Evans Wagner. MI-COVID Diaries: Starting a new remote project…fast. Invited talk at MSU College of Arts and Letters workshop, How to Pivot Your Research During COVID-19. August 19.