The Freeman lectures honor department founder Donald C. Freeman and his wife Margaret H. Freeman and their contributions to linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Previous Speakers
2021: Emily Brewster "The Dictionary, the Definer, and How the Internet Has Changed Them Both" (Video and transcript)
2019: Fernanda Ferreira "Getting a Head in Language Processing"
2017: John R. Rickford "Justice for Jeantel (and Trayvon): FIghting Dialect Prejudice in Courtrooms and Beyond" Watch the Freeman Lecture presented by John Rickford.
2016: Raffaella Zanuttini "Discovering Grammatical Diversity in American English"
2015: Michel DeGraff "Kreyòl pale, kreyòl konprann: Power/Knowledge at the Crossroads of History, Linguistics & Education in Haiti"
2010: Didier Demolin "the Evolution of Speech and Language"
2008: Larry Solan "Law, Language, & the Modular Mind"
2007: Geoff Nunberg "What Words Can Teach"
2005: Noam Chomsky "Biolinguistic explorations: Design Development, Evolution"
2004: Marc Hauser "Evolving a Linguistic Mind: From Grunts to Shakespeare"
2003: Steven Pinker