Events
Featured Events
7th Annual Emory Undergraduate Linguistics Conference
Date: April 17th, 2026 (One-day virtual event)
Link to virtual location (tba)
Submit abstracts to EasyAbs starting January 4, 2026
Submission deadline: March 20, 2026
Abstract review period: March 21 - 29, 2026
If you have questions, please email: eulc@emory.edu or visit the EULC website
"Talking Black in America"
Film Screening/Q&A with Dr. Erica BrittThursday, February 26th 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM White Hall 206 
A Conversation with Brian Goldstone
Author of There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America.
Date: Thursday, February 12, 2026
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Location: PAIS 290 Math & Science Bldg, Room E208
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/lingregister
Download event flyerJoin us for an engaging discussion covering:
- Atlanta's working homeless
- Inequality in America
- Journalism, narrative & storytelling
- Ethnography
- Language
**Book signing and Reception to follow in PAIS, 2nd floor lobby (outside of Room 290).
Hosted by the Emory Program in Linguistics, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Global Development Studies Program, Institute for the Liberal Arts, Hightower Fund, and Writing Across Emory.
Brian Goldstone is a journalist and the author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and named one of the 10 Best Books of 2025 by The New York Times and The Atlantic. His longform reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic, The California Sunday Magazine, and Jacobin, among other publications. He received his PhD in cultural anthropology from Duke University and was a Mellon Research Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. He lives in Atlanta with his family.