{"id":16683,"date":"2024-12-09T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16683"},"modified":"2024-12-29T14:11:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T19:11:28","slug":"honoring-irene-heim-celebrating-her-schock-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/12\/09\/honoring-irene-heim-celebrating-her-schock-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Irene Heim, celebrating her Rolf Schock Prize!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December 7, the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT organized a celebratory workshop<\/a> in honor of our colleague, semanticist Irene Heim<\/strong><\/a>, professor emerita of Linguistics \u0097 \u00a0on the occasion of her having been awarded the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize<\/a> (jointly with Hans Kamp<\/a>) which we reported earlier here<\/a>. \u00a0As we noted at the time, quoting the award description, the award is considered a kind of Nobel prize:<\/p>\n

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“The Rolf Schock Prize is unusual in that it rewards both logic and philosophy, mathematics, visual arts and music. The laureates are selected through a unique collaboration between three Swedish royal academies: the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The final decision is made by The Schock Foundation.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You can read more about Irene, her achievements, and the prize, in this article from MIT News: https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2024\/mit-linguist-irene-heim-shares-schock-prize-logic-philosophy-1016<\/a><\/p>\n

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The workshop program featured 5 talks by former students of Irene’s from linguistics and philosophy: \u00a0Mat Mandelkern (NYU philosophy), Luka Crnic (Hebrew University), Maribel Romero (Konstanz), Wataru Uegaki (Edinburgh), and Valentine Hacquard (Maryland). A poster session featured research by current and recent students Ido Benbaji & Omri Doron; Shrayana Haldar; Filipe Hisao Kobayashi & Enrico Flor, Paul Meisenbichler; and Adele Mortier-Henot \u0097 and by Elena Guerzoni, Furkan Dikmen, & Penka Stateva; Chris Kennedy, Bernard Schwarz & Luis Alonso Ovalle; and Tue Trinh, Itai Bassi, and Danny Fox. \u00a0<\/p>\n

At the workshop, Amir Anvari announced the creation of the Heim Archive<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong> a repository of Irene’s published papers and her equally famous unpublished notes and class materials. \u00a0<\/p>\n

More than 80 guests, including students of Irene’s, colleagues and friends from all over the world were able to come on short notice. \u00a0The event reflecting the broad and lasting impact of Irene’s research and teaching on the field. We are so extremely fortunate to count Irene as one of ours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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On December 7, the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT organized a celebratory workshop in honor of our colleague, semanticist Irene Heim, professor emerita of Linguistics \u0097 \u00a0on the occasion of her having been awarded the 2024 Rolf Schock Prize (jointly with Hans Kamp) which we reported earlier here. \u00a0As we noted at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16683"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16767,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16683\/revisions\/16767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}