{"id":18363,"date":"2026-10-26T06:10:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/?p=18363"},"modified":"2026-10-31T10:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:15:02","slug":"mit-algonquian-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2026\/10\/26\/mit-algonquian-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT @ Algonquian Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIT Linguistics was well represented at the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/algonquianstudies.org\/algonquian-conference\/\">Algonquian Conference<\/a>, held at Memorial University of Newfoundland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.linkedin.com\/in\/elora-cromarty-3a7667294\"><strong>Elora Cromarty<\/strong><\/a> (current student in the MITILI program), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petergrishin.com\"><strong>Peter Grishin<\/strong><\/a> (&#8216;23, postdoc &#8216;23-&#8216;25), <a href=\"https:\/\/esbnewman.github.io\"><strong>Elise Newman<\/strong><\/a> (&#8216;21, current faculty), <a href=\"https:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/norvin\/\"><strong>Norvin Richards<\/strong><\/a> (&#8216;97, faculty), and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.mit.edu\/jcrobert\/\"><strong>Cooper Roberts<\/strong><\/a> (current student in the doctoral program) all presented at the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Elora gave a poster, and participated in a co-authored talk (with Joel Jansen, Grace Yang, and Antti Arppe), on her work with Swampy Cree \u2013 and also participated in a keynote panel discussion on &#8220;Youth in Leadership&#8221;. The other MIT-related participants presented their work with Passamaquoddy-Wolastoqey. Peter and Elise co-presented both a paper and a poster, and Norvin and Cooper each gave talks.<\/p>\n<p>Norvin Richards writes: \u201cThe conference was both inspiring and educational, and we&#8217;re looking forward to putting what we&#8217;ve learned into practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conference program: <a href=\"https:\/\/algonquianstudies.org\/ac58-program\/\">https:\/\/algonquianstudies.org\/ac58-program\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Conference photos: two columns --><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(2, minmax(0, 1fr)); gap: 12px; max-width: 612px; margin: 24px auto; clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/858982927_1562276119035008_1490441402048859282_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18366\" style=\"display: block; width: 300px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; aspect-ratio: 4 \/ 3; object-fit: cover; margin: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/858982927_1562276119035008_1490441402048859282_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"MIT Linguistics at the Algonquian Conference\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/858982927_1562276119035008_1490441402048859282_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/858982927_1562276119035008_1490441402048859282_n-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/858982927_1562276119035008_1490441402048859282_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/858982927_1562276119035008_1490441402048859282_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/858982927_1562276119035008_1490441402048859282_n.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/861996303_1562276385701648_3321690693961252452_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18367\" style=\"display: block; 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width: 300px; max-width: 100%; height: auto; aspect-ratio: 4 \/ 3; object-fit: cover; margin: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/861996532_1562276669034953_6128882290706132246_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"MIT Linguistics at the Algonquian Conference\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/861996532_1562276669034953_6128882290706132246_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/861996532_1562276669034953_6128882290706132246_n-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/861996532_1562276669034953_6128882290706132246_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/861996532_1562276669034953_6128882290706132246_n-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/861996532_1562276669034953_6128882290706132246_n.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/864303195_1562276922368261_5692667123148145375_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18369\" style=\"display: block; 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Elora Cromarty (current student in the MITILI program), Peter Grishin (&#8216;23, postdoc &#8216;23-&#8216;25), Elise Newman (&#8216;21, current faculty), Norvin Richards (&#8216;97, faculty), and Cooper Roberts (current student in the doctoral program) all presented at the conference. Elora gave a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363","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=18363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18370,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18363\/revisions\/18370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}