{"id":35,"date":"2011-01-04T12:58:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T11:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castlnews.wordpress.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2011-01-04T12:58:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T11:58:41","slug":"were-back-with-a-bang-peter-jurgecs-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/2011\/01\/04\/were-back-with-a-bang-peter-jurgecs-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re back with a bang: Peter Jurgec&#8217;s defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A happy new year to everybody. Here in Troms\u00f8, the new semester is starting to roll despite the darkness. Many exciting events and news are in the works, and here&#8217;s the first of them: on January 13th, <a href=\"http:\/\/rci.rutgers.edu\/~jurgec\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Jurgec<\/a>, interrupting his stay at Rutgers University, where he currently holds the position of a Visiting Professor, will defend his thesis entitled\u00a0<em>Feature Spreading 2.0: A Unified Theory of Assimilation<\/em>, preceded by a trial lecture, where he will tell the audience all there is to know about\u00a0<em>The interaction of tone and intonation in tone languages. <\/em>The committee includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zas.gwz-berlin.de\/mitarbeiter_downing.html?&amp;L=1\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Downing<\/a> of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zas.gwz-berlin.de\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Zentrum f\u00fcr Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft<\/a> <\/em>in Berlin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanoostendorp.nl\" target=\"_blank\">Marc van Oostendorp<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meertens.knaw.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meertens Instituut<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hum.leiden.edu\/lucl\" target=\"_blank\">Leiden University<\/a>, and our very own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hum.uit.no\/a\/kraemer\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Kr\u00e4mer<\/a>. Read the introduction to Peter&#8217;s dissertation <a href=\"http:\/\/rci.rutgers.edu\/~jurgec\/publications\/DissTitleContentsIntro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As is their wont, the local phonologists will also have a workshop to celebrate Peter&#8217;s defense. This will take place on the next day, January 14th, and the program includes local phonologists, the opponents and several other people closely associated with CASTL&#8217;s phonology team. Find the program <a href=\"http:\/\/castl.uit.no\/index.php?option=com_eventlist&amp;view=details&amp;id=171:the-pj-workshop\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A happy new year to everybody. Here in Troms\u00f8, the new semester is starting to roll despite the darkness. Many exciting events and news are in the works, and here&#8217;s the first of them: on January 13th, Peter Jurgec, interrupting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/2011\/01\/04\/were-back-with-a-bang-peter-jurgecs-defense\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-dissertations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/castl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}