The Center for Language Sciences at the University of Rochester is proud to announce the inaugural annual Ivan A. Sag Lectures. The lectures are free and open to the public. 

The Sag Lectures commemorate the late Professor Ivan A. Sag, a University of Rochester alumnus who was one of the foremost language scientists, cognitive scientists, and linguists of his time.

The Sag Lectures are associated with the annual Sag Fellowship, a visiting fellowship that brings a leader in the language sciences to Rochester for an extended visit. The Sag Fellowship is also sponsored by the Center for Language Sciences.

The 2023 Sag Fellow is Professor John Beavers. Professor Beavers is Chair of the Department of Linguistics and the Robert D. King Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin.

Professor Beavers will explore the topic of lexical semantics, in a series of lectures titled Some Concepts and Consequences of a Theory of Word Meaning.