{"id":4133,"date":"2026-04-04T16:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:37:25","slug":"dr-ryan-walter-smith-gives-invited-talk-on-memory-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/dr-ryan-walter-smith-gives-invited-talk-on-memory-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ryan Walter Smith Gives Invited Talk on Memory Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of March, Professor Ryan Walter Smith gave an invited talk at Memory &amp; Language 2: Simulationist and Causalist Approaches to Reference in Remembering, a conference for philosophers of memory and semanticists working on memory in natural language.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4134\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4134 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/04\/smith-memory-talk-pic-Ryan-S-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/04\/smith-memory-talk-pic-Ryan-S-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/04\/smith-memory-talk-pic-Ryan-S-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/04\/smith-memory-talk-pic-Ryan-S-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/04\/smith-memory-talk-pic-Ryan-S-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/04\/smith-memory-talk-pic-Ryan-S.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Ryan Walter Smith presenting at Memory &amp; Language 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This year, the conference was held at the Universit\u00e9 Grenoble Alpes (see the conference poster below) and his invited talk was titled <em>&#8220;Memory reports as state descriptions: a view from the Iranian languages.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4136\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4136 \" src=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/04\/2026-language-poster-Ryan-S-212x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/04\/2026-language-poster-Ryan-S-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2026\/04\/2026-language-poster-Ryan-S.png 707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conference poster for Memory &amp; Language 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of March, Professor Ryan Walter Smith gave an invited talk at Memory &amp; Language 2: Simulationist and Causalist Approaches to Reference in Remembering, a conference for philosophers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/dr-ryan-walter-smith-gives-invited-talk-on-memory-reports\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,54,56,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-faculty","category-invited-talk","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - 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