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Language Sciences Film Series
Movie Night and Q&A series
Join Language Sciences for a series of virtual movie nights, followed by a Q&A with a language expert.
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This event was co-hosted with the Designing for People cluster Tuesday 8th June 2021 Film screening/viewing: The film will be available for 48 hours from Friday 4th June at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) to Sunday 6th June at 6:00 p.m. (PDT). This film is also available at any time for current UBC students, faculty and staff via Criterion Q&A: 11:00 a.m. on June 8th (PDT) |
Ex Machina (2015) Certification: MPAA: Rated R for graphic nudity, language, sexual references and some violence Canada: PG (British Columbia) |
Dr. Murray Shanahan Scientific advisor on Ex Machina, author of book Embodiment and the Inner Life: Cognition and Consciousness in the Space of Possible Minds which helped inspire the film Intro by Drs. Joanna McGrenere and Dongwook Yoon |
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Friday 5th February 2021 Film screening/viewing: The film will be available from 2:00 p.m. Thursday 4th February to 2:00 p.m. Friday 5th February (PST) Q&A: 2:00 p.m. on February 5th (PST) |
Call Me Human (2020) |
Joséphine Bacon and Kim O’Bomsawin Innu poet and subject of Call Me Human. Director of Call Me Human Intro by Dr. Billy-Ray Belcourt |
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Thursday 26th November 2020 Film screening/viewing: 2:00 p.m. (PDT) Q&A: 4:00 p.m. (PDT) |
Arrival (2016) |
Drs. Jessica Coon, Morgan Sonderegger and Lisa Travis Professors of Linguistics, and consultants on the film Intro by Dr. Jennifer Abel and Elise McClay |
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Thursday 27th August 2020 Film screening/viewing: 5:00 p.m. (PDT) Q&A: 6:30 p.m. (PDT) |
Remembering Inninimowin (2010) |
Director of Remembering Inninimowin, doctoral student in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Intro by Dr. Dallas Hunt |
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| Thursday 2nd July 2020, 5:00 p.m. (PDT) | 'First Words', an episode of Babies (2020) |
University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Psychology, and Principal Investigator of the UWM Infant Learning Lab, interviewed in First Words Intro by Dr. Janet Werker |
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Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues
The world’s first feature documentary about constructed languages like Klingon, Dothraki, Na’vi, Esperanto and the people who make them.
UBC Language Sciences held two screenings of the film Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues and hosted a panel discussion with the film co-producers on October 29th and 30th 2018.
These screenings were held in Vancouver and Kelowna, with panelists Christine Schreyer, Language creator for Man of Steel and Alpha (University of British Columbia - Okanagan); David Peterson, Language creator for HBO's Game of Thrones and many others; Robyn Stewart, Klingon speaker, translator for Star Trek: Discovery (Vancouver screening only); and Marc Okrand, Language creator of Klingon (Kelowna screening only).
The production of Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues was supported by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council. Support for this screening is provided by the UBC Language Sciences Initiative through funds from the UBC Vice President Research + Innovation.