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Upcoming Events

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'Teaching, mapping, and understanding the sounds of language' online flash talks

July 28, 2020
Online
Online, BC
Canada

RSVP Join us for our second online Language Sciences flash talks: three five minute talks using only one slide by three of our members from different research themes. Then, introduce yourself in seven words or less, ask the speakers any questions you might have and discuss your work with other...
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Movie Night and Q&A: Remembering Inninimowin, director Jules Arita Koostachin

August 27, 2020
Online
Online, BC
Canada

RSVP Join the Language Sciences Movie Night on August 27th from 5pm (PDT) for a virtual screening of Remembering Inninimowin, followed by an onlie Q&A with director Jules Arita Koostachin. Remembering Inninimowin is a two-year long documentary film project on the personal journey of a Cree...
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Language Science Talks: 'Comparing Classifier Constructions in ASL and Navajo', Dr. Corrine Occhino and Jalon Begay (rescheduled)

September 15, 2020
TBC
Vancouver, BC
Canada

RSVP This event has been rescheduled from 2019. ASL interpreters will be present for this event. Join us as Dr. Corrine Occhino, Research Assistant Professor at the Center on Cogniton and Language, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Jalon Begay, PhD student in the Department of Linguistics,...
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Language Science Talks: ‘Talking Genetics with Robinson Crusoe’, Dr. Dianne Newbury with intro by President Santa Ono (Rescheduled)

January 15, 2021
TBC
Vancouver, BC
Canada

RSVP Co-hosted with the Social Exposome Research Cluster President Santa Ono, who discovered the NFX1 gene, of which NFXL1 is a paralogue, will introduce Dr. Newbury. Abstract: UNICEF, UNESCO and the World Health Organization include communication in their core life skills. Deficits in...
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Language Science Talks: Dr. Edward Chang, Toward a speech neuroprosthetic (Rescheduled)

April 9, 2021
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Room 101, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
2215 Wesbrook Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

RSVP This talk has been rescheduled from March 2020. Abstract: Speaking is a unique and defining human behavior. Over the past decade, we have focused on deciphering the basic neural code that underlies our ability to speak fluently. During speech production, vocal tract movement gestures for all...