Events

Check out Language Sciences events, related events from our partner departments, Schools and faculties, and add our public Google calendar here.

February 2020

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	Call for papers: Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics			iSchool colloquium: (De)colonial Spaces of Memory Activism	LSURC 2020
	Call for papers: Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics			iSchool colloquium: (De)colonial Spaces of Memory Activism
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			Putting Knowledge to Work 2020: MDS-CL Industry Showcase LLED event: Language and Literacy Learning Among Refugee Background Children and Youth in Canadian Classrooms	CISAR: Fourth Annual International Mother Language Day Celebration	Department of Linguistics Colloquium series: Dr. Roumyana Pancheva, 'Temporal interpretation without tense'	Undergraduate 3 Minute Thesis Competition Final: Paris Gappmayr
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	Call for Abstracts: Language Sciences Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Research Day CENES Department: German Film Screening, Styx	Vantage College Speaker Series: A hub for transformative teaching and learning	Leaping Into 2020: Member Event and Lunch	UBC 3 Minute Thesis competition Multidisciplinary Heat

Upcoming Events

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Call for Abstracts: Language Sciences Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Research Day

Abstract guidelines and submission link Hey graduate students and postdoctoral fellows: we want your abstracts! The Language Sciences 2020 Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Research Day will be held on May 15th at UBC Vancouver. We welcome submissions for presentations of research on any topic...

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RSVP (dietary requirements) Join Language Sciences for lunch and a leap into the new year! Every member is invited to attend, as well as anyone studying language in a scientific way, or working in language-related areas. Hear about Language Sciences' updates, including funding news and plans for...

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UBC 3 Minute Thesis competition Multidisciplinary Heat

February 27, 2020

Earth Sciences Building

2207 Main Mall

Vancouver, BC

Canada

UBC 3 Minute Thesis competition Multidisciplinary Heat

West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics 2020

March 6, 2020 to March 8, 2020

UBC Vancouver

Vancouver, BC

Canada

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Language Science Talks: Dr. Edward Chang, Toward a speech neuroprosthetic

March 13, 2020

Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Room 101, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health

2215 Wesbrook Mall

Vancouver, BC

Canada

RSVP 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 speech sounds are encoded by highly specialized...