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CENES: Graduate Funding Workshop (Online)

August 19, 2020
Online
Online, BC
Canada
The poster of the film, which features a crouching woman with Cree writing on her forehead

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 online 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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Psychology: Online Colloquium with Dr. Tom Griffiths

September 17, 2020
Online
Online, BC
Canada
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Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Research Day

October 16, 2020
Online
Online, BC
Canada

RSVP Join us for the second Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Research Day, which will showcase the work of our graduate students and postdoctoral fellows across diverse fields. This year, the conference will be virtual - stay tuned for details! The theme for this Research Day is Encodings:...
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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...