Past Events

Education, Technology and Development: Perspectives from Nepal

An afternoon of engaging panel presentations and discussions with guest speaker Rabi Karmacharya, Founder & CEO of the Open Learning Exchange, Nepal. Technological innovations have revolutionized the ways we communicate, exchange knowledge and ideas, and deliver goods and services. However,…

Quality Education and the Role of Digital Technology in Nepal

Please join us for Quality Education and the Role of Digital Technology in Nepal, a talk by Rabi Karmacharya, a social entrepreneur who helped launch OLE Nepal with the vision to use technology to improve the quality of primary education in Nepal’s public schools, and to…

Early experience and the brain: how environmental and neural variation can inform our understanding of neurodevelopment in infancy and beyond

UBC Psychology welcomes Dr. Lara Pierce for an invited talk titled Early experience and the brain: how environmental and neural variation can inform our understanding of neurodevelopment in infancy and beyond. Abstract Experience-dependent learning shapes the neural foundations that…

Grad Student & Postdoc Social

The Uniformitarian Hypothesis and prehistoric sociolinguistics: what were stone-age languages like?

Please join us for The Uniformitarian Hypothesis and prehistoric sociolinguistics: what were stone-age languages like?, a talk by Dr. Peter Trudgill, Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at Fribourg University and Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of East…

Linguistics Research Seminar - Noureddine Elouazizi

Noureddine Elouazizi (UBC Science, Strategist & Learning Technologies Team Lead) will be presenting Integration of Formal Syntax and Natural Language Processing Methods to Create AI-informed Learning Technologies for (Science) Education.

Dr. Josee Lagace (SASS Lunchtime Colloquium)

Linguistics Research Seminar - Panel Discussion

Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Julian Brooke, Kathleen Hall, & Márton Sóskuthy (UBC, Linguistics) will be discussing Integrating Computational Linguistics Into Linguistics.

Dr. Luisa Maffi, Language, Culture, and the Environment: Thinking Out of the Silos

Please join us as we welcome Dr. Luisa Maffi, co-founder and Director of Terralingua for her talk Language, Culture, and the Environment: Thinking Out of the Silos. For over two decades, Maffi has spearheaded the efforts of Terralingua, the internal NGO that promotes&nbsp…

Linguistics Research Seminar

Johannes Heim (UBC, Linguistics) will be presenting Prosodic Correlates of Speaker Commitment and Addressee Engagement.