View some of our and others' previous events.
Past Events
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May 17, 2022Literacy and Technology & New Media: Home Literacy Environment and Early Bilingual Vocabulary Gaps
The foundation of bilingualism is built upon vocabulary development in both languages. However, bilingual children often experience differential trajectories in vocabulary development across their two languages. Such is the case of many Chinese bilingual children in North America. A body of…
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May 6, 20224th Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics
The University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University will host the fourth Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL) online on May 6, 2022. This student-centred event has the primary aim of bringing together researchers working on sociolinguistic topics of interest in the Pacific…
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April 19, 2022Diversity and Literary Acquisition
Zoom Link Meeting ID: 688 8472 6165 Passcode: 359917 Speakers Susan Rvachew, Ph.D. (McGill University), Dahlia Thompson (M. Phil., Doctoral Candidate), and Carlos Perez Valle (B.A., Doctoral Student) will present on Diversity and Literary Acquisition as part of the Literacy and…
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April 1, 2022Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference
As a long-standing tradition of UBC Psychology’s undergraduate community, the Psychology Students’ Association of UBC (PSA) and the Department of Psychology are proud to announce the 24th Annual UBC Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference (PURC) will be held virtually on…
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April 1, 2022Multilingual Caseloads: Clinical Perspectives From Pediatric SLPS
The Bilingualism & Multilingualism Development (BAM!TO) Lab is offering an online workshop and roundtable discussion on Friday, April 1st (8:00am - 11:00am PST) that will focus on speech language pathologists’ perspectives on providing assessment and intervention for multilingual…
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March 31, 2022Introduction to Deep Learning Workshop
This workshop, held on March 31, 2022 from 9:00am - 12:00pm, is a hands-on introduction to the revolutionary methods of deep learning-no prior knowledge of machine learning required. Click here to learn more and register. ABOUT THIS EVENT Deep learning, a class of machine…
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March 25, 2022Language Science Talks: Dr. Edward Chang, Toward a speech neuroprosthetic (Rescheduled)
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…
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March 24, 2022Inclusive Languages Public Talk: Not so "generic" masculines: empirical studies on interpretations in French and Spanish
Join UBC Okanagan's Department of Languages and World Literatures for a virtual talk with Dr. David Heap as he discusses the use of the so-called “generic masculines” in both French and Spanish languages. In debates over the use of “generic masculines,” language…
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March 15, 2022Bertolt Brecht’s Me-ti or the Aesthetics of Translation: Universal Love, Mutual Benefits, and Transience
Join the UBC CENES department on March 15, 2022 at 12:30 pm PT for the virtual Ziegler Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Chunjie Zhang of the University of California at Davis. This talk is co-sponsored by the UBC Eurasia Research Cluster & the Centre for European Studies. Register here via…
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February 23, 2022Ethics in Technology
Ethics in Technology is the second installation of Ethics for UBC, a five-part speaker series that will explore the current landscape of ethics scholarship and education across the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses of the University of British Columbia (UBC). In attending this interactive 75…