Guest lectures and seminars
Upcoming
In this talk, David Thornton will explore whether recovering from COVID-related brain fog means the brain has truly recovered, using EEG and a working-memory task to look beneath how people say they feel.
Sarah Cameron will discuss gender asymmetries in Norwegian, focusing on how neuter and masculine gender differences affect language processing.
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Ewa Partyga (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) will present her project on Ibsen's Munich Trilogy and its Polish interpreters.
A writing, making and zine workshop hosted by Hattie Morrison - an artist, facilitator and writer from Carmarthenshire.
In this talk, David Osgarby, Wout Sinnaeve and Michelle Waldispühl, introduce DESCRYPT and present computational case studies on deciphering Pictish symbols and detecting, transcribing, and restoring runic inscriptions.
Vincent DeLuca will discuss how different aspects of multilingual experience shape neurocognitive adaptations across the lifespan, including executive function, language control, and cognitive aging.
Anežka Matěnová (Charles University, Prague) will delve into the ironical side of a selection of Ibsen's plays.
Ghoutia Soumia Attig (PhD Candidate at the University of Tlemcen, Algeria) examines the political rhetoric surrounding the introduction of English education in Algeria
Multilingual families navigate multiple languages, and their multilingual lives are shaped by space, history, and identity.
In this talk, Elin McCready (ICREA/UAB) presents a novel approach to the meaning of slurs in three parts: a descriptive predication, an indexical social meaning, and an invocational component, which together account for a broad range of facts about slur meanings.
Agnese D’Angelo discusses how week-long naturalistic recordings and NLP can capture the quantity, quality, and multilingual dynamics of children’s everyday communication.
Professor Janet Garton (University of East Anglia) will present her ongoing project of translation of the entire corpus of Ibsen's letters into English.
Natalia Mitrofanova and Serge Minor will talk about how structural similarity, cue salience, and age of L2 onset shape cross-linguistic influence in the grammar of multilingual children, focusing on nominal case and verbal aspect.
Lindsay Morcom (Queens University, Canada) discusses collective grassroots language revitalization efforts in an urban Indigenous community
Emilia Wąsikiewicz-Firlej and Anna Szczepaniak-Kozak (Adam Mickiewicz University) present recent research critically examining the status of minority language education in Poland
In this seminar, Hrefna Svavarsdóttir (Harvard University) will present her work on the nature of Old Icelandic interrogative partitives (like hvat manna, lit. 'what of men') and their legacy in Modern Icelandic.
Sabiha Huq (BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh) will talk about her forthcoming book on Ibsen and blue humanities.
Jenny Gudmundsen and Hilde Thyness from Språkrådet (The Language Council of Norway) will present their ongoing work on the topic language and inclusion among adult immigrants.
Two guest lectures by Dr. Kristel Zilmer and Dr. Kristine Ødeby Haugan from the Museum of Cultural History
Maria Evjen discusses how perceptual similarity may be driving the ongoing Norwegian merger of /ʃ/ and /ç/.
Elizabeth Stang (University of Washington) will present her ongoing project on Hallvard Bræin's Gatas Gynt.
Antri Kanikli (UCLan Cyprus University) discusses the endangerment and transmission of Cypriot Arabic.
Elisabeth Knight talks about how working memory and metacognitive abilities shape vocabulary learning, and explores whether multimodal cues such as iconic gestures can support children’s word learning.
Kamaluddin Nilu (University of Oslo) will present his latest research about Knut Rose's artistic works with Ibsen's drama.
Michał B. Paradowski discusses Social Network Analysis (SNA) and investigates how the structure and quality of social interactions shape linguistic progress.