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The ISLE talks for the autumn term 2021 will be held onsite again with occasional online talks by speakers from abroad. We will inform you about any possible changes arising due to COVID-19 measures.
Information for UZH staff and students regarding the coronavirus outbreak
The ISLE colloquium is a joint event organized with the NCCR Evolving Language and the Brain & Cognition colloquium in Geneva.
The colloquium take place on Tuesdays from 12:15 to 13:30.
Contact us if you would like to participate in the meeting or discuss any ISLE related topic or ongoing study.
| Date |
Location |
Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
|
21.09.2021 |
(Uni Irchel) |
"Notes from underground: vocal communication in the naked mole-rat" (abstract) |
(MDC Berlin) |
| 28.09.2021 | Zoom | "Evolution of Language: chimpanzee vocal constructs and brain pathways" (abstract) |
and Cornelius Eichner2 (1Research Director, Institute of Cognitive Sciences, CNRS, Lyon 2Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig) |
| 05.10.2021 | Zoom | "The function and construction of moral narratives (with Molly Crockett)" (abstract) |
(Department of Psychology, Yale University) |
| 12.10.2021 |
(Uni Irchel) |
"Understanding the origins of syntax through event cognition: a comparative assessment of semantic role attribution" (abstract) | Vanessa Wilson (Department of Comparative Cognition, UniNE, Neuchatel) |
|
Thursday 21.10.2021 |
"Vocalizations in bats" |
(School of Biology, The University of St Andrews, Fife, UK) |
|
| 26.10.2021 |
(Uni Irchel) |
"Inferring brain and cognitive evolution from fossil human endocasts" (abstract) |
Marcia Ponce de León and Christoph Zollikofer (Department of Anthropology, UZH) |
| 02.11.2021 |
at 17:15 |
"The role of vocal production and phonological memory in word learning" (abstract) | Marilyn Vihman (Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York) |
| 09.11.2021 |
(Uni Irchel) |
"Morph in translation: a preliminary account of the temporal distribution of morphological information in the DoReCo corpus" (abstract) |
François Pellegrino and Matthew Stave (Dynamique Du Langage Research Lab, CNRS & University of Lyon, France) |
|
16.11.2021 |
(Uni Irchel) |
"More than maps: Spatial patterns of language evolution" (abstract) |
Peter Ranacher (Department of Geography, UZH) |
| 23.11.2021 |
at 15:15 |
"Communication without Conventions" (abstract) |
(Duke University, North Carolina (USA) and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany) |
| 30.11.2021 |
(Uni Irchel) |
"Vocal Signals across Animal Species: Bridging Studies on Meaning, Communication, and Language Evolution" (abstract) |
(Department of Comparative Language Science, UZH) |
| 07.12.2021 | Zoom |
"Discourse with few words: How infants form durable and expressible memories of objects and their names (with Hadar Raz)" (abstract) |
(Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington) |
| 14.12.2021 | B&C Zoom | to be announced |
(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany) |
| 21.12.2021 | No meeting | No meeting | |
| 28.12.2021 |
No meeting |
No meeting (Semester break) |
