Past Events

Quality Education and the Role of Digital Technology in Nepal

January 17, 2019

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 transform the way children learn through engagement, exploration and experi

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

January 7, 2019

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

Grad Student & Postdoc Social

December 7, 2018

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

November 29, 2018

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 Anglia.

Linguistics Research Seminar - Noureddine Elouazizi

November 29, 2018

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)

November 28, 2018

Linguistics Research Seminar - Panel Discussion

November 22, 2018

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

November 20, 2018

Please join us as we welcome Dr.

Linguistics Research Seminar

November 15, 2018

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

Dr. Valter Ciocca (SASS Lunchtime Colloquium)

November 14, 2018

Listening in noisy environments with cochlear implants: A Bayesian analysis of masking and auditory continuity data Dr.