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Past Events
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Language, Law & Justice Workshop
Virtual (Zoom)
Vancouver BC V6T1Z4
CanadaMay 18 - May 20, 2022
Join UBC's Department of Linguistics for the upcoming Language, Law & Justice Workshop, featuring talks from a range of speakers, including criminologists, exonerees, legal experts and linguists!
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Literacy and Technology & New Media: Home Literacy Environment and Early Bilingual Vocabulary Gaps
Virtual (Zoom)
Vancouver BC V6T1Z4
CanadaMay 17, 2022
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.
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4th Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics
Virtual (Zoom)
Vancouver BC V6T1Z4
CanadaMay 6, 2022
The University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University will host the fourth Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL) online on May 6, 2022.
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Diversity and Literary Acquisition
Online (Zoom)
Vancouver BC V6T1Z4
CanadaApril 19, 2022
Zoom Link Meeting ID: 688 8472 6165 Passcode: 359917
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Psychology Undergraduate Research Conference
Virtual (Zoom)
Vancouver BC V6T1L4
CanadaApril 1, 2022
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 April 1 and 2 2022.
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Multilingual Caseloads: Clinical Perspectives From Pediatric SLPS
Virtual (Zoom)
Toronto ON M5S 1A1
CanadaApril 1, 2022
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 children in Canada and future areas of research in the provisi
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Introduction to Deep Learning Workshop
Virtual
Vancouver BC V6T1Z4
CanadaMarch 31, 2022
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.
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Language Science Talks: Dr. Edward Chang, Toward a speech neuroprosthetic (Rescheduled)
Rudy North Lecture Theatre, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health
2215 Wesbrook Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z3
CanadaMarch 25, 2022
RSVP This talk has been rescheduled from March 2020.
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Inclusive Languages Public Talk: Not so "generic" masculines: empirical studies on interpretations in French and Spanish
Virtual (Zoom)
Vancouver BC V6T1Z4
CanadaMarch 24, 2022
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.
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Bertolt Brecht’s Me-ti or the Aesthetics of Translation: Universal Love, Mutual Benefits, and Transience
Virtual (Zoom)
Vancouver BC V6T1Z4
CanadaMarch 15, 2022
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.