Associated Event: PhD Workshop & Defense Danielle Naegeli (Friday, 13 March)

[Language Evolution and Learning in Amsterdam]

Dear all,

While this is not an event organized by Language Evolution and Learning in Amsterdam, we are delighted to share an associated event that might be of interest to members of this mailing list:

On Friday 13 March, Danielle Naegeli (currently MPI Nijmegen) will defend her PhD thesis at Tilburg University (supervised by David Peeters, Emiel Krahmer, Marieke Schouwstra).

A workshop on language emergence will take place on the morning prior to the defense. Both events (workshop and defense) can be attended in person or online. The Zoom link for the workshop will be posted on the LELA-website as soon as possible. 

Workshop 9:00 - 12:00

Communication across modalities: From emergence to use

9:30-9:45 – arrival of guests, coffee & tea 

 

9:45-10:00 – introduction (David & Marieke)

 

10:00-10:25 – Marc Swerts

“Smile Mimicry in Social Interaction”

 

10:30-10:55 – Sotaro Kita

“Communicative efficiency and socio-cognitive ability shape silent gesture production”

11:00-11:25 – Sean Roberts (online)

“The Arena of Language Evolution: How the environment motivates the emergence of symbolic communication”

11:30-11:55 – Simon Kirby (online)
“Systematic gestures evolve in a large scale cultural evolution experiment despite participants being biased against them”

12:00 – Lunch

Zoom link: tba

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PhD Defense 13:30

See https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/events/phd-defense-danielle-naegeli for more info and live stream.

Please feel free to join the workshop and defense, either in person or online.  

Kind regards,

Marieke Schouwstra

Info: https://sites.google.com/view/lela-amsterdam

Email list (sign up): https://groups.google.com/g/lelams/  

 

[Language Evolution and Learning in Amsterdam]

Dear all,

Please find below a slightly updated schedule and the Zoom link for tomorrow.

Workshop 9:00 - 12:00

Communication across modalities: From emergence to use

9:30-9:45 – arrival of guests, coffee & tea 

 

9:45-10:00 – introduction (David & Marieke)

 

10:00-10:25 – Marc Swerts

“Smile Mimicry in Social Interaction”

 

10:30-10:55 – Sotaro Kita

“Communicative efficiency and socio-cognitive ability shape silent gesture production”

11:00-11:30 – Break

11:30-11:55 – Simon Kirby (online)
“Systematic gestures evolve in a large scale cultural evolution experiment despite participants being biased against them”

12:00 – Lunch

Zoom details:

https://tilburguniversity.zoom.us/j/88952385571?pwd=V2cCgAqOG0hGkhmnXkRqfzrHEiNAub.1

 

Meeting ID: 889 5238 5571

Passcode: 7811080876

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PhD Defense 13:30

See https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/events/phd-defense-danielle-naegeli for more info and live stream.

Kind regards,

Marieke Schouwstra

Info: https://sites.google.com/view/lela-amsterdam

Email list (sign up): https://groups.google.com/g/lelams/ 

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