Members of the UConn community are cordially invited to the 2014 University of Connecticut Language Fest. The UConn Language Fest
is a University-wide research conference, now in its fourth year, which showcases the many facets of research on language in the UConn community. Last year's Fest drew participation across many departments and programs, including Psychology, Education, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Linguistics, Literatures, Cultures and Languages, Philosophy and Haskins Laboratories. The fest will take place from 9:00AM--4:00PM on Saturday, April 26th, in Oak Hall on the Storrs campus.
This year's Fest promises to be our most exciting event to date. The day will include talks from three visitors who are internationally known for their research on language and language disorders: BJ Casey, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, and Simon Fisher. In addition to these talks, 3 poster sessions will present language-related research from the UConn community.
Schedule of Events:
Talks take place in Oak Hall, room 101
Poster sessions will be held in the 1st-floor hallways of Oak hall
A light lunch will be served, and refreshments will be available during the poster sessions
8:15 Continental Breakfast
8:30: Poster Setup
8:50: Opening Remarks
9–10: BJ Casey, Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology: “Self control from 4 to 40 years”
10–11: Poster Session 1
11–12: Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Birkbeck, University of London: “Tracing cognitive-level outcomes back to their basic-level precursors in infancy: the importance of cross-syndrome comparisons”
12–1: Lunch
1-2: Poster Session 2
2-3: Simon Fisher, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: “FOXP2 as a molecular window into speech and language”
3-4: Poster Session 3
Sponsored by the University of Connecticut Cognitive Science Program and an IGERT grant on Language Plasticity to the University of Connecticut
IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING PARKING: Language Fest falls during Spring Weekend at UConn. Your entry to campus may be monitored; please indicate that you are attending Language Fest in Oak Hall. Weekday parking restrictions will be enforced (i.e., you will need to display an appropriate parking permit for your lot). Three options exist for attendees without a UConn parking permit: Area 2, Lot 9 (near Jorgensen Performing Arts Center) will be free; the North and South parking garages will also be available for paid parking.
For more information, contact: Marie Coppola or Emily Myers at marie.coppola@uconn.edu or emily.meyers@uconn.edu