The Cognitive Science Program,The Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the IGERT program on Language Plasticity are pleased to announce that the sixth annual University of Connecticut Language Fest will be held on Saturday, April 16th, from 9AM--4PM in Oak Hall Room 101 at the Storrs Campus. The UConn Language Fest is a University-wide research conference, now in its sixth year, which showcases the many facets of research on language in the UConn community. Each year, theLanguage Fest draws participation across many departments and programs, including Psychology, Education, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Linguistics, Literatures, Cultures and Languages, and Haskins Laboratories. All are welcome to attend: please save the date!
Schedule in Brief:
8:45: Coffee & Poster Setup
9:15–12:00: Special Panel: “Neurobiology of Language: A Look Forward” Panellists Sheila Blumstein, Dianne Newbury, BJ Casey, Simon Fisher, and Annette Karmiloff Smith.
12:00--1:00: Lunch
1:00--2:00: Poster Session #1
2:00--3:00: Invited Talk: Fumiko Hoeft, University of San Francisco: “Intergenerational Imaging of Reading Networks”
3:00--4:00: Poster session #2
Many thanks, and looking forward to seeing you at the Fest!
UConn LangFest Organizing Committee
This event is sponsored by the University of Connecticut Cognitive Science Program, The Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and by an IGERT grant (NSF) to the University of Connecticut.
For more information, contact: UConn LangFest Organizing Committee at Uconnlanguagefest@gmail.com