Lectures

SMART Cognitive Science Lectures – Current Program

  • Friday April 26th, 13-14h45 – SMART CS Debate on Language, thought & recursion with Daniel Everett (Bentley University) and 15h15-16h30, ACLC lecture by Daniel Everett on Language and Culture. For details, see here. Location: Oudemanhuispoort, Amsterdam, room F2.01c.

There is no registration required for the debate and the lecture. See here for information about a live webstream of the events.

  • Friday June 21st, 16-17h30 – Michel DeGraff (MIT), A hitchhiker’s guide to Cognitive Science via Creole studies (with an introduction by Enoch Aboh), VOC-zaal, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam

SMART Cognitive Science Lectures – Spring 2013

  • Friday February 8th, 16-17h30 – Ray Jackendoff (Tufts): Language, Meaning, and Rational Thought (with an introduction by Willem Zuidema). Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Amsterdam. For more details, see the abstract.
  • Friday March 8th, 16-17h30 – Eve Clark (Stanford). Language, Interaction, and Acquisition (with an introduction by Raquel Fernandez). Doelenzaal, Singel 421, Amsterdam (abstract)
  • Friday April 5th, 16-17h30 – Lauren Stewart (Goldsmiths, University of London), Congenital Amusia – Why do all the songs sound the same? (with an introduction by Gabor Haden). VOC-zaal, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam (abstract)

SMART Cognitive Science Lectures – Fall 2012

  • Friday 26 October, 16h-17h30 – Afra Alishahi (Tilburg): What computers tell us about human language: the case of learning words (with an introduction by Rens Bod). (abstract)
    Doelenzaal, Singel 421, Amsterdam
  • Friday 23 November, 16h-17h30 – Mark Steedman (Edinburgh): Using Linguistic Knowledge in Natural Language Processing (with an introduction by Khalil Sima’an). (abstract)
    VOC-zaal, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam
  • Friday 14 December, 13h30-15h30 – Marc Slors (Nijmegen): Folk-Psychology as Reconstruction: Why Social-Cognitive Processes Need Not Resemble Their Linguistic Representations (with an introduction by Martin Stokhof). (abstract)

SMART Cognitive Science Lectures – Spring 2012

  • Saturday, 7/1, 16h30-18h30, Daniel Dennett (Tufts University): The Evolution of Reasons (abstract)
  • Wednesday 18/1, 16h-18h, BH0.04, Kevin Knight (USC, ISI): Code-breaking and Language Translation: Some Connections (with an introduction by Khalil Sima’an) (abstract)
  • Tuesday 20/3, 16h-18h, P2.27, CSCA Lecture by Ianthi Tsimpli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) on Signed and Spoken Language Asymmetries in a Polyglot-Savant (with a SMART CS introduction by Anne Baker, UvA) (abstract)
  • Friday 20/4, 16h-18h, UT3.01, Tecumseh Fitch (Vienna), Music and Language: The Formal Identity Hypothesis (with an introduction by Henkjan Honing, UvA) (abstract)
  • Friday 25/5, 16h-18h, UT3.01, Carel ten Cate (Leiden), On the linguistic abilities of songbirds (with an introduction by Willem Zuidema, UvA) (abstract)
  • Friday 22/6, 16h-18h, Doelenzaal, Östen Dahl (Stockholm), How languages get complex (with an introduction by Kees Hengeveld) (abstract)

Locations: UT3.01 is in the University Theater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16 (next door to Cafe de Jaren); the Doelenzaal is in the University Library, Singel 421, Amsterdam (near the Spui)

SMART Cognitive Science Lectures – December 2011

  • Wednesday 14/12, William Bechtel (UCSD): Deciphering the Neural Code: A Critical Role for Representations in Understanding Cognitive Mechanisms (abstract)