Call deadline: 15 March 2010
Event dates: 27 - 29 May 2010
Event Location: Montreal, Canada
Event URL: http://www.biolinguistics.uqam.ca

The last decade has seen advances in our understanding of the factors entering into the human language design stemming from linguistic theory, biolinguistics, and biophysics. This workshop brings together participants from a broad array of disciplines to discuss topics that include the connection between linguistic theory and genetics, evolutionary developmental biology and language variation, computer science/information theory and the reduction of uncertainty/complexity.

Reminder: One week left for discounted registrations.

Event Dates: 21 - 30 June 2010
Event Location: Montreal, Canada
Meeting URL: http://www.summer10.isc.uqam.ca/page/inscription.php

The Cognitive Science Institute of the Université du Québec à Montréal is
pleased to launch the program of its third Summer Institute which will bear on The Origins of Language and will take place at UQAM (Montreal, Canada) in June 2010. The program is on the web site of the Summer institute at the following address:

http://www.summer10.isc.uqam.ca/

The program features a wide range of talks from well known researchers across a number of disciplines. The following list provides a small sample of the talks on offer.

• Biological Evolution - David Sloan Wilson
• Co-Evolution of Language and Culture - William Durham
• Animal Communication - Stephanie White
• Brain Evolution - Terrence Deacon
• Origins of Human Communication - Michael Tomasello
• Language as A Culturally Evolving System: From Computer Simulation to The Experiment Lab - Simon Kirby
• How Language Emerges in Situated Embodied Interactions - Luc Steels
• On the Origin of Grammar - Bernd Heine

Luke McCrohon