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