The Multilingual Mind: Lecture series on multilingualism across disciplines

 

The lecture series ‘The Multilingual Mind’ will start again in April and will run until June 2021. The lectures will take place every Tuesday from 17.00 until 18.30 (CEST/UTC+02). This semester they will be hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Jagiellonian University, University of Konstanz, University Milano-Bicocca, and University of Reading. As in the previous semesters, the speakers will present research findings on multilingualism across different disciplines, in line with the MultiMind project (linguistics, education, psychology, neuroscience, speech & language pathology). The lecture series is aimed at everyone interessted in Multilingualism.

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The recordings of the talks are available here. 

Programme (You can download the programme here)

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13.04.21

Erika Hoff (Florida Atlantic University): Why bilingual development is not easy, but possible

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20.04.21

Núria Sebastián Gallés (Pompeu Fabra University): How bilingualism shapes the infants’ mind/brain

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27.04.21

Merel Keijzer (University of Groningen): Language learning as a vaccine to promote healthy aging: The linguistic, social and cognitive effects of third-age language learning

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04.05.21

Francesca Costa & Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca): Double or single literacy in different contexts

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11.05.21

Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge): Bilingualism in children with developmental disorders: From language and cognition to human rights

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18.05.21

Marco Calabria (Open University of Catalonia): How is cognitive neuropsychology contributing to bilingualism research?

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25.05.21

Jia’en Yee (University Putra Malaysia): Multilingualism effects on brain structure

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01.06.21

Maren Eikerling (IRCCS - Associazione La Nostra Famigli 'Istituto scientifico Eugenio Medea'): Computerized bilingual screenings of developmental language disorder and developmental dyslexia in bilingual children

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08.06.21

Johanne Paradis (University of Alberta): Bilingual development in first generation Syrian refugee children: What factors contribute to successes and challenges?

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15.06.21

Dávid György (University of Geneva): Rhythmic priming of syntactic processing: a common structure?

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23-25.06.21

Conference on Multilingualism (COM2021)

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28-29.06.21

European Civil Society Platform for Multilingualism (ECSPM)

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Organisation

The Multilingual Mind in collaboration with:

  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: Department of Greek Linguistics, Me 2 Glosses

  • Jagiellonian University: Department of Psychology, Bilingualism Matters Kraków

  • University of Konstanz: Department of Linguistics, Centre for Multilingualism, Bilingualism Matters@Konstanz

  • University Milano-Bicocca: Department of Psychology, Bilinguismo contra@Milano-Bicocca

  • University of Reading: Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism, Bilingualism Matters@Reading