Nijmegen Lectures 2008
by Simon E. Fisher and Gary F. Marcus
Lecture 1: Genetics of Language & vice versa
Lecture by Gary Marcus: The genetics of language?
Lecture by Simon Fisher: The language of genetics
Discussion: Genetic variations that affect language
Discussants:
Katharina Dworzynski, King's College London (U.K.)
Andreas Papassotiropoulos , University of Basel (Switzerland)
Franck Ramus, CNRS, Paris (France)
Lecture 2: Methods, Models & Bridges
Lecture by Simon Fisher: Bridging genes, brains, and language
Lecture by Gary Marcus: What is the language faculty made of?
Discussion: Domain-specificity and animal models
Discussants:
Kurt Hammerschmidt, German Primate Center, Göttingen (Germany)
James Hurford, University of Edinburgh (U.K.)
Constance Scharff, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
Lecture 3: Evolution & Beyond
Lecture by Gary Marcus: Language as kluge
Lecture by Simon Fisher: Language evolution and the genomics revolution
Discussion: Language evolution
Discussants:
Bart de Boer, University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
Wolfgang Enard, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
Simon Kirby, University of Edinburgh (U.K.)
Location
Radboud University Nijmegen, Aula, Comeniuslaan 2, Nijmegen
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Wundtlaan 1, Nijmegen
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