Edinburgh Lectures in Language Evolution 2024
Short Title: ELLE

Date: 30-Oct-2024 - 20-Nov-2024
Location: Online and in person in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Contact: Kenny Smith
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk/index.php/elle/elle-2024/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Typology

Meeting Description:

The University of Edinburgh's Centre for Language Evolution and the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Natural Language Processing warmly invite you to join us to hear from our exciting line-up of speakers for this year’s iteration of The Edinburgh Lectures in Language Evolution (https://cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk/index.php/elle/elle-2024/).

Each year, ELLE showcases distinguished visiting and internal speakers to deliver lectures summarising their own research and sharing their thoughts on where the field is headed, and what exciting breakthroughs are yet to come. This year we are pleased to welcome the following speakers:

Shira Tal (University of Edinburgh) on Wednesday October 30th at 16:00-17:30 GMT
Cat Hobaiter (University of St Andrews) on Wednesday November 6th at 16:00-17:30 GMT
Richard Futrell (University of California, Irvine) on Wednesday November 13th at 16:00-17:30 GMT
Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) on Wednesday November 20th at 16:00-17:30 GMT.

Each event will begin with a lecture given by one of our four speakers, followed by a panel discussion featuring all speakers and then audience Q&A. Visit the ELLE 2024 website for more information about each talk and to register to receive talk announcements (https://cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk/index.php/elle/elle-2024/).

You are welcome to join us in person in Edinburgh, or online as attendees in the Zoom webinar. Talk announcements and webinar links for all dates will be shared with all registered attendees in advance of each event. The talks will also be live-streamed to YouTube for public viewing and will be available to watch at a later date.

We look forward to welcoming you to the 2024 ELLE talks!
Kenny Smith, Annie Holtz, Sydelle de Souza and Vlad Nedelcu

ELLE Organising Committee