The Center for Language and Cognition Groningen is pleased to announce the 41st TABU Dag, which will take place virtually on June 10th & 11th, 2021. TABU Dag is an annual international broad linguistics conference which offers excellent opportunities to meet other linguists and discuss current research. Graduate students and (post-)doctoral researchers in particular are encouraged to present their work.

On Friday 23 April 2021, the annual Anéla/VIOT Juniorendag (junior research day) is hosted as an online event by the University of Groningen. At the Juniorendag, graduate students, junior researchers and PhD candidates in the field of applied linguistics (language use, language acquisition, education, discourse, or communication) get the opportunity to present their work through an oral or poster presentation.

Keynote speakers are Gerrit Jan Kootstra (RU Nijmegen) and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). The deadline for abstracts is 14 December 2020.

The annual lecture series of the Language and Hearing Center Amsterdam (LHCA) will be held online this year. On the 3rd of December, the lectures will be focused on accessible communication for people with hearing impairment.

The Dutch Annual Linguistics Day 2021 (DALD2021) will be held on Friday 29 January 2021. Because of the COVID-19 rules and guidelines, we have decided to keep the DALD fully online for the first time. But that doesn’t make it any less fun!

Laura Downing, Professor of African Languages at the University of Gothenburg and currently NIAS research fellow, is the guest speaker at the online ACLC seminar on Friday 27 November 2020 from 16:15 till 17:30.

Young researchers often are at the forefront of scientific innovation, but don’t always have the time, network or financial means to translate those innovative insights into societal impact. NWO offers a helping hand. Each year, NWO hands out the Synergy Award for the most enticing, daring or compelling societal impact idea in the Social Sciences and the Humanities.

Menno Reijven, PhD student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Lecturer at the UvA, is the guest speaker at this online ACLC seminar on Friday 13 November 2020 from 16:15 till 17:30.

The upcoming Syntax Interface Lecture will take on November 2nd. We will host a talk by Marloes Oomen (Institut Jean Nicod, École Normale Supérieure) with the title “Verbal constructions in German Sign Language: A unified analysis in terms of agreement”.