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Program February-June 2017

[Program updated 16 February 2017] 16February La langue de Boas. Quelques remarques à propos de l’écriture de Franz Boas.Chloé LaplantineLaboratoire d’Histoire des Théories Linguistiques CNRS-Université Paris Diderot 7March The Prague Linguistic Circle and the analogy between musicology and linguisticsBart KarstensUniversity

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Program August-December 2015

[Updated 16 September 2015] 5August Esperanto: some observations of a speaker-linguistKen MinerUniversity of Kansas 19August John Stoddart’s The Philosophy of Language: the “last truly universalist work”Joseph SubbiondoCalifornia Institute of Integral Studies 2September Las disciplinas lingüísticas en la España decimonónica: Julián

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Program February-June 2015

11February Somewhat caught between lexicology and syntax: a look at phraseologySabine FiedlerUniversity of Leipzig 25February Examining material aspects of manuscripts (Part II)Anna PytlowanyUniversity of Amsterdam 13March Some Remarks on Objectivity in PragmaticsSamuel LewinUniversity of Sydney 25March Sensualism for dummiesEls ElffersUniversity

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Program August-December 2014

[Program updated 2 October 2014.] 6August Saussure’s sound symbolismJohn JosephUniversity of Edinburgh 20August Break 3September The lost Tesoro de ydioma ylocoRebeca Fernández RodríguezCentro de Estudos em Letras (CEL)Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) 17September ‘You don’t see what you

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Program October-December 2013

[Program updated 27 October 2013] 16October A uniform orthography and early linguistic research in AustraliaDavid MooreUniversity of Western Australia 23October Break 30October Hendrik Pos and the epistemological foundations of structuralismPatrick FlackCharles University, Prague 6November Teaching language to a boy born

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Program July-October 2013

[Program updated 30 July 2013] 24July Rethinking the history of the Aryan paradigmChristopher HuttonUniversity of Hong Kong 31July Break 7August Linguists choosing the wrong side: Jacob van Ginneken and other alleged Nazi collaboratorsToon Van HalUniversity of Leuven 14August Der Artikel

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