Gestures – Online Talk Series in June 2021

Organisation: Kayla Kolff & Francesco Fanti Rovetta (Osnabrück), Ludmilla Reimer & Felix Schreiber (Bochum)

Zoom Link Details:
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/j/95658637739? pwd=SG9tSEVPN3E5S1l4cGtCRDhqNFNZZz09

Meeting ID: 956 5863 7739
Password: 111048

07.06.2021

16:00 – 17:30
Ying Choon Wu (UC San Diego): Exploring cognitive systems mediating speech-gesture integration and new methods for studying embodied concepts in Virtual Reality

18:00 – 19:30
Jürgen Streeck (University of Texas at Austin): The Emancipation of Gestures

14.06.2021

14:00 – 15:30
David Leavens (University of Sussex): The Referential Problem Space: situating joint attention

16:00 – 17:30
Seana Coulson (UC San Diego): Neurocognitive Resources in Speech-Gesture Integration

21.06.2021

14:00 – 15:30
Kirsty Graham (University of St Andrews): Meaning & Context in Great Ape Gestures

16:00 – 17:30
Daniela O’Neill (University of Waterloo): How gestures can more sensitively reveal pragmatic communication and comprehension skills in 2- to 5-year-old children

28.06.2021

14:00 – 15:30
Benjamin Angerer (Universität Osnabrück): Expressive limitations of gestures as catalysts for abstraction: Iconicity, metonymy, and metaphor

16:00 – 17:30
Martha Alibali (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Gestures in Teaching and Learning: Toward an Integrated Account