Programme
Course modules
The Summer School will include the following five modules:
- Bilingualism and aging
Jubin Abutalebi (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan) - Bilingual acquisition: the early stages
Fred Genesee (McGill University, Montreal) - The social side of multilingualism
Katherine Kinzler (Cornell University, Ithaca - Connecting language
Guillaume Thierry (Bangor University, Bangor)
Researchers' workshop
The researchers' workshop offers participants the opportunity to present and discuss their work and receive constructive feedback from the renowned experts present at the summer school.
Workshop chair: Albert Costa, Cristina Baus and Marco Calabria (Pompeu Fabra University)
Participants attending the BSBM17 are kindly invited to submit their contributions for the researchers' workshop, which will be held on Wednesday afternoon from 15:30 to 18:30 and Friday morning from 9:30 to 13:30. Each contribution should use 15-20 minutes to present pre- or post-doctoral research either in progress or finished, and it will be followed by 5 minutes of discussion. The workshop chair will lead the discussion with the audience.
Proposals should be sent to [email protected] - when you send the abstract, please make sure that both the subject of the e-mail and the name of the document contain the following information: "BSBM2017_NAME&SURNAME_workshop". The abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Abstracts can have one or multilpe authors, and length should not exceed 200 words (excluding references).
There will also be a Poster session on Friday morning.
A certificate will be provided for each presenter.
Abstract submission deadline: March 20th 2017
Notification of acceptance: April 1st 2017
Schedule
Tuesday, September 12
9:00: Welcome
9:30-13:30: Jubin Abutalebi
13:30-15:30: Lunch
15:30-19:00: Fred Genesee
Wednesday, September 13
9:30-13:30: Katherine D. Kinzler
13:30-15:30: Lunch
15:30-18:30: Workshop I. Oral presentations by researchers
Thursday, September 14
9:30-13:30: Guillaume Thierry
Friday, September 15
9:30-13:30: Workshop II and Poster session
13.30 - 14.00: Certificates and closure
A coffee break service will be served per day at 11.30.
English will be the working language of the Summer School