Upcoming talks
Title to be announced (November 2026)
- Hélène Deacon, Ph.D., Professor, Dalhousie University
Past talks
Bilingualism and Neuroplasticity: what we know, what to do next (May 2026 - In collaboration with the CRBLM)
- Christos Pliatsikas, Ph.D., Professor, University of Reading
Quantifying the diversity of early social and language environments (April 2026 - In collaboration with the CRBLM)
- Esmee Miron Aalders, doctoral student, University of Zurich
Changing Minds: How Language Experience Modifies Cognitive Systems (November 2025 - In collaboration with the CRBLM)
- Ellen Bialystok, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor, York University
The Bilingual Reading Brain: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Child Literacy (September 2025)
- Ioulia Kovelman, Ph.D., Full Professor, University of Michigan
Language In Its Social Context: Cultural Identity and Ideology (November 2024)
- Marina Doucerain, Ph.D., Associate professor, Université du Québec à Montréal
The interplay between language control and memory in bilinguals and second language learners (May 2024)
- Teresa Bajo, Ph.D., Full Professor, University of Granada
Children’s reading comprehension: unpacking the role of pronouns (March 2024)
- Émilie Courteau, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University
Modulatory Factors Of Grammar Learning In Second And Third Languages (November 2023)
- Marta Rivera, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Granada, Spain
The attitudes and ideologies that motivate multilingual parenting in Quebec (May 2023)
- Ruth Kircher, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, European Centre for Minority Issues
How do attention and second language linguistic input interact? (February 2023)
- Daphnée Simard, Ph.D., Full Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal
How we pay attention to first words (January 2023)
- Michael Erard, Ph.D., Author and linguist – author of Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
