[CALL News] Forum: Tohoku University

[Larry Chong]

The First International Forum on Language, Brain, and Cognition:
    What Leading Researchers Can Share with Us
    (The Tohoku University 21st Century COE Program in Humanities)

Date/Time: May 25 (Sun), 9am to 17:00pm
Venue: Sendai International Center, Sendai, Japan
     http://www.sira.or.jp/english/e_top.html

*Registration fee: Free, but Pre-registration desirable.

*Inquiry and Pre-registration:

   Please contact:
   Tohoku University 21st Century COE Program Office (Humanities)

   Phone:022-217-7550, Fax: 022-217-7850
   E-mail: office@lbc21.jp, URL: http://www.lbc21.jp

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Program

9:00 Registration

9:40-10:40

"Human-Robot Communication" (in Japanese)

Eiji Nakano, Professor of Robotics, Graduate School of Information
Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

10:40-11:40

"Proactive Control in Percepto-motor Systems and the Implication for
Consciousness" (in Japanese)

Yasuji Sawada, Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University, and Professor,
Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai, Japan

12:40-13:40

"Reading Others $B!G (B Emotional States" (in Japanese)

Katsuki Nakamura, Associate Professor, Primate Research Institute,
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

14:00-15:00

"Grammar and Natural Language" (in English)

Frederick Newmeyer, Professor of Linguistics, University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington, USA

15:00-16:00

"Form and Function in Human Language" (in English)

Masayoshi Shibatani, Deedee McMurtry Professor of Humanities,
Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA

16:10-16:40

Discussion

17:30-19:30

Reception

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Kaoru Horie, Ph.D.
Professor of Linguistics
Strategic Research and Education Center for an Integrated Approach
  to Language, Brain and Cognition (The LBC Research Center)
  Tohoku University 21st Century COE Program in Humanities

Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, 980-8576 Japan
Phone/Fax: +81-22-217-7550
Email: khorie@intcul.tohoku.ac.jp
http://www.lbc21.jp