PhD defence ceremonies and inaugural lectures - Faculty of Humanities

06May2015

Concepts in motion

16:00 | Inaugural lecture

The prevailing approach to the way we model concepts limits the extent to which we can research their scope and development. In her inaugural lecture Arianna Betti argues that we need to arrive at a new conceptual ...

Nassau on horseback

14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony

For more than two thousand years authoritative individuals have been portrayed on horseback in the form of bronze statues, on coins or medallions, in paintings, prints and, more recently, on films and television. ...

Specific language impairment in bilingual children

10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

Specific language impairment (SLI) affects around seven per cent of school-age children. It means they have greater difficulty with language processing and acquisition. Aude Laloi’s study focuses on bilingual ...