Forthcoming CALM Seminars

January – April 2025

CALM Seminars will be held in The Bridge Room (TH1001), The Moore Institute, The Hardiman Building, University of Galway

  • Wednesday 29th January 2025, 4-5pm, Speaker: Dr Ciara Egan, School of Psychology (TBC)
  • Wednesday 5th March 2025, 4-5pm, Speaker: Dr Daniela Gatt, University of Malta (TBC)
  • Wednesday 26th March 2025, 4-5pm, Speaker: Dr Verena Platzgummer and Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas, School of Education (TBC)

Event Archive:

Thursday, 31 March 2022

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages at 20: What have we gained from it? The Common European Framewo...

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Leading Minds #5 | Multilingualism In Episode 5 of the Leading Minds: Expert Voices podcast from the College of Medicine...

Thursday, 24 February 2022

From Fireside Stories to Bounded Texts The Flower/Ó Direáin Collection is an important primary source of linguistic and ...

Thursday, 3 February 2022

Back to the future: linguistic emergence in usage and the psychological mechanism of learning In this talk, Petar Milin ...

Thursday, 20 January 2022

Language contact phenomena in an Italian community in the UK Guest speaker Valentina Del Vecchio (G. d’Annunzio” Univers...

Thursday, 25 November 2021

The devil is in the detail: Irish-language phraseology and linguistic theory Talk by Dr. Katie Ní Loingsigh as part of t...

Thursday, 28 October 2021

Bilingual Language use and acquisition Bilingual Language use and acquisition: Motion event description by English-Frenc...

Thursday, 30 September 2021

Intergenerational language transmission in Irish-, Kurdish- and Polish-speaking families This first seminar in the CALM ...

Thursday, 15 April 2021

Corpus linguistics tools in language acquisition research This talk, by Prof. Anna Bączkowska (University of Gdansk), wi...

Thursday, 18 March 2021

Prosody and Language Acquisition In this seminar, Dr Francesca Nicora of University of Galway will join CALM Co-Director...

Thursday, 18 February 2021

Mincéirí Tori: Conversations on Irish Traveller Language Join Traveller activist and Gammon language advocate Oein DeBha...

Thursday, 10 September 2020

Artificial intelligence approaches to multilinguality In this webinar, Dr John McCrae, Lecturer at Data Science Institut...

Tuesday, 24 November 2020

‌Making research meaningful for multilingual parents Featuring Dr Mary-Pat O’Malley Keighran, Lecturer in Speech & Langu...

Thursday, 2 July 2020

Language in a health crisis: navigating Covid-19 in a multilingual Ireland This webinar addresses key sociolinguistic di...

Thursday, 2 September 2021

We are delighted to annouce the CALM Seminar Series for 2021-2022. With the support of the Moore Institute, there will b...