ECOM member and coordinator Aliyar Ozercan received IBACS-BIRC Research Assistantship in Neuroimaging for 2019-2020 academic year. As an IBRAiN fellow, he will provide a teaching resource to help BIRC users design and implement experimental procedures for fMRI, EEG, TMS and other methodologies, provide resources for data analysis, and oversee use of equipment by others. Congratulations, Aliyar!

On May 15, our member Drew Johnson gave a talk in the Epistemology: Current Themes seminar at Arche, titled “Deep Disagreement, Conviction, and Humility.” On May 22, he also gave another talk titled “Lies and Hypocrisy: Illocutionary Acts in Ethical Thought and Discourse” at the University of Aberdeen. 

ECOM hosted its 6th annual workshop on May 3-4 at MCHU/Laurel 305, titled “Communication, Context, Conversation”. The workshop brought researchers working on the pragmatics, linguistic analysis, and comparative and developmental psychology of communication and conversation together.  The workshop schedule can be found under our Events.

Invited speakers include: Robyn Carston (UCL) Danielle Matthews (Sheffield) Anne Bezuidenhout (U of SC) Mandy Simons (CMU) Federico Roassano (UCSD) Also on the program: Dorit Bar-On (UConn) Mitch Green (UConn) Ruth Millikan (UConn)   Our invited contributors are: Constant Bonard (U of Geneva and U of Antwerp) Mihnea Capraru (Nazarbayev) Mike Deigan (Yale) Rory Harder (U of Toronto) Poppy Mankowitz (Nova University of Lisbon)

Our invited participants include: Paul Bloomfield (UConn) Mark Jary (Roehampton) Stefan Kaufmann (UConn) Bill Lycan (UConn) Craige Roberts (OSU) Lionel Shapiro (UConn) William Snyder (UConn) Zoltan Szabo (Yale) Catherine Wearing (Wellesley) Larry Horn (Yale) Our poster presenters are: Sam Berstler (Yale) Ralph DiFranco (Auburn) Benjamin Lennertz (Colgate) & David Miguel Gray (U of Memphis) Kate Hazel Stanton (Yale) Alejandro Vesga (Cornell)