Utrecht Theoretical Linguistics

Events

25 September 2026
14:15 - 18:00
Janskerkhof 2-3, room 0.19

Workshop in honor of Rick Nouwen

On the 25th of September, we will host a workshop in honor of Rick Nouwen, on the occasion of his departure from Utrecht University, to thank him for his great contribution to UU Linguistics.

PROGRAM
14.15-14.30 Opening
14.30-15.05 Lisa Bylinina: Augustinian BabyLM
15.05-15.40 Albert Gatt: Evaluating LLMs with LLMs: Whose judgements do we capture?
15.40-15.50 break
15.50-16.25 Merel Scholman: Signalling with one hand: Expectations during discourse processing
16.25-17.00 Jakub Dotlacil: Reading and believing disinformation
17.00-17.15 break
17.15-17.50 Anne-France Pinget: Metaphors for understanding the spread of sound change
17.50-18.00 Closing remarks

All invited!