Post-Doc news

Our group welcomes Jordi Fortuny as a new post-doc, beginning December 1, 2012. Jordi received a 2-year Beatriu de Pinos fellowship from the Catalan government. We also congratulate Silvia Martinez Ferreiro for receiving a Beatriu de Pinos fellowship, which will allow her to work at the University of Groningen before coming back to join our group.

Talk - Rosselló, Alba & Borrega

On November 9, Joana Rosselló (UB), Celia Alba (UPF) & Oriol Borrega (UB), will give a talk at UAB on the following topic: "Does iconicity override duality of patterning in sign languages? Issues from a new sign language". You can see more details about the place and the time of the talk here.

BIB tutorials #2

On Monday, Oct 29th, Cedric Boeckx will give the second BIB tutorial for this semester. The topic will be how to prepare abstracts for conferences and articles for journals. The meeting place will be the Sala de Professors, 5th floor, Edifici Josep Carner, UB. See you all at 18.00.

Symposium Recordings

The recordings of the ICREA International Symposium on Biolinguistics are now available at UBTV. You can access them via the links below:

Monday, October 1, 2012: Morning Sessions
Monday, October 1, 2012: Afternoon Sessions
Tuesday, October 2, 2012: Morning Sessions
Tuesday, October 2, 2012: Afternoon Sessions
Wednesday, October 3, 2012: Morning Sessions
Wednesday, October 3, 2012: Afternoon Sessions

Upcoming BIB tutorials

BIB is pleased to announce the beginning of its activities for the new semester. On Monday 22/10, from 18.00 to 20.00, Cedric Boeckx will give two tutorials on how to deliver good presentations and how to prepare abstracts for conferences. The meeting place will be the Sala de Becaris, 5th floor, Edifici Josep Carner, UB.

Feel free to spread the word to anyone interested and see you lots on Monday.

Joan Sola Prize 2012

We congratulate Cedric Boeckx and Txuss Martin on winning the II Joan Solà International Prize in Catalan Philology (this year, dedicated to Syntax) for work on the syntax of Catalan dative clitics. You can find out more about it here.

Human Paleoneurology 2012

BIB members strongly encourage you to attend the Human Paleoneurology 2012 symposium in Burgos, very much related to biolinguistic issues. The event is organized by Emiliano Bruner, who took part in our ICREA International Symposium in Biolinguistics.
You can find out more about the event here.

Post-symposium

All the members of the Biolinguistics Initiative Barcelona would like to thanks all the speakers, poster presenters and members of the audience for making the ICREA International Symposium on Biolinguistics a success.
Feel free to let anyone of us know your thoughts on the event. This would help us shape future meetings of this kind.
In the next few weeks we hope to have the videos and pictures of the event available on this site.