Invited speakers 2020 – 2026 (August)
Invited on-site (in some cases online) presentations at the Center for Language Evolution Studies January 2020 – June 2025
| 1 | Roland Muehlenbernd | Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin | 22.05.2020
(~16.05-24.05.2020) |
Introduction to LabVanced |
| 2 | Seán Roberts | Cardiff University | 12.06.2020 | Introduction to The Causal Hypotheses in Evolutionary Linguistics Database (CHIELD) |
| 3 | Michael Pleyer | Universität Koblenz · Landau | 31.07.2020 | Language Evolution: new hypotheses and trends |
| 4 | Vinicius Macuch Silva | Osnabrück University | 7.08.2020 | Multimodality the origin of a novel communication system in face-to-face interaction |
| 5 | Joost van de Weijer | Lund University | 6.10.2020 (~1.10-24.10.2020) | WORKSHOP: ePrime |
| 6 | Andrew Holub | Oakland University | 4.12.2020 | Evolutionary psychological approaches to human sexual cognition, behaviour, and language |
| 7 | Roland Muehlenbernd | Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin | 8.01-12.03.2021 | WORKSHOP: LabVanced course II |
| 8 | SR Research team | SR Research | 20-22.07.2021 | Eyelink1000 training (SR Research online) |
| 9 | Vojtěch Fiala | Charles University in Prague | 8.10.21
(~1.10-10.10.2021) |
Perceived facial characteristics from an evolutionary perspective: Theoretical concepts vs. data-driven cross-cultural approach |
| 10 | Elizabeth Qing Zhang | Jiangsu Normal university | 22.10.2021
(~1.10-1.11.2021) |
Categorical perception as a combination of nature and nurture. |
| 11 | Michael Arbib
Steven Brown Laurel Buxbaum Francesco Ferretti Peter Gärdenfors Paula Marentette Ana Mineiro Cornelia Müller & Dorothea Horst Anne E. Russon Jordan Zlatev |
University of Southern California
McMaster University
Thomas Jefferson University
Roma Tre University
Lund University
University of Alberta
Catholic University of Portugal
European University Viadrina
York University
Lund University |
17-21.11.2021 | Symposium: Perspectives on Pantomime |
| 12 | Theresa Matzinger | University of Vienna | 10.12.2021-31.01.2022 | The Co-evolution of cooperation and linguistic alignment – A study design;
WORKSHOP: Basic data wrangling in R |
| 13 | Samuel Bennett | University of Stirling | 7.02-11.02.2022 | Workshop in Eyetracking and VR methods in research |
| 14 | Juan Olvido Perea García | National University of Singapore | 14.02-18.02.2022 | Workshop in quantitative methods for research in the humanities |
| 15 | Antonio Benítez-Burraco | University of Seville | 18.02.2022 | Human self-domestication and the emergence of present-day languages |
| 16 | Anna Becker,
Michał B. Paradowski |
Educational Sciences Department, University of Fribourg;
Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw |
11.03.2022 | Languages as (social) assemblages: Moving toward a rhizomatic understanding of multilingualism
From innovation diffusion to language acquisition: How social networks impact linguistic phenomena |
| 17 | Theresa Matzinger | University of Vienna | 27.04.2022 | Praat – practical workshop |
| 18 | Svetlana Kuleshova | Paris Nanterre University | 27.05.2022 | Comparing Pantomime- and Archaeology-based Models of Protolanguage: a New Perspective on the Concept of Protolanguage |
| 19 | Asifa Majid | Oxford University | 21.06-22.06.2022 | Consultation – Lab Visit |
| 20 | Juan Olvido Perea García | Leiden University | 23.10-23.11..2022 | https://cles.umk.pl/conferences-events/stepping-out-of-the-paradigm/
Transdisciplinary advances at the intersection of psychology, animal welfare and biology |
| 21 | Juan Olvido Perea García | Leiden University | 4.11.2022 | Exploring reactions to eye contact with different scleral pigmentation in pygmy marmosets (C. pygmaea) in a free viewing paradigm |
| 22 | Adam Przybyłek | Gdańsk University of Technology | 9.12.2022 | Action research in action |
| 23 | Lisa Bierbaumer | University of Vienna | 13.01.2025 | Deaf communication without a shared language: the role of mouthing in initial cross-signing interactions |
| 24 | Kristian Tylén | Aarhus University | 12.02-19.02.2023 | Evolution of early symbolic behavior |
| 25 | Alessandro Miani | University of Neuchâtel | 7.03-9.03.2023 | Introduction to Natural Language Processing – hands-on workshopNatural Language Processing to understand the conspiracy worldview |
| 26 | Jindřich Brejcha
Juan Olvido Perea García Vojtěch Fiala Dariusz Danel |
Charles University in Prague
National University of Singapore
Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, PAS Wrocław
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14.03-16.03.2023 | Developing an Ocular Morphology Project
Some interesting aspects of vertebrate coloration macroevolution Human eye as a visual stimulus: Effect of culture and ethnicity Sexual dimorphism in human ocular morphology Ocular morphology, gaze direction and trust Perceptions of marmosets with depigmented sclerae |
| 27 | Elizabeth Qing Zhang | Jiangsu Normal University | 31.03.2023 | A neurobiological perspective on the evolutionary origins of multimodal communication |
| 28 | Gareth Roberts
Elizabeth Qing Zhang Molly Flaherty Felicia Bisnath
Mara Moita, Ana Mineiro
Theresa Matzinger
Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska, Vojtech Fiala, Sławomir Wacewicz, Marek Placiński, Przemysław Żywiczyński, Michael Pleyer |
University of Pennsylvania
Jiangsu Normal University
Davidson College
University of Michigan
Catholic University of Portugal
University of Vienna
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń |
18.04-22.04.2023 | DILE2023 – Directions in Language Evolution
Competition for semantic resources in artificial languages; The Contribution of Chinese to Language Evolution Research; Roundtable discussion – THE INSTITUTIONAL FUTURE OF LANGUAGE EVOLUTION; Young Languages and Young Learners: Taking Child Learning Seriously; Deconstructing notions of morphological complexity: lessons from signed and spoken languages; Organization and annotation of signed corpora; Research on Sao Tome and Principe Sign Language Emergence; Roundtable discussion – DIVERSITY IN LANGUAGE EVOLUTION; When pointing doesn’t point any more: on the development of gesture in children; Mapping associations between phenotypic variation in the human eye and face perception: A pilot study; The adaptive significance of human irido-scleral colouration – project presentation; Interactional correlates of cooperation in corpus data – project presentation; Sign simplification in dyadic interaction; |
| 29 | Juan Olvido Perea Garcia | National University of Singapore | 28.04.2023
(~1.04-30.04.2023) |
Drivers of attention: Investigations into the effects of irido-scleral contrast on attention |
| 30 | Petr Tureček,
Maksymilian Pasternak |
Charles University in Prague;
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń |
26.05.2023 | Continuous models of cultural transmission;
Effective gesture use to help teaching English as a foreign language: Analyzing students’ cognitive engagement using oculography |
| 31 | Ines Adornetti & Francesco Ferretti,
Theresa Matzinger,
Stefan Hartmann |
Roma Tre University,
University of Vienna,
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
28.05-5.06.2023 | New tools and methods for studying narrative;
Beauty’s Mnemonic Power – Investigating the Recall of Attractive vs. Unattractive Words; Dimensions of productivity |
| 32 | Mara Moita, Rita Canaipa | Catholic University of Portugal | 12.01-21.01.2024 | Finding strategies to involve deaf signers in research; The Bayesian Brain Hypothesis and Pain Perception in Healthy and Chronic Populations; Signed Data Annotation – a Workshop with Mara Moita |
| 33 | Barbara Konat | Adam Mickiewicz University | 29.02-1.03.2024 | Advanced Sentiment and Emotion Analysis; |
| 34 | Andreas Seraphim | Academy of Athens | 22.03.2024 | The Body of Feelings: Nonverbal Communication, Emotions and Division in Ancient Public Speaking |
| 35 | Marcin Hajnowski | Neuroanalytics | 5.04.2024 | Ultra-fast eye-tracking in virtual reality |
| 36 | Konrad Juszczyk | Adam Mickiewicz University | 25.04-26.04.2024 | Multimod2024: hands-on workshop in analysing multimodal communication |
| 37 | Marcin Kilanowski | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń | 5.07.2024 | Everything you’d like to know about collaborating with the business sector |
| 38 | Mauricio Lacazette Pinto | Universidad Católica del Norte | 7.10-11.10.2024 | Exploring Networks with Universidad Católica del Norte |
| 39 | Mirek Manelski | Neurodio | 25.10.24 | XR R&D explained: everything you wanted to know but didn’t dare to ask |
| 40 | Ola Ćwiek, Šárka Kadavá | Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin | 6.11.2024 | Some preliminary ideas on the natural statistics of uni- and multimodal novel utterances;
Social interaction through the lenses of bodily effort |
| 41 | Ola Ćwiek, Šárka Kadavá | Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin | 8.11.2024 | What beats the bouba-kiki effect?
MOBILE MULTIMODAL LAB: An Open-Source, Low-Cost and Portable Laboratory for the study of Multimodal Human Behavior |
| 42 | Bogna Bylicka; Jonas Noelle | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń;
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen |
11.11-24.11.2024 | Intelligent Systems: the Intreplay of AI, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science;
The antonymic expression hypothesis: How facial expressions evolved into multifaceted components of multimodal language |
| 43 | Yannick Jadoul | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | 25.11-30.11.2024 | Talking seals and dancing birds: A computational approach to animal communication and rhythm;
Python and parselmouth workshop |
| 44 | Juan Olvido Perea Garcia | National University of Singapore | 6.12.2024 | WORKSHOP: Physiological measurements with Biopac and Acqknowledge |
| 45 | Kai Caspar | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf | 11.12-15.12.2024 | Look Past the Cooperative Eye Hypothesis – Reconsidering the Evolution of Human Eye Appearance |
| 46 | Marianne Gullberg | Lund University | 7.01.2025 | From Lund University Humanities Lab to Huminfra, a Swedish national research infrastructure |
| 47 | Peter Koutsos | Charles University Prague | 15.01-18.01.2025 | Should researchers imitate more? A new approach to categorising of acts of copying |
| 48 | Virginia Pallante | Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement | 28.01-31.01.2025 | An ethological perspective to whole-body communication in the aftermath of interpersonal conflict |
| 49 | Lewis Howe | University of Georgia (UGA) | 5.03-7.03.2025 | Hesitations and placeholders in bilingual grammars: A case study of Quechua-Spanish bilinguals |
| 50 | Aliki Papa | University of Bergen | 12.03-15.03.2025 | Cultural Transmission and Evolution of Mushroom Knowledge: Insights from Mycophobic Norway |
| 51 | Veslava Osińska et al. | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń | 21.03.2025 | User Experience in Virtual Gallery |
| 52 | Agnieszka Dębska | Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw | 28.03.2025 | From speaking faces to letters – searching for the beginning of the word form area in the brain |
| 53 | Raphaela Heesen | University of Zurich,
University of Konstanz |
1.04-5.04.2025 | Unravelling language origins through comparative communication research in humans and their closest ape relatives;
Applying advanced technologies to study emotions and communication in humans and other primates |
| 54 | Gizem Karaköse | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń | 11.04.2025 | Healing Borders, Healing Bodies:Understanding Immigrants’ Healthcare Experiences in Poland |
| 55 | Agnieszka Pawłowska-Mainville | University of Northern British Columbia | 25.04.2025 | Exchanging Knowledges in Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding and Linguistic Valuation |
| 56 | Michał Głuszkowski | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń | 09.05.2025 | The most important aspects of field research: on the basis of experience in different communities in Europe, Asia and America |
| 57 | Adam Schembri | University of Birmingham | 11-16.05.2025 | Morphology and iconicity in BSL – the SignMorph project [ONLINE] |
| 58 | Klaudia Karkowska | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń | 23.05.2025 | Speaking Bodies: A Unified Model of Multimodal Interaction |
| 59 | Petr Tureček | Charles University in Prague | 01-08.06.2025 | Is it time to talk about inorganic life? |
| 60 | Juan Olvido Perea-García
Mathias Boyer-Brosseau Fumihiro Kano
Karel Kleisner Aleksandra Ćwiek Vojtěch Fiala Jonas Nölle |
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz, Kyoto University Charles University in Prague Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń |
24-25.06.2025 | ANNUAL OCULAR MORPHOLOGY SEMINAR
AOMS4 – Measuring variety in primate ocular coloration – 24-25 June 2025, Bachotek, Poland https://cles.umk.pl/conferences-events/aoms4/ |
| 61 | Oliwia Kowalczyk | Collegium Medicum NCU in Toruń | 02.07.2025 | Let’s meet halfway: Building bridges across disciplines |
| 62 | Aleksandra Ćwiek | Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin | 24.10.2025 | Cross-linguistic iconicity and transparency in novel gestures |
| 63 | Emily Davis | CARTA – Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny, UC San Diego + Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń | 14.11.2025 | The Evolution of Linguistic Recursion and Center-Embedding |
| 64 | Michał Podczarski | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Centre for Academic Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer) | 21.11.2025 | From Humanities Research to Real-World Impact: Creating Value for Society and Business |
| 65 | Adam Lewartowski | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń | 28.11.2025 | A VR-based approach to training and measuring sensorimotor synchronization |
| 66 | Adam Izdebski | Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena + Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń | 5.12.2025 | A Sudden Explosion in the Middle of Nowhere: interdisciplinary approaches to the emergence of Poland |
| 67 | Rafał Toczko | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń | 12.12.2025 | Building a MSCA DN project network |
| 68 | Agata Cieślik | Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław, Department of Anthropology | 9.01.2026 | Empirical assessment of the evidential value of postural and movement features in forensic CCTV analysis [ONLINE] |
| 69 | Monika Kotus | independent AI consultant / AI adoption Lead | 21-22.01.2026 | WORKSHOP: AI training |
| 70 | Susanne Fuchs | Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) Berlin | 26.01.2026 | MultimOst colloquium kick-off: „MultimOst united: from past to present in studying the role of body in communication” [ONLINE] |
| 71 | Magdalena Formanowicz | SWPS University, Warsaw | 30.01.2026 | Words of Power: Linguistic Agency as a Force for Shaping and Shifting Group Dynamics |
| 72 | Dominik Antonowicz | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń | 13.03.2026 | Higher Education Research Group |
| 73 | Marta Białecka | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń | 20.03.2026 | CCC: How Parental and Grandparental Beliefs Shape Child Development in the 21st Century |
| 74 | Jacek Matulewski | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń | 17.04.2026 | Thoughtful Heart 4.0. What is the POD and POCD and how to predict it? |
| 75 | Weronika Trzmielewska | SWPS University, Warsaw | 24.04.2026 | Motor Behavior in Control Conditions and Mimicry-Liking Effects: A Meta-Analytic Synthesis [ONLINE] |
| 76 | Karolina Sumowska, Wojciech Duklas | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń | 8.05.2026 | Emotion Tracking in VR: Use Eye Tracking in Facial Expression Analysis |
| 77 | Theresa Matzinger | University of Vienna | 25.05-07.06.2026 | research stay and talk „The effect of aesthetic appeal on language evolution” |
| 78 | Virginia Pallante | NSCR Amsterdam | 29.05.2026 | research stay and talk „Consolation and behavioural mirroring in the aftermath of street fights” |
| 79 | Angelo Delliponti, Eliza Wessel | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań | 19.06.2026 | Workshop on OVA and IAT |
| 80 | Masih Shafiei
Jonas Nölle Myadagmaa Jaalkhorol
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Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Tübingen University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Charles University in Prague Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, PAS WrocławWrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciencesformer NCU postdocMongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulan Bator Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières Nicolaus Copernicus University in ToruńUniversity of Glasgow |
30.06-02.07.2026 | ANNUAL OCULAR MORPHOLOGY SEMINAR – AOMS5
https://cles.umk.pl/conferences-events/aoms5/ |
| 81 | Lucía Pitarch Ballesteros Yeray Sañudo Recacha Juan Olvido Perea García Paulo Vaz de Carvalho Agnieszka Sowińska Antoni Żyndul Monika Boruta Alessandro Miani Tammy Ho Lidia Wiśniewska-Nogaj Bogna Bylicka Roland Mühlenbernd Jan Nikadon Barbara Konat
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University of Zaragoza University of Las Palmas de Gran CanariaUCP Lisbon (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) Nicolaus Copernicus University in ToruńUniversity of Bristol
Aarhus University
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
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31.08-02.09.2026 | NLP & Medical Communication: Tools, Skills, Practical Applications.
https://cles.umk.pl/conferences-events/nlpmc/ |