Stand-up Science

Een podium, een microfoon en een hele lading inspirerende mini-lezingen, demonstraties en workshops – allemaal rondom het InScience-thema van dit jaar: taal. Kom naar Café LUX op zaterdag- en zondagmiddag, grijp een draadloze koptelefoon en luister naar onze Stand-up Science.  

In this block all Talks are in English. 

13:00 PREMIERE CHOOSE YOUR SOUND  A crash course in film making, tons of enthusiasm and four weeks time. Together with Radboud University, InScience developed a course that challenged students to present science through film. Rajat Ravi Rao was one of the participants. He made the film Choose Your Sound about the research of Yamil Vidal (Donders Institute). Join us in watching the film for the first time. And hear from Rajat what it was like to make his first film.  

13:20 ONE CONVERSATION, MULTIPLE LANGUAGES – NOT SO WEIRD IN MANY PLACES OUTSIDE OF EUROPE   
Humans have the fascinating ability to use multiple languages in one conversation, or even one statement. From a European perspective, this is often stigmatised. But in many other parts of the world, people grow up speaking many languages and switching between them is common. Carmen Parafita Couto (Leiden University) and Enoch O. Aboh (University of Amsterdam) study code-switching in multilingual countries like Benin and Belize. What can it teach us about the human ability to process language?   

13:40 NEUROBIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE  

Stephanie Forkel (Donders Institute) is fascinated by the human brain. And she finds ways to make beautiful images to support her stories and research. Join her and learn about the neurobiology of language.  

14:00 DISCOVERING THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE   How did human language evolve? Despites centuries of research, this question remains partly unanswered. Humans are probably the only species who articulate long and complex sequences of sounds into units that can have many meanings. Is it possible that our ancestors expressed themselves solely through gestures? Sárka Kadavá (Donders Institute) leads the Language Evolution Game during InScience. She will share insights on why we communicate the way we do today.   

14:15 WHY THIS SCIENTIST LETS DUTCH PEOPLE LISTEN TO CHINESE AUDIOBOOKS   
Qifei Wang (Donders Institute) invites (non-Chinese-speaking) Dutch and German people to lay in an MRI for an hour to listen to Mandarin Chinese audiobooks. That might sound like it doesn’t make any sense, but Qifei tries to figure out if our brains can make some sense out of these unknown syllables. He’ll tell us all about how this research works, and what he hopes to study.