Events | Center for Human Language & Development

2026: Language: Minds & Bodies

Panel 1

Language Across Borders

Emmanuel Jakob Auerbach Baidani, Xingyan Guo, Asma Rahimyar, Rifah Rafia Monir

Interdisciplinary

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Language & the Mind

India Pinhorn, Kelly Ma, William Oliver, Henry Whittlesey Schroeder

Cognitive Sciences

Panel 3

Language & Embodiment

Luke Ford, Liang-Ya Chang, Ellen Yates & Jared Fel, Joseph Lawal

Psychology

Panel 4

Language as Social Technology

Yaara Edelsburg, Preston Carter, Lucas Gutterman, Sondra Charbadze

Humanities

2025: Language & Method

Panel 1

Language & Meaning

Benjamin Haile, Mark Lindenburg, Nicholas McIntosh, Violetta Soboleva

Interdisciplinary

Panel 2

Language & Philosophy

Bryan Doniger, Taylor Koles, Kent Taylor, Nate Land, Robert Świstelnicki

Philosophy

Panel 3

Language & Development

Patricia J Brooks, Elizabeth S. Che, Chen Gao, C. Donnan Gravelle, Shan Jiang, Peter Johnson

Psychology

Panel 4

Language & Society

Jess Alexander, Meara Conner, Noah Kupper, Dalit Zakaim

Interdisciplinary

Panel 5

Language & The Clinic

Lorraine Afflitto, Nathan Ferguson, Hiji Nam

Interdisciplinary

2024: What is Language Good For?

Panel 1

Emotional Intelligence in Children With & Without DLD

Elizabeth S. Che, Patricia J. Brooks, & Nicole Zapparrata

CUNY Educational Psychology

Developmental Psychology

Panel 1

How Well Do We Really Understand Social Media?

Rebecca Dolgin, Simone Calbi, Jeffrey Huang, & Michael F. Schober

NSSR Psychology

Psycholinguistics

Panel 1

Longitudinal Reciprocal Effects of Emotion Regulation & Vocabulary Knowledge

Julia Moses

CUNY Educational Psychology

Developmental Psychology

Panel 2

Plato

Kasen Scharmann

CUNY Philosophy

Philosophy

Panel 2

Language & Thought

Ellen Burns

Columbia University Philosophy

Linguistics

Panel 2

Hegel - Recognition

Andrew Tessman

NSSR Philosophy

Philosophy

Panel 2

The Polyphonic Self

Noah Kupper

NSSR Philosophy

Philosophy

Panel 3

Playing with Metaphors

Kyle O'Dowd

NSSR Philosophy

Philosophy

Panel 3

Situation, Episode, & Event

Benjamin Haile

NSSR Philosophy

Philosophy

Panel 3

Mallarmé’s Theory of Language

Michele Morelli

Princeton University Comparative Literature

Literature

Panel 3

The Tower of Babel as a Theoretical Image

Jonathan A. Romero

Princeton University Spanish & Portuguese Studies

Cultural Studies

Panel 4

Alienated Language in Colonial Afterlives

Madeline MacLeod

Columbia University French

Literature

Panel 4

Analyzing Miriam Makeba's 1950-60s Musical Performances

Lauren Stockmon Brown

Columbia University English & Comparative Literature

Performance Studies

Panel 4

Language & Narrative Identity

Sara Rani Reddy

Columbia University French

French

Panel 4

The Language of Love & Excitable Speech

Sarah Sharp

NSSR Liberal Studies

Criticism

Panel 5

Dialogues at the Boundary: Rearticulating Subjecthood & Language in the Realm of Sex Robots

Kelsey Elizabeth Clough

Columbia University Anthropology

Anthropology

Panel 5

Decoding Chinese Typewriting: China's Quest for Linguistic Modernity

Tianran Qian

Parsons Design & Technology

History

Panel 5

Do Animals Speak Language?

Craig Stuart Lanza

Stony Brook University

Linguistics

Panel 5

Intersecting Speculative Linguistics & Immersive Art: Communicating with Bioluminescent Lifeforms

Arden Schager

Parsons Design & Technology

Digital Art

Poster

The Impact of Chunked Determiner Phrases on Verb Learning In Preschoolers

Huanhuan Shi

NYU Psychology

Developmental Psycholinguistics

Poster

Why It Doesn’t Stop at Pronouns: Gender Binary Language Within Psychological Research

Paige Griffith

NSSR Psychology

Critical Psychology

Poster

Redefining Burden

Savanna Daquila

NSSR Psychology

Psychology

Poster

EMLang

Ranger Liu Daquila

Parsons Design & Technology

Psychology

Poster

Learning a Language in Mongolia, China

Skylar Hou

Teachers College, Columbia University

Anthropology