Internal Events
CRC Days
All researchers from CRC 1646 come together once a semester to discuss current research updates and the state of the overall research agenda.
- 1st CRC Day: 1. Oct 2024 | 8:30 - 16:00 pm
- 2nd CRC Day: 3. April 2025 | 9:00 -17:00 pm
- 3rd CRC Day: 13. Oct 2025 | 9:00 -17:00 pm
CRC 1646 Colloquium (winter term 2025/2026)
Organised by: Sybilla Nikolow & Natalja Peiseler (Katja Politt).
Invited Speaker:
• 30th Oct, 2025: Esme Winter-Froemel (Würzburg)
• 06th Nov, 2025: Mathias Benedek (Graz)
• 13th Nov 2025: Joshua Hartshorne (Boston)
• 18th Dec, 2025: Hendrik De Smet (Leuven)
• 08th Jan, 2026: Muriel Norde (Berlin)
• 22th Jan, 2026: Stefan Hartmann (Düsseldorf)
• 05th Febr, 2026: Rafał Jończyk (Poznań)
Citizen Science Lunch
The Citizen Science Lunches are held monthly by Project Ö to talk about current citizen science activities in the CRC. To the corresponding citizen science platform „Sprachschmiede“ (link coming soon).
Past Colloquia
- Summer Term 2025
CRC 1646 Colloquium (Summer Term 2025)
Organised by: Désirée Kleineberg & Maryam Mohammadi.
Invited Speaker:
• 24th Apr, 2025: Julia Büttner (LMU München): Pragmatic impairments and resources in patients with neurocognitive disorders
• 08th May, 2025: Philipp Wicke (LMU München): Computational creativity and generative storytelling
• 12th June 2025: Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales Madrid): Failed changes – and what to learn from them
• 26th June 2025: Maria Mercedes Piñango (Yale University): A multidimensional mental space for linguistic meaning. Lexical meanings as unbounded, heteromodal, algebraic cognitive structures
• 10th July, 2025: Joshua Hartshorne (MGH Institute Boston): 10,000 experiments in 1. Scaling up cognitive science with citizen science and viral quizzes
- Winter Term 2024/2025
CRC 1646 Colloquium (winter term 2024/2025)
Organised by: Daniel Duran & Alon Fishman.
Invited Speaker:
• 14th Nov, 2024: Thomas Hoffmann (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt):The 5C model of linguistic creativity: A cognitive approach
•21st Nov, 2024: Nicholas Asher (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse): Attention is not all that you need: Some limits to learning for large language models and how maybe to fix them
• 28th Nov 2024: Amy Han Qiu (Gothenburg): Language use as a window into mental health: Insights from a data-analytic approach
• 5th Dec, 2024: Katalin Mády (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): The role of non-lexical units in spontaneous communication and in automatic speech recognition
• 09th Jan, 2025: Markus Werning (Ruhr University Bochum): How context modulates the lexicon in online sentence meaning composition: A Bayesian pragmatic model of EEG components in probabilistic predictions
• 16th Jan, 2025: Judith Tonhauser (University of Stuttgart): Projection without presupposition: A model for 'know
• 30th Jan, 2025: Elena Smirnova (University of Neuchâtel): Patterns of productivity and creativity in the siachronic sevelopment of German noun-participle compounds
RTG Internal Workshops
- Writing Retreats
Past Writing Retreats:
- Writing Retreat October 2024
- Writing Retreat March 2025 | Report
- Writing Retreat October 2025