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 October 2024 | 8:30 - 16:00 pm
- 2nd CRC Day: 3 April 2025 | 9:00 -17:00 pm
- 3rd CRC Day: 9 October 2025 | 9:00 -17:00 pm
- 4th CRC Day: 26 March 2026 | 9:00 -17:00 pm
CRC 1646 Colloquium (summer term 2026)
Organised by: Alon Fishman & René Nicholas
Invited Speaker:
- 16 April, 2026: Rasha Abdel Rahman (HU Berlin): The many facets of meaning processing during language production
- 7 May, 2026: Hans-Jörg Schmid (LMU München): What is creative to whom and why? Creativity in word-formation and phraseology against the backdrop of shared conventions and individual routines
- 18 June 2026: Iona Gessinger (Universität Saarbrücken): Tracing articular features in automatic speech regognition models
Past Colloquia
- Winter Term 2025/2026
CRC 1646 Colloquium (winter term 2025/2026)
Organised by: Sybilla Nikolow & Natalja Peiseler (Katja Politt).
Invited Speaker:
- 30 Oct, 2025: Esme Winter-Froemel (Würzburg)
- 6 Nov, 2025: Mathias Benedek (Graz)
- 13 Nov 2025: Joshua Hartshorne (Boston)
- 18 Dec, 2025: Hendrik De Smet (Leuven)
- 8 Jan, 2026: Muriel Norde (Berlin)
- 22 Jan, 2026: Stefan Hartmann (Düsseldorf)
- 5 Febr, 2026: Rafał Jończyk (Poznań)
- Summer Term 2025
CRC 1646 Colloquium (summer term 2025)
Organised by: Désirée Kleineberg & Maryam Mohammadi.
Invited Speaker:
- 24 Apr, 2025: Julia Büttner (LMU München): Pragmatic impairments and resources in patients with neurocognitive disorders
- 8 May, 2025: Philipp Wicke (LMU München): Computational creativity and generative storytelling
- 12 June 2025: Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales Madrid): Failed changes – and what to learn from them
- 26 June 2025: Maria Mercedes Piñango (Yale University): A multidimensional mental space for linguistic meaning. Lexical meanings as unbounded, heteromodal, algebraic cognitive structures
- 10 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:
- 14 Nov, 2024: Thomas Hoffmann (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt):The 5C model of linguistic creativity: A cognitive approach
- 21 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
- 28 Nov 2024: Amy Han Qiu (Gothenburg): Language use as a window into mental health: Insights from a data-analytic approach
- 5 Dec, 2024: Katalin Mády (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): The role of non-lexical units in spontaneous communication and in automatic speech recognition
- 9 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
- 16 Jan, 2025: Judith Tonhauser (University of Stuttgart): Projection without presupposition: A model for "know"
- 30 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:
- October 2024
- March 2025 | Report
- October 2025
- February 2026