Past events

Explore the forefront of data-driven linguistic methodology! Here you can find past events, as well as resources. To access materials used in an event, click on the event and then click on ‘Resources’ in the left sidebar. Feel inspired? Join our international consortium and advance expertise in language research together. Click here to see the events you can participate in!

MEDAL Conference: New Challenges, Novel Approaches

Methodological Excellence in Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics: New challenges, novel approaches (MEDAL) conference will take place on 9-10 October 2025 at the University of Tartu, Estonia. This conference marks the culmination of the three-year international consortium project – MEDAL. We ...

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Outreach: Weekend van de Wetenschap

Weekend van de Wetenschap (‘Science Weekend’) is a national event for science education and outreach in the Netherlands that will take place on October 4th and 5th. In Nijmegen, the Donders CityLab-initiated Brain Museum will host a wide array of ...

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MEDAL Summer School in Computational Modelling

The 2025 summer school will take place in Birmingham between the 23rd and 27th of June. As part of the MEDAL Summer School in Computational Modelling, we’re excited to offer open-access plenary lectures streamed live on Zoom. Whether you’re a student, researcher, ...

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Open Science: Citizen Science and Open Education Resources

On April 15th at 10:00 NL / 11:00 EE / 09:00 UK we will have the final Open Science workshop! On popular demand, the themes of this workshop will be Citizen Science and Open Education Resources (OER), two very important ...

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MEDAL voor de middelbare school: Taal verandert!

This is an outreach event for secondary school students that will be held in Dutch, at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. Je hoort misschien wel eens dat taal verloedert, maar is dat wel echt zo? Taal verandert ...

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Privacy by Design in Linguistic Research

On April 8-9, Henk van den Heuvel (Radboud University) will lead the workshop “Privacy by Design in Linguistic Research”, offering PhD students practical exercises on GDPR and its impact on linguistic research. The workshop comprises three components: 1. an introduction ...

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Launch of the Centre for Multilingualism at the University of Tartu

The Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu is establishing a Centre for Multilingualism on the 4th of April to advance research and public engagement in multilingualism. To mark the opening, the Centre is hosting a ...

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MEDAL admin: Institutional visit Tartu-Nijmegen

On 25-28 March staff from Tartu will pay a visit to their partner institutes at Nijmegen: Radboud University and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Funded by the European Commission (EU Horizon Europe programme; 101079429) and UK Research and Innovation ...

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Soft skills: Behind the journal

Behind the scenes of an academic journal & The subtle art of responding to Reviewer 2 In this workshop, Dagmar Divjak (University of Birmingham, Professor in Cognitive Linguistics) will also give us a look at the behind-the-scenes of a journal. ...

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