Course schedule
The training course will take place on 4-6 August at the University of Tartu, and it will be followed by The 2nd European and the 5th Nordic Symposium of Multimodal Interaction on August 6-8, also at the University of Tartu. The course and the symposium will share the excursion day on Wednesday, and the Summer School participants are encouraged to attend the Symposium as part of the school.
- The course will feature two invited lecturers:
- Alan Cienki, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia
- Kirsten Bergmann, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Other teachers are:
- Jens Allwood, University of Gothenburg
- Elisabeth Ahlsen, University of Gothenburg
- Patrizia Paggio, University of Copenhagen and University of Malta
- Graham Wilcock, University of Helsinki
| Monday 4/8 | Tuesday 5/8 | Wednesday | Thursday 7/8 | Friday 8/8 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research Training Course Pointing to Gestures | Excursion to Alatskivi | The 2nd European and the 5th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication | |||
| 09-10 | Lecture: Alan Cienki | Lecture: Kirsten Bergmann | Symposium on Multimodal Interaction | Symposium on Multimodal Interaction | |
| 10-10.30 | Coffee | Coffee | |||
| 10.30-12 | Lecture: Alan Cienki | Lecture: Kirsten Bergmann | Paper Presentations | Paper Presentations | |
| 12-13 | Lunch | Lunch | |||
| 13-15 | Student presentations/exercises | Student presentations/exercises | Paper presentations | Paper presentations | |
| 15-15.30 | Coffee | Coffee | |||
| 15.30-18 | Lecture: Allwood & Ahlsen | Lecture: Paggio & Wilcock | Paper presentations | Closing | |
| 19- | Walking tour in Tartu | Welcome reception | Conference dinner | ||
The social programme will include a walking tour on Monday, an excursion and a reception on Wednesday, and a conference dinner on Thursday.
This event has been supported by the Graduate School of Linguistics, Philosophy and Semiotics of the University of Tartu; Department of Computer Science; Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics; Faculty of Philosophy; The ETIS project MINT (ETF8958); European Regional Development Fund through the Estonian Center of Excellence in Computer Science, EXCS
