30.04.2026

Closing Colloquium of the SFB 1102, May 11-12, 2026

PROGRAM

Campus UdS: Innovation Center (building A2.1) + Aula (A3.3)

Monday, 11 May 2026

12:45 Registration (A2.1, room 3.03)

13:00 Words of Welcome (A2.1, room 3.05)
– Elke Teich, Speaker SFB 1102
– Wolfgang Förster, State Secretary, Saarland Ministry of Finances and Science
– Ludger Santen, UdS President
– Nine Miedema, Dean, UdS Faculty of Philosophy

13:45 “SFB 1102: Past, Present, Future“, Elke Teich & Matthew Crocker (Speakers SFB 1102)

14:15 “Subtle signals: The power of non-lexical cues for signalling discourse structure”, Merel Scholman (Project B2)

15:00 “On gestural alignment”, Marc Swerts (Mercator Fellow)

15:45 Poster Session + Coffee break
– Area A: room 3.04
– Area B: 3rd floor foyer
– Area C & Transfer project T1: room 3.01

17:00 “Referential Retrieval and Integration in Language Comprehension: An Electrophysiological Perspective”, Harm Brouwer and Noortje Venhuizen (Projects A1 and C3)

17:45 Group picture (stairs on ground floor, 0.07)

Reception and Dinner (Aula, building A3.3)
Music by Roman Reznic Jazz Trio

Tuesday, 12 May 2026

09:30 Registration (room 3.03) and Welcome (room 3.05), Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb (Project B1)

09:45 “On explaining language universals”, Annemarie Verkerk (Project C7)

10:30 “Information Density in Language and Language Models”, Michael Hahn (Associated Member)

11:15 Coffee break

11:45 Panel: “Beyond rationality”, Matthew Crocker, Alexander Koller, Elke Teich, Michael Hahn, Annemarie Verkerk, Harm
Brouwer, Noortje Venhuizen, Merel Scholman, Vera Demberg (moderator)

13:00 Closing remarks and lunch