AI and Bilingual Brains: What’s next?

Talk by Brendan Stuart Weekes, Professor Emeritus at Hong Kong University and Honorary Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Melbourne.

When: 6th October 3:15 pm.

Where: The Faculty Library of Social Sciences, Gothersgade 140, 1123 Copenhagen K, Auditorium 1.

Streaming: Meeting ID: 696 8059 0209. Passcode: 567503. Link to meeting. 

The talk is free and open to everyone, and is hosted by the Copenhagen Neuropsychology Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen.

Professor Brendan Stuart Weekes was the Foundation Chair of Communication Sciences and a Director of Laboratories in Communication, Development and Information Sciences in the Faculty of Education, University Hong Kong (HKU), and a Distinguished Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences (Research Grants Council of Hong Kong). He is now Professor Emeritus at HKU and Honorary Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Melbourne. He explores the cognitive and neuro-linguistic conceptualisation of multilingual and multimodal language use, with a focus on how literacy contributes to the research on Translanguaging. He advises on writing systems during UNESCO’s Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-32).