Christmas at the IAS - Guest Lecture from Professor Elizabeth Stokoe

Please join us for a celebration at the IAS this December.

We will have a festive lecture from Professor Elizabeth Stokoe from 2pm to 3pm, followed by some refreshments and informal gathering time to get into the festive spirit!

Professor Elizabeth Stokoe - How to speak human(ely)

Our daily lives are full of conversations, connections, and communications. Nothing much would happen without them. Yet despite all the practice, we are surprisingly bad at remembering, reporting on, simulating, or otherwise reproducing how we actually talk to each other. This matters when it comes to turning ‘conversation’ into processes, products, and services of all kinds, from communication training, policy, and assessment to chatbot and voice-based technologies. In this lecture, drawing on three strands of collaborative research that were all supported by the IAS, I will describe the work of conversation analysts in identifying and explaining how talk works and how research insights can be put to use with practitioners, industry, and policymakers. Along the way, I will show you what is at stake in understanding the very nature of our voices and the human and humane things we do with them. Including how one word can make children less selfish at Christmas.

Arrivals from 1.45pm for a 2pm start. For those joining in-person, refreshments will be served after the seminar from 3pm.

This event is hybrid format for the lecture portion only, please use the required booking button at the bottom of the page to choose either in-person or online lecture attendance.

Please note that in-person attendance is limit and requires advance booking to confirm numbers for catering services.