2008

• Dissemination activity "New Directions in Historical Linguistic"
  12-14 May 2008, Lyon, France
  For more information click here.
  
  
• Dissemination activity "Us and Them: Modeling past genetic, linguistic, and cultural boundaries"
  15-17 May 2008, Bordeaux, France
  For more information click here.
  

2007

• OMLL Final Conference
  12-14 December 2007, Rome, Italy
  
  
• Workshop “Migrations”
  5 -7 September 2007, Porquerolles, France
  
  
• OMLL Result  Presentation
  

  “Human Language Dynamics” at the “International School on Semiotic Dynamics, Language and Complexity”
  

  14-19 July 2007, Erice, Italy
  
  

• Workshop “VOCOID" VOcalisation, Communication, Imitation and Deixis in infant and adult human and non-human primates”
  14-16 May 2007, Grenoble, France

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2006

• Workshop “Language and Genes in East Asia/Pacific”
  11-13 December 2006
  
  

  This workshop was supported by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCKF) and hosted by the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) in Uppsala, Sweden.
  Participating CRPs: JA07, JA08, JA21, JA27, JA28, JA31
  
  Programme click here

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2005

• Workshop “Exploring the potential of Eco-cultural Niche Modelling for reconstructing the geography of past human populations"
  

  Local organisers: Francesco d’Errico, Guido Barbujani, Robert A. Foley, Alf Hornborg
  Auditorium of the Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac
  Participating CRPs: JA03, JA04, JA06, JA13, JA21
  22-26 September 2005

Programme click here

• Workshop "Languages and genes: recent work and emerging results"
  22-25 September 2005 
  
  Local organisers: Laurent Sagart, François Jacquesson
  Centre Paul Langevin, Aussois 
  Participating CRPs: JA03, JA07, JA18, JA21, JA27, JA31
  
  
• Workshop "Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Human Communication"
  2-4 June 2005
  
  Local organisers : Guido Barbujani, Luciano Fadiga, Marina Nespor
  Università di Ferrara, Sala dell’Arengo, Piazza Municipale
  Participating CRPs: JA03, JA05, JA07, JA13, JA15, JA20, JA27, JA33
  
  Programme click here 
  
  

• Workshop "Early Word Segmentation: a Cross-Linguistic Approach Taking Advantage of Europe’s Linguistic Diversity" 
  25 -26 February 2005
  
  Local organiser: Thierry Nazzi
  Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielle, Paris
  Participating CRPs: JA05, JA12, JA20, JA26, JA30
  
  Programme and abstracts click here

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2004

• Virtual Workshop  "What Do Mirror Neurons Mean? Theoretical Implications of the Discovery of Mirror Neurons”   
  15 November  2004 -13 March  2005
  
  Local organiser: Gloria Origgi
  Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
  Participating CRPs: JA02, JA05, JA13, JA15
  
  
• Workshop "Evolving communication: from action to language. An "implicit vs. explicit" cognitive and pragmatic perspective."
  13-14 May 2004 at Graduate College Santa Chiara; Siena IT
  
  Local organiser: Cristiano Castelfranchi / Fabio Paglieri (JA02)
  Università di Siena / ISTC-CNR, Roma
  Participating CRPs: JA02, JA05, JA10, JA21, (JA33)
  
  
• First OMLL Conference
  Leipzig, 3-6 April 2004
  
  

  The first OMLL conference was held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Twenty international Collaborative Research Projects representing ca. 200 scientists participating in the programme presented the latest results of their research. Presentations addressed the evolution of language and the diversity of languages from a variety of fields, such as genetics, linguistics, palaeo-anthropology, archaeology, neuroscience, computer science and psychology.
  
  

  
  Programme: click here
  List of participants: click here

The networking and coordination of the OMLL Programme are funded through the EC Sixth Framework Programme, under Contract no. ERAS-CT-2003-980409.

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