Ulf Liszkowski -
Presentations
Organized workshops and symposia
- Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (2011). Development of social cognition in the first two years of life (Invited Symposium; Organizer: U. Liszkowski).
- Jean Piaget Society (2010). Three- to 15-month-olds' social-interactional experiences and competencies across different cultural settings (U. Liszkowski).
- One-day symposium at the MPI f. Psycholinguistics & Donders Center for Cognition (2010). Entertaining Interacting Minds (Liszkowski, U. & Sebantz, N.).
- Two-day workshop at the MPI f. Psycholinguistics (2009). Cross-cultural research in infancy (U. Liszkowski & D. Salomo).
- International Conference on Infant Studies (2008). Social Cognition for Communication: Infants’ and Toddlers’ Production and Comprehension of Displaced and Iconic Reference (U. Liszkowski).
- 18. Tagung der Fachgruppe für Entwicklungpsychologie (2007). Early development of shared intentionality in the context of communication and joint actions (Rakoczy, H., Gräfenhain, M. & Liszkowski, U.).
- Jean Piaget Society (2005). Pointing, Communicative Intentions, and Reference to the Absent: Infant Communicative and Social-Cognitive Abilities (U. Liszkowski & M. Saylor).
- 17. Tagung der Fachgruppe für Entwicklungpsychologie (2005). Empathie, Kommunikation und Kooperation in der frühen Kindheit (U. Liszkowski, F. Warneken, H. Rakoczy).
- Kongress d. Dt. Gesellschaft für Psychologie (2004). Sozial-kognitive Fähigkeiten in der frühen Kindheit (F. Warneken, U. Liszkowski & H. Moll).
- International Conference on Infant Studies (2004). Infant Pointing: Function, Motives, and Social-Cognitive Abilities (U. Liszkowski & M. Carpenter).
Invited talks
2011
- Conference of the Society of Research in Child Development. Prelinguistic Comprehension and Production of Gestural Deictic Reference to Present and Absent Entities. In: The Development of Referential Understanding (Dr. D. Yurovsky).
- Conference of the Society of Research in Child Development. Infants Transmit Relevant Information to Spare Others' Mistakes. In: Multiple Perspectives on Children's Teaching (Dr. S. Kim).
- University of Trier (Prof. N. Baumann). Soziale Kognition und Motivation im Säuglingsalter.
- Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Spracherwerbsforschung und kindliche Sprachstörungen im deutschsprachigen Raum; GISKID (Prof. J. Siegmüller, Prof. A. Fox-Boyer & Dr. P. Marschik). Vorsprachliche Kommunikation in sozialen und kulturellen Kontexten. May.
- Frontiers in Linguistics, Acquisition and Multilingualism (Profs. L. Roberts, P. Muysken, C. Dimroth). Discussant to Lila Gleitman, Syntax and semantics and L1 acquisition. May.
- International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. Infants' interactions in different social contexts and cultural settings. In: Processes of infant/toddler-caregiver communicative patterns across cultural contexts (Prof. A. Kuntay). June.
- Workshop on multimodal communication, University of Bielefeld (Dr. Rohlfing). Prelinguistic communication and its socio-cultural emergence. July.
- Center for the study of mind in nature: Conference on children's metarepresentational and communicative development (Prof. R. Carston & Prof. D. Wilson). Tba. September.
- Fachtagung Entwicklungspsychologie, Erfurt, Germany. tba. September.
2010
- Humboldt University of Berlin (Prof. J. Asendorpf). Die kognitive und soziale Entwicklung menschlicher Kommunikation.
- University of Heidelberg, SDF (Dr. Barbara Schmiedtova). Vorsprachliche Grundlagen menschlicher Kommunikation.
- Conference of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. Prelinguistic foundations of human communication. In: Interactional foundations of language (Prof. K. M. Jaszczolt).
- University of Osnabrück (Prof. H. Keller). Sozial-kulturelle Entwicklung vorsprachlicher Kommunikation und sozialer Kognition.
- University of Cologne (Prof. E. Aschersmann). Vorsprachliche Kommunikation und soziale Kognition.
- University of Stirling (Dr. E. Hoicka). Social and cognitive complexities of prelinguistic communication.
- University of Konstanz (Prof. B. Renner). Sozial-kognitive und –motivationale Grundlagen vorsprachlicher Kommunikation.
2009
- Lancaster University (Prof. C. Lewis). Intentionality of infant pointing.
- Conference of the Society of Research in Child Development, Denver, USA. Communicating appropriately, following others' knowledge, intentions, and beliefs. In: Reasoning about false beliefs in toddlers (Dr. R. Scott).
- University of Amsterdam (Dr. C. Colonnesi). Communication and social cognition in infant pointing.
- Workshop on pragmatic development, Lyon. (Grosse, Matthews, Tomasello). Prelinguistic communication on a mental level.
- A Week of Gesture & Sign Language talks, MPI Nijmegen/ NGC (Ozyurek, Seyfeddinipur, Gullberg). Social, cognitive, and morphological differences in the emergence of pointing at 12 months.
- Acquisition Group, MPI Nijmegen (Pof. W. Klein). Psychological and social foundations of prelinguistic communication.
- BA-honours lecture, University of Leiden (Prof. Arie Verhagen). On usage and origins of prelinguistic communication.
- Lille University Conference: From gesture to sign: pointing in oral and signed languages. Social, cognitive & morphological differences in the emergence of pointing at 12 months.
- European Conference on Philosophy and Psychology, Budapest, Hungary. Prelinguistic infants - but not chimpanzees - have and understand referential intentions about invisible and displaced entities. In: Reference in the first few years of life (Prof. M. Allen-Preissler).
- Fachtagung Entwicklungspsychologie, Hildesheim, Germany. Kleinkinder korrigieren andere in Erwartung fehlerhafter Handlungen. In: Sozial-kognitive Entwicklung in der frühen Kindheit (Dr. M. Daum).
- University of Hamburg (Prof. Bamberg). Psychologische Grundlagen menschlicher Kommunikation im Säuglingsalter.
- University of Konstanz (Prof. Trommsdorff). Intentionalität vorsprachlichen Zeigens bei Kindern und Schimpansen.
2008
- Tilburg University (M. Malder, Prof. v.d. Vijver). Does culture influence prelinguistic communication?
- MPI Nijmegen (Prof. S. Levinson). Communication before Language.
- University College London (Prof. R. Breheny, R. Carston). Prelinguistic communication.
- Leiden University (Dr. Szilvia Biro). Social cognition and cooperation in infant communication.
- Conference of the International Society for the Study of Behavior and Development, Würzburg, Germany. In: The Development of Social Cognition in the First Year of Life (Dr. C. Thoermer).
- Conference of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, UK. Social and cognitive factors in the emergence of pointing. In: Pragmatic constraints and resource diversity in caregiver-infant interactions across cultures (Dr. A. Takada).
2007
- European Conference on Developmental Psychology (invited address). 12-month-olds’ pointing: Communication, social cognition and prosocial motivation.
- Workshop of the AHRC Culture and the Mind project (Prof. S. Laurence). Discussant of cross-cultural infancy research.
- Conference of the Society of Research in Child Development, Boston, USA. A new look at infant pointing. In: Complexities of 1-year-olds’ communication (Dr. M. Carpenter).
- Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College London, UK (Prof. G. Csibra). The connection between referential communication and prosocial motives.
- Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development (Max-Planck-Society). Communication before language.
2006
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The Nijmegen Lectures (Dr. T. Stivers). Discussant to Prof. P. Bloom, But is it art?
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University of Saarbrücken, Germany (Prof. G. Aschersleben). Soziales Verhalten – soziale Kognition. Die Rolle der Zeigegeste in der frühkindlichen Entwicklung
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Workshop on Gesture in Language Development, University Groningen, Nl (Dr. M. Gullberg). Infant pointing: New evidence for prelinguistic communication and social-cognitive understanding.
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Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Nl (Dr. P. Brown). Cross-cultural aspects of Mother-Infant interactions.
2005
- European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Tenerife, Spain. Twelve-month-olds point to provide information for others. In: Language learning and early interaction: a symposium in honour of Luigia Camaioni (Prof. M. Harris).
- Jean Piaget Society, Vancouver, Canada. Motives of pointing in human 12-month-olds. In: Assessing Social Understanding in the Communicative Interactions of Human Infants and Non-Human Primates (Dr. T. Racine).
- Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Nl (Dr. P. Brown). Preverbal communication in ontogeny.
- University of Bristol, UK (Prof. B. Hood). Infant pointing, communication, and social cognition - current research and future directions.
2004
- Workshop on Gestural Communication in Human and Non-Human Primates, Leipzig, Germany (Prof. C. Müller, Dr. K. Liebal & Dr. S. Pika). Motives and social-cognitive abilities in infant pointing.
- Wenner-Gren Symposium 134., Duck, North Carolina, USA (Prof. S. Levinson). Infant pointing at twelve months: communicative goals, motives, and social-cognitive abilities.
- Wolfgang-Köhler Zoo, Leipzig, Germany (Dr. B. Hare). Social cognition and communication.

