08.06.2023Lecture by Dr. Pascal Gygax: «Inclusive language: a storm in a teacup or an answer to a real problem?»

Date and Time

Thursday 8 June 2023, 4:00pm

Location

UZH Main Building
Room KOL-G-212 EV
Rämistrasse 71
8006 Zurich
UZH-Maps

Registration

Registration: Network Diversity Meeting 8 June 2023

Program

• 4:00pm: Welcome & opening remarks (Dr. Christiane Löwe, Head of Office for Gender Equality and Diversity, UZH)

• 4:10pm: Lecture «Inclusive language: a storm in a teacup or an answer to a real problem? (Dr. Pascal Gygax, University of Fribourg)
• 5:30pm: Questions from the audience
• 6:00pm: Apéro riche

Pascal Gygax is head of the Psycholinguistics and Applied Social Psychology team at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). His work focuses on the way our brain processes the male grammatical mark, and how language creeps into our perception of gender.

Together with his colleagues Sandrine Zufferey and Ute Gabriel, he has just published a public-understanding-of-science book with the Éditions Le Robert, entitled «Le cerveau pense-t-il au masculin? Cerveau, langage et représentations sexistes» [Does the brain think in the masculine? Brain, language and sexists representations].