Lecture by Dr. Pascal Gygax «Inclusive language: a storm in a teacup or an answer to a real problem?» (8 June 2023)

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].

Thursday 8 June 2023, 4:00pm