Lacerda 120. The Fifth International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research

Photo: © Arquivo Familiar Paulo de Lacerda

These workshops have been organised since 2015 and to celebrate the 120th anniversary of Lacerda’s birth in 2022, for the first time one of the workshops was dedicated to the memory of a phonetician: Armando de Lacerda.
Funded and organised by the Institute of Contemporary History of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculty of Social and Human Sciences – University of Évora unit; University of Porto Rectory; University of Porto Linguistics Centre; Ferraz de Lacerda, Lda; International Speech Communication Association; co-funded by the International Phonetic Association; University of Coimbra Science Museum; University of Coimbra Faculty of Arts.

Exposição e encontro “Lacerda 120. 5th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research”, Reitoria da Universidade do Porto e Ferraz de Lacerda, Lda., Porto.
Exhibition and meeting “Lacerda 120. 5th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research”, University of Porto Rectory and Ferraz de Lacerda, Lda., Porto.
The image shows the first public display of the “Lacerda chromograph” since the closure of the Coimbra Experimental Phonetics Laboratory in 1979 (instruments lent by the University of Coimbra Science Museum for the exhibition held in association with the “Lacerda 120” meeting. Fifth International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research”, Porto, May 2022.). RTP report:  Investigadores evocam Armando Lacerda a 120 anos do seu nascimento (rtp.pt) Photo: © Renato Roque