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SUMMARY:Crowdsourcing Research on Language Variation and Change in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Yu will present a collaborative research project examining large-scale variation and change in Cantonese in Hong Kong. Using crowdsourcing methodologies\, the project collects speech data and survey responses from a broad participant base\, alongside systematically designed metalinguistic judgment tasks. By integrating these data sources\, the project aims to provide a comprehensive account of contemporary linguistic variation and the mechanisms underlying language change. \nDr. Alan Yu is Chancellor’s Professor of Linguistics at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he directs the UC Berkeley PhonLab. His research focuses on speech processing and production\, and how they both shape and are shaped by the phonological systems of languages. He is also broadly interested in understanding how language variation arises and how sound change emerges over time. His work often focuses on Cantonese and Washo\, an endangered language of Northern California and Nevada. He is the\nauthor of A Natural History of Infixation (Oxford University Press) and has (co-)edited several volumes\, including The Handbook of Phonological Theory (2nd edition\, Wiley-Blackwell)\, Origins of Sound Change: Approaches to Phonologization (Oxford University Press)\, and The Life Cycle of Language: Past\, Present\, and Future (Oxford University Press). He also serves as co-General Editor of the journal Laboratory Phonology. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the Peter Rushton and Jacqueline Ku Endowed Memorial Fund for Chinese Languages and The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/crowdsourcing-research-on-language-variation-and-change-in-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Vivien Sansour - To Eat Alone is to Die Alone
DESCRIPTION:The Seeds of Resurgence cluster presents an artist talk with Vivien Sansour\, founder of the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library. Oftentimes when Palestinian farmers put seeds in the ground\, they mutter a quiet prayer\, “may we eat and may we feed others”. This and many other linguistically profound sayings provide a lens into a cultural design based on the idea that our survival as individuals is connected to the well-being and survival of our community. In this time together we will be invited to let go of our commitments to and preconceptions with “reality” in order to allow ourselves to imagine alternative universes that are inspired by nature and her daring imagination. From the real to the fantastical\, we will engage in a hybrid and intimate activity of being physically present with other living beings\, while channeling this co-presence into a writing activity that will bring us deeper clarities about who we have been\, who we are\, and whom we would like to be. \nVivien Sansour is the Founder and Executive Director of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library. As an artist\, researcher\, and writer\, she uses installations\, images\, sketches\, film\, soil\, seeds\, and plants to enliven old cultural tales in contemporary presentations and to advocate for seed conservation and the protection of agrobiodiversity as a cultural/political act. \nVivien founded the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library in 2014\, where she works with farmers in Palestine and around the world. As an extension of this project she created The Traveling Kitchen\, a social engagement project aimed at bringing to the forefront conversations about climate crisis\, food politics\, and the imagining of new worlds. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, the History of Art and Visual Culture Department\, and the Arts Research Institute \nAbu Samra wheat\, grown last year at Pie Ranch — sprung from seeds first collected by the Palestinian Heirloom Seed Library.\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/artist-talk-with-vivien-sansour-palestinian-heirloom-seed-library/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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