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Sunday, March 27, 2011
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Monday, March 28, 2011
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
- March 29, 2011 -Michael Wagner: “The Locality of Allomorph Selection and Production Planning”
Michael Wagner: “The Locality of Allomorph Selection and Production Planning”
CrISP is proud to present: Michael Wagner (McGill University): "The Locality of Allomorph Selection and Product Planning" English -ing varies between two phonologically distinct allomorphs, and . Across different varieties of English this variation has been shown to depend on gender, speaking style, and socio-economic factors (Fischer, 1958; Labov, 1972; Trudgill, 1972). Phonological context has also […]
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
- March 31, 2011 -Colin Koopman: “Pleasure and Parrhesia in Foucault’s Self-Transformative Ethics”
- March 31, 2011 -Jodi Magness: “The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls”
Colin Koopman: “Pleasure and Parrhesia in Foucault’s Self-Transformative Ethics”
Michel Foucault's late writings on ethics have been subjected to severe scrutiny by a host of critics. I suggest that these criticisms have for the most part been misguided because of a meta-ethical error too often relied upon in interpretations of Foucault. I offer a distinction between ethical 'orientations' and ethical 'commitments'. Rather than offering substantive normative content, I argue, Foucault's […]
Jodi Magness: “The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls”
In 1946-47, Bedouins found the first Dead Sea Scrolls in a cave near the site of Qumran, by the shore of the Dead Sea. Eventually remains of over 900 scrolls were discovered in 11 caves surrounding Qumran. The scrolls, which date to about the time of Jesus, were deposited in the caves by members of […]
Friday, April 1, 2011
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
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