Events
Week of Events
Every Protection: Exploring Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Jewish Pale of Settlement
Until 1917, most Jews of the Russian Empire were restricted to a region called the Pale of Settlement, where they created their own distinctive folk culture. In 1914 the writer, socialist revolutionary, and ethnographer, Sh. An-sky, produced a massive Yiddish ethnographic questionnaire to
Living Writers Reading Series: Jaimy Gordon
The Living Writers Reading Series presents Jaimy Gordon. Jaimy Gordon's "fantasy" novel, Shamp of the City-Solo, gathered an underground following, and is regarded as one of the finest comic novels in the last fifty years. Her most recent book, Lord of Misrule, won the National Book Award for fiction. Jaimy Gordon is Professor of English […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Pranav Anand, “Assessing the pragmatics of experiments: The case of scalar implicature”
Pranav Anand "There is a growing impetus to examine pragmatic phenomena experimentally. Potentially complicating these investigations is the way in which the experimental environment itself shapes participants’ models of extra‐linguistic context. A spate of recent results collectively suggest that the computation of scalar implicature may be sensitive to a host of factors: task structure, social […]