Events
Week of Events
Sunday, November 27, 2011
No events on this day.
Monday, November 28, 2011
No events on this day.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
- November 29, 2011 -Jennifer Derr, Talk title TBA
Jennifer Derr, Talk title TBA
The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. Jennifer Derr has her B.S. from Stanford University; M.A., Georgetown University; Ph.D., Stanford. Areas of academic interest include modern Middle Eastern history, African history, Ottoman Empire, early Islamic history. Fellow, Society of Junior Fellows in British Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2009–10); James […]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
- November 30, 2011 -Herman Gray, “At the Limit of Representation: Neoliberalism, Media and African American Visibility”
- November 30, 2011 -Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther: “Abstraction, the Abstract, and Abstractionism: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives”
- November 30, 2011 -Alide Cagidemetrio: “Choosing Venice: Seduction, Henry James, and The Wings of the Dove”
Herman Gray, “At the Limit of Representation: Neoliberalism, Media and African American Visibility”
Herman Gray With African Americans as the primary example, Professor Gray probes the social, intellectual, and political investment in the cultural politics of recognition and visibility in the context of neoliberalism, suggesting that with neoliberalism we have reached the limit of such investments. Looking beyond this investment in representation, recognition and visibility, he examines what […]
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther: “Abstraction, the Abstract, and Abstractionism: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives”
Concepts, models, and theories; words, propositions, and language; are typically understood as abstract representations and abstract maps. The abstract allows us to navigate tentatively and successfully through the concrete world with which we interact as laymen and scientists; adults and infants. How does abstraction take place? What is the abstract, and what is it used […]
Alide Cagidemetrio: “Choosing Venice: Seduction, Henry James, and The Wings of the Dove”
Professor Alide Cagidemetrio of the University of Venice will speak on “Choosing Venice: Seduction, Henry James, and The Wings of the Dove” Professor Cagidemetrio will offer some observations about details in the novel, 19th century Venice, James’s biography, and some literary themes such as don juanism, thinking to reinstate curiosity as a legitimate part of […]
Thursday, December 1, 2011
No events on this day.
Friday, December 2, 2011
- December 2, 2011 -Karen Jesny: “The Interaction of Markedness Factors in Child Consonant Cluster Acquisition”
Karen Jesny: “The Interaction of Markedness Factors in Child Consonant Cluster Acquisition”
Karen Jesny Consonant clusters introduce multiple sources of markedness that must be mastered in the course of phonological acquisition. This talk considers how segmental markedness, sonority, and cluster status interact in the acquisition process. Two case studies are presented. The first, drawing on data from the English-acquiring child Trevor (Compton & Streeter 1977, Pater 1997) […]
Saturday, December 3, 2011
No events on this day.