Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 17, 2013
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Monday, February 18, 2013
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
- February 20, 2013 -American Indian Writers Series: Rain Archambeau-Marshall
- February 20, 2013 -Janette Dinishak: “Autism & Neurodiversity”
- February 20, 2013 -Creative Writing Reading by Amaranth Borsuk
- February 20, 2013 -American Indian Writers Series: Rain Gomez
American Indian Writers Series: Rain Archambeau-Marshall
Rain L. Archambeau Marshall (Yankton/Choctaw) is an attorney and professor in Native American Environmental Studies at Humboldt State University. Formerly Attorney General for the Rosebud Sioux tribe, Rain is a American Civil Liberties Union Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellow. She will speak on civil rights in education. This project is co-sponsored by the American Indian […]
Janette Dinishak: “Autism & Neurodiversity”
Janette Dinishak’s work explores how Wittgenstein’s concept “noticing an aspect” can provide a frame for capturing and understanding commonly neglected phenomena that are characteristic of autistic experience. She also traces the inter-relations between scientific, cultural, and first-person perspectives on autism and how these perspectives interact in shaping our understanding of autism. Janette Dinishak is Visiting […]
Creative Writing Reading by Amaranth Borsuk
Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork (Slope, 2012), selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Books Prize, and, together with programmer Brad Bouse, of Between Page and Screen (Siglio, 2012), a book of augmented-reality poems. In 2010, her chapbook-length erasure, Tonal Saw, was published by The Song Cave. Her poems, essays, translations and […]
American Indian Writers Series: Rain Gomez
Rain Gomez won the 2009 First Book Award in poetry for Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory (Mongrel Empire Press, Fall 2012). A self described “TriRacially Fluffy and Fabulous” Louisiana Méstiza,poet, academic and musician.Her critical work, “Brackish Bayou Blood: Weaving Mixed Blood Indian Creole Identity Outside the Written Record,” appears in American Indian Culture and Research […]
Thursday, February 21, 2013
- February 21, 2013 -Joseph Sabbagh: "Specificity and Objecthood in Tagalog"
- February 21, 2013 -"Asian America: Triangulations about a Semisphere"
- February 21, 2013 -Living Writers Reading by Amaranth Borsuk
Joseph Sabbagh: "Specificity and Objecthood in Tagalog"
LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM Joseph Sabbagh (UT Arlington) Current analyses of the syntax of transitive constructions in Tagalog (Austronesian, Philippines) are constructed around the claim that the theme argument of a transitive verb, if it is semantically specific, must be realized as the subject of a ‘theme-subject’ clause. In reality, a specific theme may be realized in […]
"Asian America: Triangulations about a Semisphere"
The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies presents: Asian America: Triangulations about a Semisphere A creative presentation, Karen Tei Yamashita will read excerpts from her novel, I Hotel, forthcoming book of performances, Anime Wong, and the essay “Borges & I,” as an opportunity think about the past 45 years of Asian […]
Living Writers Reading by Amaranth Borsuk
Amaranth Borsuk is the author of Handiwork (Slope, 2012), selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Books Prize, and, together with programmer Brad Bouse, of Between Page and Screen (Siglio, 2012), a book of augmented-reality poems. In 2010, her chapbook-length erasure, Tonal Saw, was published by The Song Cave. Her poems, essays, translations and […]
Friday, February 22, 2013
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
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