Events
Week of Events
Sunday, January 10, 2016
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Monday, January 11, 2016
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
- January 13, 2016 -Elena Gapova: "Suffering and the Soviet Man's Search for Meaning: The "Moral Revolutions" of Svetlana Alexievich"
Elena Gapova: "Suffering and the Soviet Man's Search for Meaning: The "Moral Revolutions" of Svetlana Alexievich"
The Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Elena Gapova Svetlana Alexievich, the recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, is known for her unique literary method that blurs the genres of oral history and documentary prose. For each book, she conducts, over the period of five to ten years, between 500 and 700 interviews […]
Thursday, January 14, 2016
- January 14, 2016 -Socialism and Postsocialism Roundtable Discussion with Elena Gapova
- January 14, 2016 -Living Writers: Alex Rivera
Socialism and Postsocialism Roundtable Discussion with Elena Gapova
The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989, marking the ostensible end of the socialist project and the triumph of neoliberal economic policies around the globe. The result has been widespread de-industrialization, unemployment, ethnic conflict, poverty, and proliferating sex-traffic in the formerly socialist world, which now in many ways exemplifies trends toward stagnation and crisis that affect […]
Living Writers: Alex Rivera
Alex Rivera is a filmmaker who, for the past fifteen years, has been telling new, urgent, and visually adventurous Latino stories. His first feature film, Sleep Dealer, a science-fiction feature set on the U.S./Mexico border, won awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art, […]
Friday, January 15, 2016
- January 15, 2016 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: James Beneda
- January 15, 2016 -Sharon Inkelas: “The A-map model: Articulatory reliability in child-specific phonology”
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: James Beneda
James Beneda "The Morally Incoherent Indoctrination of the American Soldier in Iraq: An Institutional Theory of Traumatic Experience" I take up an issue that most of us cannot help but see as a problem of individual psychology and restate it in terms of institutional politics and political ideologies. Starting from cognitive sociology and recent clinical research that reframes post-traumatic […]
Sharon Inkelas: “The A-map model: Articulatory reliability in child-specific phonology”
This talk, based on joint work with Tara McAllister Byun and Yvan Rose, addresses a phenomenon of longstanding interest: the existence of child-specific phonological patterns which are not attested in adult language. We propose a new theoretical approach, termed the A(rticulatory)-Map model, to account for the origin and elimination of child-specific phonological patterns. Due to […]
Saturday, January 16, 2016
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