Events
Week of Events
Sunday, November 12, 2017
No events on this day.
Monday, November 13, 2017
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
- November 15, 2017 -On Barak, “Against Energy: Provincializing Thermodynamics between Aden and Port Said”
- November 15, 2017 -Digital Humanities: Intro to Scalar Workshop
On Barak, “Against Energy: Provincializing Thermodynamics between Aden and Port Said”
Event Photos: Despite feigning perpetuity, "energy" is a child of its time, the nineteenth century. Born from the related challenges of steam engineering and British imperialism its legacies still haunt and limit our thinking on matters ranging from fossil fuels to race, from labor to the underground. This talk seeks to situate the emblematic energy […]
Digital Humanities: Intro to Scalar Workshop
Online Publishing and Non-Linear Argumentation This introductory workshop is designed to let you start using Scalar, an online publishing platform. The workshop will focus on adding media content to Scalar and creating non-linear relationships. This is a hands on opportunity: bring ideas and content to the workshop. You will leave ready to explore and build on […]
Thursday, November 16, 2017
- November 16, 2017 -Reading Seminar with On Barak, “Strands of Tentacular Thinking”
- November 16, 2017 -Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Dorianne Laux
Reading Seminar with On Barak, “Strands of Tentacular Thinking”
The "Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene" Research Cluster invites faculty and graduate students to a reading seminar with On Barak, Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Barak is a historian of the modern Middle East, specializing in the introduction of science and technology into non-Western settings. He is the […]
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Dorianne Laux
Event Photos: The Eighth Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading presented by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Living Writers Series featuring Dorianne Laux Thursday November 16, 2017 at 5:30pm Poet Gary Young, will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives […]
Friday, November 17, 2017
- November 17, 2017 -Linguistics Colloquium: Brian Dillon
Linguistics Colloquium: Brian Dillon
The Department of Linguistics presents: Brian Dillon "Process and representation in morphosyntactic processing: A psychophysical approach using Signal Detection Theory" Abstract: Intuitive acceptability judgments have long formed the empirical foundation of syntactic and (to a lesser extent) psycholinguistic theories (Schütze, 1996). Despite their centrality, there remain many open issues in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of acceptability judgment data. […]
Saturday, November 18, 2017
- November 18, 2017 -SPOT (Syntax-Prosody in OT) Workshop
SPOT (Syntax-Prosody in OT) Workshop
Event Photos: This is a one-day IHR-sponsored workshop (Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017), called SPOT ("Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory", which is part of a research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic candidate sets from syntactic structure. The syntax-prosody interface is the study of how syntactic (grammatical) structures are mapped onto the prosodic […]