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CANCELLED – Linguistics Colloquia: Kathryn Davidson

Humanities 2, Room 259

Kathryn Davidson (Harvard) - Title TBD Kathryn Davidson is an assistant professor in Linguistics at Harvard University where her research investigates the unique capacity that we have to understand an infinite number of sentences that we’ve never encountered before (semantics), how we incorporate contextual information into these meanings (pragmatics), and how we ever learn to […]

Student Meet and Greet with Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam

Humanities 2, Room 259

Join us to meet and talk with the award-winning NPR journalists Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam. The journalists have covered a wide range of questions concerning the Middle East, Islam in America, race, culture, and American extremism. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided.   Leila Fadel is currently a national correspondent for NPR, covering […]

Imagining Otherwise: Resisting and Queering Racial and Gender Violence

Humanities 2, Room 259

A Philosophy and MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) sponsored Colloquium. Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Philosophy and the Humanities Institute This talk will explore how gender violence intersects with racist and transphobic violence and how those intersections are erased or distorted in public discourse. Professor Medina will examine the communicative dysfunctions that exist around gender […]

Balancing Fair Use and Student Access in Selecting Course Texts: A Workshop for Instructors

Humanities 2, Room 259

  About the workshop: Understanding how to balance equitable access to course texts with our ethical and legal responsibility to uphold the values of intellectual property can often be challenging. This workshop will help faculty navigate the complexities of copyright and fair use and focus on best practices and resources for choosing course texts for […]

Monterey Bay Applied Linguistics Symposium

Humanities 2, Room 259

Symposium Program 9:00AM- Opening Remarks: Bryan Donaldson, Mark Amengual, Kimberly Adilia Helmer 9:30-10:00 – Thor Sawin (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): From Serial Monolingualism to Polylingualism in the Field: Policy and Perspective Challenges in a Large NGO 10:00-10:30 - John Hedgcock (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Obstacles and Opportunities in Cultivating Teacher Language Awareness 10:30-11:00 […]

2nd Annual Grad Student Conference: “Citizenship in Flux: Migration and Exclusion in World History, 1750-2019”

Humanities 2, Room 259

The rise of nativist or nationalist movements in many countries and the closing of borders to migrants seeking refuge from persecution, war, and violence calls into question the world historical context of migration, borders, and political belonging. This conference queries citizenship and borders across time and region to make sense of their implications for citizens, […]

Breanne Fahs: “Burn it Down: Firebrand Feminism and the Legacy of Second-Wave Radical Feminism”

Humanities 2, Room 259

Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her most recent book is Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore. This colloquium will consider the historical impact of second-wave radical feminism and its impact on contemporary iterations of collective forms of resistance, […]

Nadine Theiler: “A Unified Semantics for Additive Particles”

Humanities 2, Room 259

English has several additive particles, which differ in their distribution. One of these is also, a common choice to signal additivity in assertions and polar questions, (1a-b). It has been suggested that this particle can’t appear in a wh-question without triggering a so-called show-master interpretation (Umbach, 2012), in which the speaker already has a certain […]