Mellon Forum: Food Security
WebinarThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused great disruption to the production, distribution and consumption of food. Food security has taken on renewed importance for people, communities, and governments across the globe. This panel will address who gets included and left out of the ranks of the food secure, the forces and structural inequalities that stand in […]
Compositionality or Generalization?
via ZoomThe principle of compositionality says roughly that the meaning of a complex syntactic phrase is determined by the meanings of its constituent parts. When linguists seek compositional analyses of linguistic phenomena, what principles guide their investigations, and what higher-level goals are they actually pursuing? In this talk, I'll begin by trying to answer these questions, […]
Pensar en Presente: Cuerpo, Virus, Feminismo. Diamela Eltit and Rita Segato in Conversation
WebinarRita Segato (Argentine anthropologist, emerita Brasilia University) Segato es Anropóloga argentina, profesora emerita del Departamento de Antropología y de la Cátedra UNESCO de bioética de la Universidad de Brasilia. Autora de numerosos libros entre los que se encuentra Las estructuras elementales de la violencia (2003), La nación y sus otros (2007), Aníbal Quijano: textos de […]
Reading: Rabih Alameddine and Students in Creating Writing
via Zoom - Registration RequiredA reading by fiction writer Rabih Alameddine, author of five novels and a book of short stories whose sixth novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope, will be published by Grove in Spring/Summer 2021, and several seniors in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University. The C.K. Williams Reading […]
