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Past Lecture Events

December 7, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

On the origins of Cikunda, “a language without a land” (Presentation of the OriKunda project)

Rozenn Guérois, LLACAN (African Languages and Cultures Laboratory)

Program in Linguistics

November 30, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Experiments in Euphemism Detection

Anna Feldman, Montclair State University

Program in Linguistics

November 1, 2022 · 5:00 pm6:30 pm · Room N107, School of Architecture

Getting to the Point. Genealogies of the Analog Code

Wolfgang Schäffner, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Graduate Program in Media and Modernity

September 14, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

“Us” as “one”: First person plurals as impersonals in Mayan

Carol Rose Little, University of Oklahoma

Program in Linguistics

March 30, 2022 · 12:00 pm1:20 pm · Zoom

Algerian Letters – Unlearning Short Histories

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Brown University

IHUM

March 23, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 100 Jones Hall

LE PHILOSOPHE ET LE CHARLATAN. Les ambivalences de la publicité au siècle des Lumières.

Antoine Lilti, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Department of French and Italian

March 3, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Clipping in and out of the Trenches: Black Radicalism and the Archive

Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia University

European Cultural Studies; Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council

February 16, 2022 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Form and Meaning in a Sign Language Lexicon

Naomi Caselli, Boston University

Program in Linguistics

December 14, 2021 · 12:00 pm1:30 pm · Zoom

Skin and Blood? Blackness and Arabness in Middle Eastern Perspectives

Rachel Schine, NYU AbuDhabi; Peter Webb, Leiden University

Program in Medieval Studies
medieval map

November 22, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 161 East Pyne and Zoom

How to Write a W: On the Magical Beginning of German Writing

Stephan Müller, University of Vienna

Program in Medieval Studies
Old High German Lex Silica

November 18, 2021 · 5:00 pm · 219 Aaron Burr

“Hymns for Humanists”: Dessa on Religion, Humanism, and Artistic Inspiration

Dessa, rapper, singer, and writer

Department of Religion; Humanities Council; Lewis Center for the Arts; Center for Culture, Society and Religion
Poster for Dessa, a rapper, singer, and writer

November 10, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 219 Aaron Burr Hall and Zoom

Not Just Rabbis: Rethinking Jewish Communal Leadership in Medieval Europe – The Case of Cologne

Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Program in Medieval Studies; Program in Judaic Studies
page in book of Hebrew text

November 10, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · via Zoom

3rd Person Singular and Default Case in Child African American English

Lisa Green, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Program in Linguistics

October 6, 2021 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

An ‘Under’ World of Practices: Romano-British Religious Cults in the Severn Valley

Janet Kay, Art and Archaeology; Avner Goldstein, Boston College

Program in Medieval Studies

September 27, 2021 · 12:30 pm1:30 pm · Zoom

Translating Medieval Texts

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Institute for Advanced Study and University of Pittsburgh

Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication; Program in Medieval Studies

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