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Events by Type February 2012
Events by Location February 2012
All Hatcher Graduate Library Events for February 2012
 Gender and Sexuality: What’s Language Got to Do With It?Lecture Location:Hatcher Graduate Library, Room 100 February 1, 2012 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM In this panel, four scholars of language consider how language has been used to construct and perform gender and sexuality. They will examine a history of approaches to language, gender and sexuality; the connection between language, sexuality and masculinities; the erasure of lesbians from queer linguistics; the encoding of gender and sexuality in the grammar and lexicon and efforts to change the language.
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 Robert Mankoff (Language and Humor) - Online Responses to the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest: An Insider's TakeLecture Location:Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, Room 100 February 2, 2012 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Robert Mankoff, from The New Yorker, will discuss his article, “Online Responses to the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest: An Insiders Take.” As the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, he created the caption contest in 1998 and has been running and judging it since then, collecting and analyzing data from over 300 contests and 1.7 million entries with many interesting results about the statistical and textual characteristics of humorous user generated content.
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 U-M Celebrates LanguageReception Location:Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, Room 100 February 7, 2012 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Please join us for the opening reception of the new exhibit: U-M Library Celebrates Language.
The Library’s collections include materials in over 430 languages, covering thousands of years of civilization. This unique exhibit showcases examples of some of the materials and topics you can explore through the Library’s diverse and vast collections.
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 The History of Geomagnetism Research in Support of Continental DriftLecture Location:Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, Room 100 February 14, 2012 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM This talk by Rob Van der Voo will appeal to both a science and non-science audience, because it focuses on history as well as science. This special presentation about the historical development of the use of the geomagnetic field in geological times provides strong support for the Wegenerian theory of continental drift. This talk comes at a particularly appropriate time as approach the 100 year anniversary of the publication of Wegeners convictions about the mobility of the continents. |
 Author's Forum Presents: Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of EmancipationLecture Location:Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, Room 100 February 15, 2012 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family’s quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity and equality. Freedom Papers sets the saga of Rosalie and her descendants against the background of three great antiracist struggles of the nineteenth century: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States. |
 Michael Silverstein (Language and Culture)- Culture’s Pantomime: The Code of Life-as-LivedLecture Location:Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, Room 100 February 16, 2012 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Through bodily movement, a pantomime artist creates a sense of co-presence of objects, persons, etc. in a surrounding envelope of goal-directed social activity. Just so, in any communicative use of language the interacting individuals create a framing sense of “who” they are – sociologically, what social identities they bring to and create in the situation – as well as the “what”—“where”—“when”—“why” of the occasion of their interaction, all through the magic of the “how” of their use of language and its surrounding signals. In every interaction, this at first invisible socio-cultural frame that comes into being is the experienced “reality” of life-as-lived at that moment; its coded regularities, pervading all language, are denoted by the term ‘culture’.
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