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Robert Mankoff (Language and Humor) - Online Responses to the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest: An Insider's Take

Date:

February 2, 2012

Running Time:

71:52

Robert Mankoff, from The New Yorker, discusses 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

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Gender and Sexuality: What’s Language Got to Do With It?

Date:

February 1, 2012

Running Time:

97:59

In this panel, four scholars of language consider how language has been used to construct and perform gender and sexuality.

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Michael Silverstein (Language and Culture)- Culture’s Pantomime: The Code of Life-as-Lived

Date:

February 16, 2012

Running Time:

84:47

Through bodily movement, a pantomime artist creates a sense of co-presence of objects, persons, etc.

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Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation

Date:

February 15, 2012

Running Time:

80:29

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.

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The History of Geomagnetism Research in Support of Continental Drift

Date:

February 14, 2012

Running Time:

65:41

This talk by Rob Van der Voo appeals to both a science and non-science audience, because it focuses on history as well as science.

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Last modified: 02/23/2012

Gender and Sexuality: What’s Language Got to Do With It?

Date:

February 1, 2012

Running Time:

97:59

In this panel, four scholars of language consider how language has been used to construct and perform gender and sexuality.

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Last modified: 02/06/2012

Gender and Sexuality: What’s Language Got to Do With It?

Date:

February 1, 2012

Running Time:

138:00

In this panel, four scholars of language consider how language has been used to construct and perform gender and sexuality.

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Last modified: 02/02/2012

Michael Frank: Numbers as Tools for Thinking

Date:

January 26, 2012

Running Time:

121:54

What is the relationship between language and thought?

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Unveiling of the Heritage Edition of The Saint John’s Bible

Date:

January 20, 2012

Running Time:

33:01

In 1998, Saint John’s Abbey and University commissioned renowned calligrapher Donald Jackson to produce a hand-written, hand-illuminated Bible.

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The Author's Forum Presents: The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story, a conversation with Tiya Miles and Kristen Hass

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Date:

January 8, 2012

Running Time:

118:54

Tiya Miles, U-M faculty member, public historian and MacArthur Fellow will discuss her latest book,

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Last modified: 02/02/2012

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