Past Events
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Oct 15Ling Grad Student Writing Group
1151 Van Hise
When: Tuesdays 1:30-5:30 Where: 1151 Van Hise Who: Any students working on linguistics writing or research How: Drop in any time and stay for as long as you like. Regular space to work in community together, stay motivated and connect with peers!
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Oct 7Antoine Hunter Dance performance
An Evening with Antoine Hunter Antoine Hunter will be providing a dance performance, lecture, and question and answer session about his career as a deaf dancer. Open to the public, ASL interpreters, and CART will be provided. View this invitation and directions to the event by our ASL instructor Taylor Koss!
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Oct 7Deaf Fire: Finding Your Path in a Hearing World
Panel discussion with Antoine Hunter, Zahna Simon, and Jason Antoine. Panelists are all Deaf professionals who will use American Sign Language (ASL) for the discussion. Spoken English interpretation and live professional captioning (CART) will be provided. Moderator: Kate Lewandowski (Strategic Support Coordinator, National Deaf Center)
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Oct 3
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Oct 2Driver on Heritage Language Education
An Emotional Lens on Heritage Language Education: The Positive, the Negative, and the… Complicated for Heritage Students and Educators Meagan Driver, Michigan State University See the event page for registration and full information. SLA Talk Series on Emotion Research in Second Language Acquisition
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Oct 1Lepic on online ASL367 Van Hise
Studying sign distributions in American Sign Language online Ryan Lepic, Gallaudet University Language Sciences Colloquium Series In American Sign Language (ASL), four signs are commonly cited as translation equivalents of English ‘what’ (Hill et al. 2019, 67). However, to date, there have been few studies of how these ‘what’-signs in ASL may differ in actual …
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Sep 24Davis on gesture in African American signed and spoken language
“Okaaay Sis!”: African American Language, Multimodality, and Black Women’s Gesture Sovoya Davis Linguistics PhD Candidate University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Language Sciences Colloquium Series See the event page for registration and full details
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Sep 17Barrett on Maya language ideologies
online
Language ideologies and cultural continuity in the Maya renaissance Rusty Barrett, University of Kentucky This talk discusses current trends in visual art, poetry, and (hip hop) music in Maya communities in Guatemala. I argue that contemporary forms of expression are related to pre-Columbian Maya culture through an assemblage of language ideologies found among speakers of …
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Sep 16Indigenous research methodologies and Algonquian languages reading group
1151 Van Hise
The group will discuss the chapter “Articulating an Indigenous Research Agenda” from the book Decolonizing methodologies: research and indigenous peoples, by Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Contact Professor Monica Macaulay for more information, or to be added to the mailing list.