Linguistics Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Lecture by Professor Sharon E.J. Gerstel, "Painting, Piety and the Peasantry in Late Medieval Byzantium"

present a lecture by

Professor Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Department of Art History & Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park

"Painting, Piety and the Peasantry in Late Medieval Byzantium"

Monday, February 11, 2002, 4:00 PM, Dodd Hall 167

Professor Gerstel received her Ph.D. at New York University and specializes in Byzantine art and archaeology. As an art historian, her research focuses on the complex relationship between liturgical and extra-liturgical ceremony and monumental painting of medieval Byzantium. She is currently at work on a book entitled Painting the Sacred House, a study of art and family ritual in village churches of rural Byzantium. As an archaeologist, Gerstel has worked at numerous Early Christian and Byzantine sites in Greece, including Dion and Corinth. She has published on the history of medieval Messenia and has written on Byzantine and Turkish pottery recovered from an intensive surface survey in that region. She serves as Co-Director of fieldwork for excavations at Panakton, Boeotia, an ancient site covered by a medieval village of the fourteenth and early fifteenth century.

-- submitted by Heather Gould (gould@humnet.ucla.edu)

"The Architecture of Panini's Grammar"

The lectures will take place Monday through Thursday, April 15th-18th, at 4 p.m. in Dodd Hall 170. They are free and open to the public.

-- submitted by Brent Vine (vine)

The Syntax of Special Inflection in Coptic and Hausa WH-Constructions

-- submitted by Michael Fishbein (fishbein@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact wendrich@humnet.ucla.edu

The Older Egyptian Verbal System: Roots and "Binyanim" (Stem Classes)

-- submitted by Michael Fishbein (fishbein@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact wendrich@humnet.ucla.edu

8th Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture

May 23-25, 2002 Kerckhoff Charles E. Young (Grand) Salon

Friday, May 24th 8:50am-4:15pm Saturday, May 25th 9:00am-5:15pm

Free Admission -- Parking $6 -- can register at the door

Paper presentations and the following plenary speakers:

Friday:

Niko Besnier (UCLA and Victoria U. of Wellington) "Crossing genders, mixing languages: The linguistic construction of transgenderism in Tonga"

Barbara Rogoff (UC Santa Cruz) "Learning through intent participation in sociocultural activity"

Saturday:

Gene Lerner (UC Santa Barbara) "Me first: Intervening actions in the selection of next speaker"

William F. Hanks: (UC Berkeley) "Proximity and construal in the deictic field"

Refreshments.

-- submitted by Emmy Goldknopf (emmy@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/al/clic/conference.html