Applied Linguistics/TESL Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

Talk by David Bleich--"The Academy Without Language"

Monday, October 8th in Kinsey 355 at 4:00 p.m. (Free)

David Bleich teaches writing, pedagogy, language use, women's studies, Jewish studies, and science studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Subjective Criticism (Johns Hopkins UP, 1978); The Double Perspective: Language, Literacy, and Social Relations (Oxford UP, 1988); and Know and Tell: A Writing Pedagogy of Disclosure, Genre, and Membership (Heinemann, 1998).

-- submitted by Greg Rubinson (rubinson@humnet.ucla.edu)

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

LGBTS Fall Reception

All are invited to celebrate the beginning of the academic year by honoring three distinguished scholars who are joining the UCLA faculty this fall: Philip Brett, Musicology; Sue-Ellen Case, Theater; Christopher Looby, English

4:00-6:00, 306 Royce Hall. Thursday, Oct 18, 2001

Free & open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

-- submitted by Tammy Ho (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

QGrad 2001: A Conference on Sexuality & Gender

Saturday, October 27, 2001 8:45 am -6:30 pm 306 Royce Hall

A public conference devoted to graduate student research & performance in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies, on queer topics, sexuality & gender.

** 5:15 - 6:30 pm FACULTY SCHOLARS PANEL "OUT TO REVIEWERS: HOW TO GET YOUR WORK PUBLISHED IN A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL"

For conference schedule & program, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qgrad3.html

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Cosponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Graduate Division, the Division of the Humanities, International Studies and Overseas Programs, the Center for the Study of Women, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Campus Resource Center, and the Departments of Applied Linguistics, Economics, English, French and Francophone Studies, Germanic Languages, History, Musicology, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Spanish and Portuguese, and Writing Programs

-- submitted by Tammy Ho (lgbs@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/lgbts/qgrad3.html

Perspectivas de Negocios para latinoamerica: A Discussion in Spanish featuring Sebastian Edwards, Professor, The Anderson School at UCLA

This discussion will feature the expertise of Sebastian Edwards, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, and will be moderated by Prof. Jose de la Torre, former CIBER director and an expert in Latin American business.

Date: Wed. Jan. 16th, 4-6 pm in The Anderson School rm A201

Free Event. Open to public.

There will be a light reception following the discussion. For more information, contact ciber.area@anderson.ucla.edu or 310-206-5317

-- submitted by kathryn paul (kathryn@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact ciber.area@anderson.ucla.edu

Franz Rosenzweig and Political Thoelogy: Universalism, Particularism, Exceptionalism"

Monday, April 29th, 2002 Royce 306 UCLA

9:00 - 12:00 Session One "Opening the Question: Franz Rosenzweig and Political Theology"

Peter Eli Gordon (Harvard University) Dana Hollander (Michigan State University) Moshe Idel (Hebrew University) David Myers (UCLA)

1:30 - 4:30 Session Two: "Unscientific Conclusions: Between Present and Eternity"

Giorgio Agamben (University of Verona) Gil Anidjar (Columbia University) Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto) Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA) Eric Santner (University of Chicago)

7:00 Keynote Address Peter Eli Gordon Department of History, Harvard University "Rosenzweig's Nietzschean Judaism"

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is both one of the most famous and least read figures of 20th century European and North American Judaism. Besides his masterpiece, The Star of Redemption, largely written on aerograms to his mother from the trenches of WWI, Rosenzweig wrote several shorter essays and books, collaborated with Martin Buber on a monumental new translation of the Bible (as well as a radical theory of translation), and founded the Freie Juedische Lehrhaus in Frankfurt. Although he has long been revered as a great Jewish thinker, few people until recently have actually read his central work, The Star of Redemption (1921), with the attentiveness that it demanded. Increasingly, however, Rosenzweig has become the focus of intensive study in universities and seminaries, and these re-encounters have often been fruitful in unexpected and timely ways. Rosenzweig's thought has already had a great impact on a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, theology, the critical study of religion, psychoanalysis, education, and Jewish-Christian dialogue, and new implications and connections are constantly emerging. Rosenzweig's thought is both traditional in its reliance on classical Jewish texts and commentaries, and radical in its application of those concepts to a reinterpretation of human experience and possibility. Like many of his intellectual friends and relatives in Germany at the turn of the century, Rosenzweig considered converting to Christianity, as the more "rational" religion and the historical fulfillment of the Jewish revelation; but instead Rosenzweig forged a new path by returning to the texts and practices of Judaism and comparing them to those of Christianity and Islam. In the particulars of Rabbinic Jewish thought, Rosenzweig found the basis of a fundamental philosophy and ethico-political practice that would extend to embrace all people in its universal vision of redemption.

-- submitted by Susan Spitzer (spitzer@humnet.ucla.edu)

Lyn@humnet.ucla.edu

The 5th Annual SCALAR Symposium

Wednesday, May 15th, 2002

Dr. Liz Hamp-Lyons Chair Professor of English, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Assessing writing across the curriculum: First language and second language competence

-- submitted by Lyn Repath-Martos (lyn@humnet.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact greenb@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

WebLAS demo for language instructors

No RSVP required, but seating is limited.

-- submitted by Annelie Chapman (lrp@humnet.ucla.edu)

Purevoice voice email for language instruction: a demo and workshop

No RSVP required, but seating is limited.

-- submitted by Annelie Chapman (lrp@humnet.ucla.edu)