Professor Monica Heller - University of Toronto (https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/sje/People/1615/Monica_Heller.html) Abstract A few years ago, the University of Toronto Press approached me and Bonnie McElhinny with a proposal that we produce a new introductory text to linguistic anthropology and an accompanying reader. Faced with what we were experiencing as a disconnect between the role of language in […]
Professor Crispin Thurlow - University of Bern (https://www.ens.unibe.ch/about_us/staff/prof_dr_thurlow_crispin/index_eng.html) Abstract The prime technique of power is now escape, slippage, elision and avoidance … Zygmunt Bauman (2000: 11) The infinity pool is currently an epitomic, ubiquitous marker of distinction and prestige in so-called luxury tourism. Arguably the supreme example of these vanishing-edge illusions is to be found […]
Mohammed Hanif (http://www.penhongkong.org/pen-hong-kong-literature-human-rights-lecture-november-2019-mohammed-hanif-stories-we-cant-tell/)
Dr Caterina Romeo - Sapienza University of Rome
Dr Kaitlin Staudt - Education University of Hong Kong
Seminar Series, 2019-2020 Second Semester
Professor Don Kulick - Uppsala University
Dr Caterina Romeo - Sapienza University of Rome
