Is there such a thing as Jewish horror? Looking at examples of what has frightened Jews over three millennia of literary history, we'll venture some conclusions.
From the earliest stages of language processing, people use prosodic information in word recognition and to predict and construct the syntactic structure of an utterance in their native language (L1) (e.g., Eckstein & Friederici, 2006; Friederich et al., 2004; Isel et al., 2005; Pauker et al., 2011; Steinhauer, 2003; see also Cutler et al., 1997; Wagner & Watson, 2010, for two reviews).
Viachaslau Yarashevich, Fulbright Scholar, Belarus State University
Grigory Ioffe, Professor of Geography, Radford University
David Marples, Professor, Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta
Olga Klimova, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Olga Kuchinskaya, Professor, Department of Communication
An International Conference at the University of Pittsburgh
Thursday, March 29
Welcoming Reception: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Session I: Revolutionary Dynamics (6:00pm - 8:00pm)
Asef Bayat (University of Illinois): "Revolution without Movement, Movement without Revolution -- Again"
Samer Shehata (Georgetown University): "Too Little, Too Late: The Mubarak Regime's Response to Dynamic Protest"
Mohammed Bamyeh (University of Pittsburgh): "On Spontaneity and Organization"
Friday, March 30
Breakfast: 9:00am - 10:00am
The Sixth Annual Margaret Morrison Distinguished Lecture in Women's History.
Anna Krylova is the author of "Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front" (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Her book was awarded the 2011 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association.
Katie Trumpener, Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English and director of graduate studies in comparative literature at Yale University
This graduate seminar is in English and open to all graduate students.
Biography – the story of a person’s life – is one of the most popular types of literature today. Yet biography also holds an important place in scholarship. Biographies invite us to consider what effect, if any, an individual may have on the larger course of events. Biographies of creative personalities bring up the further question of whether connections exist between a life and times and an individual’s music, art, or literary works and if so, what those connections might be.
The pre-circulated text for discussion in this seminar will be Professor Ng's forthcoming article, "Dutch Wars, Global Trade, and the Heroic Poem:
Dryden's Annus Mirabilis (1666) and Amin's Sya'ir Perang Mengkasar (1670)." The essay is attached.
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Ng is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.
"You taught me language, and my profit on't/ Is, I know how to curse," thus Shakespeare's Caliban accused his master Prospero of linguistic colonialism. But how accurate was this picture of transnational communication? When Europeans entered the sphere of the Indian Ocean, in what language or languages did they speak? This paper considers early modern European translingual exchanges with Southeast Asia, the aim of European long-distance voyaging as the ultimate source of sought-after spices, examining in particular the role of Malay, a lingua franca of the spice trade, as a global language.
