Events

Keynote Event: "Dreaming in Different Tongues: Languages and the Way We Think"

Panelists:

Professor Lera Boroditsky (Stanford University Psychology)
Actor and Alumnus John Cho (Harold and Kumar, Star Trek)
Professor Lily Wong Fillmore (UC Berkeley School of Education)
Author and Alumna Maxine Hong Kingston (The Woman Warrior, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life)

Location: Wheeler Auditorium
Date: Wednesday September 14, 2011
Time: 7:30 pm
Admission: Free. Open to all on a first-come, first-seated basis.

Watch the Keynote video (YouTube)

Faculty Panels

All faculty panels are free and open to everyone on a first-come, first seated basis.

Language as Cultural Heritage: Loss and Revival

Moderator: Leanne Hinton (Linguistics, UC Berkeley)
Andrew Garrett (Linguistics, UC Berkeley)
Nakia Zavalla (Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians)
Ana Celia Zentella (Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego)

Tuesday, September 6, 3:30-5:00 pm, 370 Dwinelle Hall

New Media, New Words, New Worlds

Moderator: David Bates, UC Berkeley Department of Rhetoric and the Berkeley Center for New Media
Gabriel Cortez, UC Berkeley student and slam poet
Abigail DeKosnik, UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, and the Berkeley Center for New Media
Lyn Hejinian, UC Berkeley Department of English

Thursday, September 8, 3:30-5:00 pm, Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)

A Discussion of Language and Mind

Moderator: Keith Johnson (Linguistics, UC Berkeley
Robert Knight (Cognitive Science and Psychology, UC Berkeley)
Judith Kroll (Psychology, Linguistics, and Women's Studies, Penn State)
Terry Regier (Cognitive Science and Linguistics, UC Berkeley)
Dan Slobin (Linguistics and Psychology, UC Berkeley)

Thursday, September 15, 3:30-5:00 pm, Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)

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In addition to the above events, which are organized by the On the Same Page program, other exciting related events will take place on campus this fall.