Hunter Undergraduate Linguistics Conference This Friday/Saturday!
Angela Reyes
The Hunter Undergraduate Linguistics Association (HULA) is having their annual undergraduate linguistics conference (HULLS6) this Friday 5/6 and Saturday 5/7. Please see schedule below. And please note that Jillian will be giving the keynote on Saturday afternoon! (I pasted her abstract at the bottom.)
Six (!) of my students are presenting, and maybe some of yours are too, so it's a wonderful opportunity to support the next generation of scholars! I'll be there all Saturday afternoon with my daughter, so please join us, tell your colleagues/students, and bring family/friends! It's free, but they ask that you try to pre-register so they know how much food to get: https://hula.typeform.com/to/SSJqte
Angie
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H U L L S 6
HUNTER COLLEGE
3RD FLOOR HUNTER WEST GLASS CAFETERIA
695 PARK AVENUE
S C H E D U L E:
F R I D A Y, M A Y 6TH
4:00 – 5:00 Registration
5:00 – 5:20 Jason Bach - Ambiguity on English Passive Participles: "Be" as a Double Agent
5:20 – 5:40 Z.L. Zhou - Towards an Articulatory Understanding of Historical Phonology
6:00 – 6:20 Addam Amauri Jones - Papiamentu's West African Origins: Extracting the Imported Portuguese-based Creole from the Mixed-Language Debate
6:20 – 6:40 Eunice Painson – Allocutive Agreement in Korean Speech Styles
7:00 – 8:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Rachael Holborn (University of Cambridge) - Is Politeness a Linguistic Phenomenon?
S A T U R D A Y, M A Y 7TH
10:00 – 10:45 Registration
10:45 – 11:05 Chu Paing - Knowledge of Burmese Classifiers among 1.5 and Second Generation Burmese Children in Queens, New York
11:05 – 11:25 Hanna Muller – The Absentive in German
11:25 – 11:45 Michelle DePrizio – Analysis of Gender Change from Latin to Romanian
12:00 – 12:20 Esra Padgett - Self as Commodity, Social Media as Market: The Branding of a Porn Star
12:20 – 12:40 Ally Rosen - “It’s already who you are!”: De-Ethnicizing Discourse in the Western Yoga Celebrity
12:40 – 1:00 Emily Corvi - The Bag, The Myth, The Legend: Arriving at Material (in)Authenticity by Semiotic Means
L U N C H 1:00 – 1:45
1:45 – 2:45 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Jillian Cavanaugh (Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY) - Talk as Work: Economic Sociability in Northern Italian Heritage Food Production
3:00 – 3:20 Alina Shen - Mock asian and authenticity
3:20 – 3:40 Krystal Briggs - This Language Still Duh Gwine Down Yuh: Exploring the Creole Origins of AAVE through the Evidence of TMA Markers
3:40 – 4:00 Julie Sorokurs - Comedians vs. Joke-Tellers: A Bakhtinian Approach to What is Hack and What is Truth in Standup Comedy, and Why it Matters!
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KEYNOTE
Talk as Work: Economic Sociability in Northern Italian Heritage Food Production
Professor Jillian Cavanaugh (Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)
How can the social dimensions of talk get caught up in economic activity, creating, for instance, connections and relationships between those who sell and those who buy that are personal but also part of the market? This talk addresses this question by focusing on interactions at farmers markets between vendors and customers to analyze the various verbal means through which small-scale producers of heritage foods add value to their hand-made products. It offers the concept of economic sociability as a model for analyzing interactions among people and goods within commodity chain processes as simultaneously social practice and economic activity. It focuses on transcripts drawn from recordings made during ethnographic and linguistic anthropological fieldwork with heritage food producers carried out in the northern Italian town and province of Bergamo and contributes to scholarly conversations about the role and value of language within political economies, such as language commodification, branding and marketing, and language and materiality.