Abstract: Drawing on my recent two-volume study of Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1928), I will discuss the different axes, conflicting strands, and productive paradoxes of colonial knowledge in the Linguistic Survey of India . In particular, I will address the following questions:   What do the terms ‘India’, ‘Survey’, and ‘knowledge’ mean in the Linguistic Survey of India? In what sense is the Survey ‘colonial’? What is the relationship between superintending and authoring in the Survey? What role do ignorance & doubt play in the Survey’s generation of knowledge in relation to the failure of the planned Linguistic Survey of Burma? Finally, how might we think about the LSI’s postcolonial legacy?   Biography: Javed Majeed is Professor of English […]

Abstract: Movement and mobility have always been entangled in how affect is conceptualized and understood. To be affected, after all, may also mean to be moved, as the condition of affectivity traverses senses of displacement, transformation, and passage. This is why stories about migration, of bodies crossing borders and cultures, are charged with emotions and feelings that are, in themselves, fraught with contradictions that intervene in public discourses. This talk looks at the development of affect studies at the intersections of class, race, gender, sexuality, and postcoloniality while also exploring the emerging literary and cultural texts written by migrant underclass from Southeast Asia. Through the lens of affect, migrant writings illustrate the importance of the ordinary and the everyday in […]

Abstract: The humanities tell the stories of our shared human experience, strengthen communities, and help bridge divides.  -Ohio Humanities Council Humanities focuses on understanding meaning, purpose, and goals and furthers the appreciation of singular historical and social phenomena.   – Wilhelm Dilthey on ‘Human Sciences’   This talk focuses on how we can turn the multitude of data points (e.g., big data) into the story of the purpose and goals, to understand meaning of ourselves and our society. In particular we will answer three research questions. First how can language tell the story of the purpose and goals, and interpret the meaning of ourselves and our society? Second, what are the linguistic devices for expressing meaning, purpose, and goal? What are […]

Ricardo Moutinho 14:00: Communicating time inside the dome: depicting the periodicity of celestial movements in talk Cosmological time, and the connection between time measurement and astronomical events, are central to astronomy and astronomy communication, yet people’s use of time concepts in astronomy outreach activities have not received sufficient attention in the research literature. How is time depicted and communicated in outreach contexts? In this paper we present an analysis of the communication of time concepts in planetarium sessions. Participants in these sessions varied: school children between 3 to 12 years old, families and adults. Data were collected during the summer of 2019. Taking Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EM/ CA) as our approach, we analyse instances of actual events in planetarium […]