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Linguistics Matters
ZoomLinguistics Matters Maria Polinsky, UMD-College Park In this talk, I will present the main questions addressed in modern linguistics and will show how language can be used to assess the mind, brain, and culture, with …
Max Kade Institute Symposium
Pyle CenterNineteenth-Century Echoes: German Settlers and Explorers in South America Max Kade Institute Symposium During the 1800s, emigrants from German-speaking Europe came not only to the United States and Canada; they were also drawn to Argentina, …
Mass Speaking, Public Thinking: Theatrical Cognition in Tret’iakov and Brecht
1418 Van Hise HallDevin Fore (Princeton) https://german.princeton.edu/department/people/faculty/core/devin-fore This lecture will explore the connections between, on the one hand, Sergei Tret’iakov and Sergei Eisenstein’s experiments with so-called “collective creation” in the Moscow Proletkul’t theater of the early 1920s and, …
Showing of CROSSING
4070 Vilas HallThu., Oct. 3 | 7:00 PM, 4070 Vilas Hall Sweden, Turkey | 2024 | DCP | 106 min. | Georgian, Turkish with English subtitles Director: Levan Akin Cast: Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanli In rural Georgia, retired schoolteacher Lia sets off on a quest …
Showing of FAR FROM HOME (DAR GHORBAT)
4070 Vilas HallWest Germany, Iran | 1975 | DCP | 93 min. | Turkish, German Director: Sohrab Shahid-Saless Cast: Parviz Sayyad, Cihan Anasai, Muhammet Temizkan Turkish immigrant Husseyin (Sayyad) endures a monotonous existence as a "guest worker" in '70s West Berlin, sharing a cramped apartment and toiling …