Friday, March 11th, 2011 Sociolinguistic Regimes and the Management of "Diversity": New Europe and Old Europe

DateTimeLocation
Friday, March 11, 20112:00PM - 4:00PMSeminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place

Description

Susan Gal received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently Mae & Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, of Linguistics, and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Her research interests are in the political economy of language, including linguistic nationalism, language and, gender, and especially the rhetorical and symbolic aspects of political transformation in contemporary Eastern Europe and post-socialism generally. Her work focuses as well on the construction of gender and discourses of reproduction. Professor Gal’s publications have appeared in Social Anthropology, East European Politics and Societies, The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and elsewhere. She is the author (with J. T. Irvine) of Making a Difference: Language Ideologies and Sociocultural Differentiation (in preparation).


Speakers

Susan Gal
University of Chicago


Main Sponsor

European Union Centre of Excellence

Co-Sponsors

Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Department of Anthropology

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