{"id":16414,"date":"2024-09-09T05:30:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T09:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=16414"},"modified":"2024-09-08T20:29:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T00:29:53","slug":"degraff-organizes-language-linguistics-in-decolonization-liberation-struggles-in-haiti-palestine-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2024\/09\/09\/degraff-organizes-language-linguistics-in-decolonization-liberation-struggles-in-haiti-palestine-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"DeGraff organizes series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michel DeGraff has organized the following series with funding from <a href=\"https:\/\/mindhandheart.mit.edu\/\">MindHandHeart<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/wgs.mit.edu\/\">Women &amp; Gender Studies program<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Seminar for MIT Community on Language &amp; Linguistics in Decolonization &amp; Liberation Struggles in Haiti, Palestine &amp; Israel<\/p>\n<p>Fall 2024, Wednesdays noon\u00962pm, Room E51-095<\/p>\n<p>This seminar is an invitation to sociolinguistics &amp; postcolonial linguistics with case studies from Haiti Palestine &amp; Israel. We will examine the exclusion vs. inclusion of certain languages &amp; their speakers in avenues where knowledge &amp; power are created &amp; transmitted. Additionally, we will explore the use of language &amp; linguistics in propaganda in the context of conflicts where words, definitions, phrases, syntactic patterns, etc., are enlisted to political ends to the detriment of academic freedom, freedom of speech, mutual understanding, empathy, peace, community building, social justice, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Objectives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Analyze the use of language &amp; linguistics as tools for either hegemony and conflictual propaganda vs. mutual understanding, justice and a #BetterWorld.<\/li>\n<li>Explore linguistic analyses &amp; education policies as potential contributions to the foundations for peace, community-building &amp; universal respect of human rights worldwide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Current list of guest speakers:<\/p>\n<p>Jean Casimir (Universit\u00e9 d\u0092\u00c9tat d\u0092Ha\u00efti)<br clear='none'\/>\nSally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell University)<br clear='none'\/>\nDavid Beaver (University of Texas, Austin)<br clear='none'\/>\nCamelia Suleiman (Michigan State University)<br clear='none'\/>\nJoseph Levine (UMass Amherst)<br clear='none'\/>\nSamira Alayan (The Seymour Fox School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)<br clear='none'\/>\nNurit Peled-Elhanan (formerly at Hebrew University)<br clear='none'\/>\nHolly M. Jackson (University of California, Berkeley)<br clear='none'\/>\nYonatan Mendel (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)<br clear='none'\/>\nChana Morgenstern (University of Cambridge)<br clear='none'\/>\nVivien Sansour (Palestine Heirloom Seed Library)<\/p>\n<p>For more information and scheduling details, please contact Michel DeGraff at degraff@MIT.EDU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michel DeGraff has organized the following series with funding from MindHandHeart and the Women &amp; Gender Studies program: Seminar for MIT Community on Language &amp; Linguistics in Decolonization &amp; Liberation Struggles in Haiti, Palestine &amp; Israel Fall 2024, Wednesdays noon\u00962pm, Room E51-095 This seminar is an invitation to sociolinguistics &amp; postcolonial linguistics with case studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16414"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16422,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414\/revisions\/16422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}