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Religion June 2, 2020

Until the End of Time

Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

Brian Greene

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Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and …
Anthropology February 4, 2020

Language Unlimited

The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power

David Adger

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David Adger is Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. He has served as President of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain since 2015, and has authored a …
Anthropology August 14, 2018

The Creole Debate

John H. McWhorter

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John H. McWhorter is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He has written academic books on creole linguistics, including the book we’ll be talking about today …
European Studies March 6, 2018

Singular and Plural

Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in Twenty-First Century Catalonia

Kathryn Woolard

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Kathryn Woolard is Professor Emerita and Research Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She has authored seminal works on language ideology and the sociolinguistic situation in …
Literary Studies September 26, 2017

The Anthropology of Intentions

Language in a World of Others

Alessandro Duranti

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Alessandro Duranti is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, where he served as Dean of Social Sciences from 2009-2016. In his book The Anthropology of Intentions: Language in a World …