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Truth in Health and Safety Messages Communication campaigns are important parts of public health interventions, raising awareness about health and safety. More than just transmitting facts, health and safety campaigns usually ask audiences to do things: See a doctor, quit smoking, wear safety gear, etc. Using examples from posters and science museum exhibits, I show
A Talk by Dr. Zheng Zhu This talk investigates the mainstream media’s discursive construction of Welsh rugby legend Gareth Thomas, with a specific focus on the construction of his masculinity as an out gay celebrity. Existing critical scholarship has discussed media representations of gay figures, but has not examined how unconventional queer representation interacts with
A talk by Ann Delilkan After determining the number of meaning-creating sounds (also known as ‘phonemes’) in a language, generative phonologists aim to formulate the abstract rules understood by native speakers that govern how those sounds combine to generate words. In this presentation, I describe a set of such rules and outline the empirical testing
In this talk Khalid Lachheb draws on cognitive semantic studies to explore the cognitive dimension of metaphor and the metaphoric structure of internet terminology. This presentation also sketches recent terminological studies that analyze the role of metaphor in scientific communication. Dr. Lachheb will suggest strategies and guidelines to translate metaphorical internet terms from English to
In this talk Dr. David Smith presents the case for a reinterpretation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s full throated entrance into the world of popular commercial theatre with his last Opera die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute, 1791). In the context of Dr. Smith’s ongoing composition of an operatic sequel to die Zauberflöte, he discusses the nature
The Humanities Department cordially invites you to October's Works-in-the-Works event In this talk Prof. McAuliffe will examine the design of sixteenth-century European tapestries and the cartoons, or full-size colored drawings, that were used as models in the workshops of Flemish weavers. The artists Raphael (1483–1520) and Giulio Romano (1499–1546) were the most influential Italian
The Humanities Department cordially invites you to February's Works-in-the-Works event A talk by Profs. Ting Chin and Christopher S. The City Performs: An Architectural History of NYC Theatre. In this presentation, we will discuss our teaching collaboration in the interdisciplinary course History of the Theatre: Stages and Technology. Faculty, staff, and students are invited. Refreshments served, no
The Humanities Department cordially invites you to March's Works-in-the-Works event Two Spanish authors propose different ideas of love. St. John of the Cross, a 16th-century mystic, is devoted to spiritual, divine love. Antonio Machado, a 20th-century secular writer, focuses instead on the experience of physical, human love. Examined together, their poems dramatize the eternal conflict
Citation processes are shaped in a textual context that characterizes the academic discourse within each genre, such as disciplinary community or cultural framework The interplay between the citation processes and context in turn generates new knowledge between the writer and reader. In this presentation, I discuss the cross-cultural differences in citations used in their research
The Humanities Department presents…………… A Talk by Sarah Standing Beginning in the mid-1970s, Greenpeace’s “Save the Whales” Campaign became a successful weapon against international whaling. Today, oceanic warming causes shifts in whale migration, uncertain feeding patterns, and the consequent loss of vitality. In this presentation, I investigate the efficacy of the “Save the Whales” campaign
