Careers in Linguistics

On Monday, February 26th I will participate in ‘Careers in Linguistics: A Panel Discussion’. This event is an informal discussion with people who have careers related to Linguistics. I will be joined by Dr. Tim Micek, who directs the MATESOL program at Ohio Dominican University; Gail Messico, who currently serves as the Peace Corps recruiter at OSU and in the Columbus area; and Joe Marulli, who works as a cryptologic linguist providing translation and analysis in support of national defense. The panel will be held in Arps Hall 243, 3–4:30pm.

Symposium honoring Elinor Ochs

I spent the past few days at UCLA, participating in Experiencing (In)Competence: A Symposium in Honor of Elinor Ochs. Here is an excerpt from the text sent out to participants in preparation for the symposium: “As humans, we are constantly thrown into unfamiliar contexts, wrought in a fluid world. At the same time, we orient to a sense of normalcy, anchored in hexis. In the midst of this tension, we may discover our own and others’ (In)Competence. (In)Competence is an experiential condition of social action, social life, and social order in motion. Central to this experiential condition is the sense that (In)Competence is imminent: one can become (In)Competent at any moment.” This photo includes several women with whom I have had the great privilege and pleasure of thinking in motion with over the years.