Conference at Notre Dame will explore the value of language as a tool for social activism and social change | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame






	
	





  	Skip To Content
	Skip To Navigation
	Skip To Search






  
  
    University of Notre Dame

    
      
      Notre Dame News

      
      
    


    
    
      
        
        
        	
	Experts
	ND in the News
	Subscribe
	About Us
	


      
        
          
          
          
          
          
        

      


      
    


    
    
      	 Home
	 Contact
	 Search
	
          
          
            
            
          
          Menu
        
        


      
        
          
          
          
          
          
        

      

    

  

  
  

  

  
    	Home › 
	News › 
	Conference at Notre Dame will explore the value of language as a tool for social activism and social change


    
      
        
          Conference at Notre Dame will explore the value of language as a tool for social activism and social change

          
            
              
                
                Published: April 10, 2001
              

              
                Author: Julie Hail Flory
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          An upcoming conference at the University of Notre Dame will explore the value of language as a tool for social activism and social change. Titled “Visible Language: Power and Scripts,” the conference will be April 21-22 (Saturday and Sunday) in McKenna Hall.p. Conference participants will review historic changes in languages such as those which occurred to Arabic in the 8th and 9th centuries or Latin in the 16th century. Each shift during those periods mirrored, in terms of societal impact, such modern trends as the infusion of profanity into political speech in the 1960s, or the role of Ebonics today, according to W. Martin Bloomer, chair and associate professor of classics at Notre Dame and conference organizer.p. Presenters will include Dimitri Gutas of Yale University, who will discuss “From Arab to Arabic Culture in Early Abbasid Baghdad (750-850): State Ideology and the Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement” at 1:30 p.m. April 21 (Saturday); and Haun Saussy of Stanford University on “‘Until One Attain to the Universal Empire’: 17th-Century Language Technologies and What They Say” at 10 a.m. April 22 (Sunday).p. The conference is supported by the Henkels Lecture Series. Other presenters are:p. ? Daniel Sheerin, Notre Dame, “Barbarism Vs. Paganism: Latinity and the Struggle for Intellectual Hegemony in the Early 16th Century,” 3 p.m. (April 21) Saturdayp. ? Lionel Jensen, chair and associate professor of East Asian languages and literature at Notre Dame, “Whose Metaphor, Whose Mistake: Rhetoric and Misapprehension in Chinese Thought,” 11:30 a.m. April 22 (Sunday).p. ? Bloomer, “A Marble Language,” 10 a.m. April 21 (Saturday).p. The conference builds on the findings of a seminar in December titled “The Politics of Language.”

TopicID: 3478

        

        
        
          
            

          

        
      
      
    
  
  
    	Home
	Experts
	ND in the News
	Subscribe
	About Us


  

  
  
    
     
  
  

  
  
    
      	For the Media
	Contact


    
            
    
      
	Office of Public Affairs and Communications


      Notre Dame News

      
        
          
            500 Grace Hall
 
            Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
          
          
          
          
        

        
          	 Facebook
	 Twitter
	 Instagram
	 YouTube
	 Pinterest


        
      

      
© 2022 University of Notre Dame

    
    
      

        
      
      
        
          	Search
	Mobile App
	News
	Events
	Visit
	Accessibility


        
        
          	 Facebook
	 Twitter
	 Instagram
	 YouTube
	 LinkedIn