Say What?! →

Street Harassment Intervention Strategies” is a grassroots, multimedia-based project that aims to equip the NYC community with the skills necessary to respond to and intervene in street harassment when witnessing it. Through this project, Ranjani and Salvador will facilitate a limited number of street harassment intervention trainings, create a pocket-sized booklet of street harassment intervention strategies, and produce a video based on the trainings.

Urban Archive →

the largest mobile archive of New York City history by combining open records and map data with the digital collections of institutions like the Brooklyn Historical Society, Museum of the City of New York, and the New York Public Library.

SPEECH/IMAGE/SPECTACLE

https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/colloquia/center-humanistic-inquiry.  

Our theme, SPEECH/IMAGE/SPECTACLE, invites inquiry into the politics, aesthetics, technologies, genealogies, and epistemologies of contemporary public discourse.  Over the course of two years we will explore the ways we generate, encode, and circulate meaning through representation, inquiring after the nature and effects of speech, image, and spectacle on the senses, on human subjectivity, and on politics and sociality. How should we understand shifting relations between speech (in the guise of words, languages, speech acts, free speech rights, and so on), performance, and spectacle, both now and historically?  Has speech now been spectacularized?  What is the relation between spectacle and identity, authenticity, or truth?  How do image and spectacle translate or channel power?  How should we assess calls to regulate or repress publication and circulation of troubling speech and images, or conversely to expand their scale and reach?  What ways of perceiving and practicing politics does a spectacular society demand or allow?  How does the very domain of representation change as the global circulation of text and image compresses space and recalibrates time?

Michael Haugh →

Affiliated with the School of Languages and Culture at https://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/ 

Areas of focus:  interactional pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, conversation analysis. 

Professor Haugh’s research focuses on the role of language in social interaction, with particular interest in the disciplines of pragmatics and conversation analysis and he is currently involved in a number of international research projects including “Humour in Taiwan” (funded by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, 2016-2019), “The linguistic implementation of interactional roles” (funded by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science), as well as being involved in a project to develop the Alveo Human Communication Science Virtual Laboratory (funded by NCRIS, 2013-2017).  He has played a leading role in the establishment of the Australian National Corpus (http://www.ausnc.org.au), and has particular interest in spoken corpora and the role they can play in furthering research in pragmatics.  He is also Co-Editor in Chief of a leading international journal, the Journal of Pragmatics. The successful applicant would assist with research tasks relating to these projects and duties, and other projects as they arise.