Events

Andrea Beltrama MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania   Imprecision and speaker identity: How social cues affect meaning resolution   Speakers’ descriptions can be associated with a varying margin of imprecision: an actual time of 2:57 could be reported precisely as “2:57″, or less precisely as “3 o’clock” (Lasersohn 1999 i.a.). This variability introduces an element […]

MIRA-Open Seminar: George Yancy

February 4, 2020
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

George Yancy Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy, Emory University Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College   The White Gaze, Black Embodiment, and the Elevator Effect   In this lecture, I will explore the impact of the white gaze on the Black body within quotidian spaces. Through a brief encounter between a Black man and a white […]