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Public Lecture: The Individual or the Group
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Oct. 21, Tuesday -- Physicist, pacifist and independent thinker Freeman Dyson will give a free, public lecture, "The Individual or the Group?" at 7 p.m. in the AGR room of the Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center on the UC Davis campus. Dyson will discuss how his thinking on this basic question, which is at the root of our ethics, laws and politics, has been influenced by scholars in the humanities, law and evolutionary biology. Dyson has written several popular books about science and the future of mankind, including "Disturbing the Universe," "Weapons and Hope," "Origins of Life," "Infinite in All Directions," "Imagined Worlds," and "The Sun, the Genome and the Internet." He is currently professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. He has received numerous awards, including the Lewis Thomas Prize in 1996, honoring the Scientist as Poet. In 2000, he received the $1 million Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion from the Templeton Foundation. Dyson's visit to UC Davis is part of the Department of Physics' Centennial Speaker Series, supported by contributions from members of the department, by the Office of the Chancellor and Provost and by the dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
Risque Subjects and Risky Politics
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Oct. 14, Tuesday -- Back before the Internet, how did an ordinary person learn about risque subjects and risky politics? Through "little blue books," published for a nickel apiece, which sold hundreds of thousands of copies a year through much of the 20th century. Essayist, critic and blogger Scott McLemee will talk about the blue books, how ideas get out and how idea-peddlers make money from people's desire to learn on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at Bistro 33, 226 F St., Davis. His talk, "Sex, Socialism and Self-Education," will begin at 5:30 p.m. followed by a reception at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. McLemee has been a maverick voice on culture and politics for more than a decade. A former contributing editor for Lingua Franca and senior writer at the Chronicle of Higher Education, in 2005 he helped start the online news journal Inside Higher Ed, where he serves as essayist at large, writing a weekly column called Intellectual Affairs. He also blogs at the online arts journal Quick Study. He is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for excellence in reviewing. The talk is part of the Public Intellectuals Forum, a series of public lectures sponsored by the UC Davis Humanities Institute and UC Davis Center for History, Society and Culture. For more information, contact Jennifer Langdon at (530) 754-0331 or visit http://dhi.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=651.
Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Nov. 6, Thursday -- Illegal immigrant, tax burden, job stealer. Patriot, family-oriented, hard worker, model consumer. Since becoming the largest minority group in the U.S., Latinos have been caught between these wildly contrasting images. Arlene Davila, a cultural anthropology professor at New York University, will explore what these caricatures suggest about Latinos' shifting place in the popular and political imagination in a free public lecture on Thursday, Nov. 6, at Bistro 33, 226 F St., Davis. Her talk, "Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race," will begin at 5:30 p.m. followed by a reception at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Described by Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz as "the finest, fiercest and most piercing of our public intellectuals," Davila is a professor of anthropology and American studies at New York University and the author of "Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City" and "Latinos Inc: Marketing and the Making of a People." The talk is part of the Public Intellectuals Forum, a series of public lectures sponsored by the UC Davis Humanities Institute and UC Davis Center for History, Society and Culture. For more information, contact Jennifer Langdon at (530) 754-0331 or visit http://dhi.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=651.

 
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A Web of On-line Grammars - This website contains links to all of the serious if not complete grammars of languages on the Web. It currently contains links to grammars of more than 80 different languages.
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Barrett Translations' Language Resources - Language and linguistics resources for Asian languages including Japanese hiragana with vocabulary, a Korean linguistics glossary, Mandarin Chinese and Old English with romanization and transliteration.
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Convent of Pater Noster - The Lord's Prayer in more than one thousand languages and dialects.
Meta Description: [ CHRISTUS REX is a private, non-profit organization which presents prayers in over 1000 languages and dialects ]

Ethnologue - Extensive database of the world's languages, organized/searchable by map, language family, country, and language name. From SIL International. Also offers print and CD-ROM versions.
Meta Description: [ Home page of ethnologue.com, a searchable database of language resources. ]

European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages - Promotes and funds minority languages throughout Europe.
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Jennifer's Language Page - How to say hello, please, thank you, and other basic social phrases, in hundreds of languages. Includes links to dictionaries, phrase guides, and other resources for many of the world's languages and countries.
Meta Description: [ At this site you can learn how to say hello, welcome, thank you, and other useful words and phrases in hundreds of languages from around the world. ]

Language Families - Introduction to the major language families, including Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, and Afro-Asiatic.
Meta Description: [ An introduction to Language Families. The Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Dravidian, Sino-Tibetan, Malayo-Polynesian, Niger-Congo are the main families discussed. ]

Language Families - Maps of the various language families, with background reference material, based on Encyclopaedia Britannica material.

Language Families - Typology of the world's languages from the Fu Jen Catholic University. In English and Chinese.

404 Language Miniatures - Mini-essays about human language in its endless kaleidoscope of aspects.

Language Museum - Short sample texts of more than 1200 languages and dialects in the world.

Language of the Week - A different world language is examined each week. Includes archives of past weeks.

Language Portraits - Translations of one poem into 82 languages by native speakers.

404 Language Tree - List of world language hierarchies.

Languages on the Web - 30,000 selected links to as many as 400 different languages, plus the first internet library of multilingual parallel texts.
Meta Description: [ All about foreign languages, 30,000+ selected links to as many as 400 different languages, online language courses, language sites evaluation, free advice on how to study, plus the first Internet library of multilingual parallel texts to let you learn faster and more effectively ]

Liberation Philology - low-cost, no-nonsense, user-friendly computer programs to help beginning and intermediate students master the vocabulary and/or basic grammar of a variety of ancient, medieval, and modern languages.
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LinguaShop.com - Online shop of teaching materials on various European languages (including some quite rare ones) plus Esperanto.
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LMBM: Table of Contents - The personal website of Robert Beard, devoted to the study of morphology, especially Beard's theory of 'Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology'. It is linked to an index of on-line dictionaries and grammars, and several pages of linguistic fun.
Meta Description: [ The personal website of Robert Beard, devoted to the study of morphology, especially Beard's theory of 'Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology'. It is linked to an index of on-line dictionaries and grammars, and several pages of linguistic fun. The site is maintained at Bucknell University, Lewisburg,... ]

Multilingual Data Bank - Multilingual corpus server located at the Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki. Contains some samples from the rarer languages.

Muturzikin - Linguistic map of Europe - All European languages on maps. Priority is given to endangered languages and minotity linguistic people.
Meta Description: [ Linguistic maps of Europe, Africa, America, Oceania, Asia and Basque Country. We provide useful and practical information for thousands languages displayed on specific geographic areas / Cartes linguistiques de l'Europe, Afrique, Amérique, Océanie, Canada et Euskal Herria. Une information géo... ]

The Human-Languages Page - The Human-Languages Page is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The over 1900 links in the HLP database have been hand-reviewed to bring the best language links the Web has to offer.

500 The Linguist List: Language Resources - Searchable information on language families, employment opportunities, publications, text and computer tools, language study and pedagogy.

The List of Language Lists - List-servers for a wide variety of language studies, from Nostratic to Spanish and Tolkien.

The Rosetta Project - Working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone, a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,000 languages.

The World's Top Twenty Spoken Languages - Estimates for the world's top 20 languages (given in millions) on the basis of the number of mother-tongue (first-language) speakers and population estimates for those countries where the language has official status.

UCLA Language Materials Project Index Pages - Information on less-commonly taught languages.

500 Vocabulary Test - A java applet to test your language skills in French, Spanish, German and Czech.

Yamada Language Center - Extensive information and web links on languages.


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