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Anne Storch, Viveka Velupillai & Nicholas Faraclas
University of Cologne, University of Giessen, University of Puerto Rico
Anne Storch, Full Professor, Afrikanistik / African Linguistics, University of Cologne. Linguistic research in Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda. Focuses on linguistic manipulation and marginalized languages, linguistic typology, colonial linguistics and anthropological linguistics. PhD in Afrikanistik / African Linguistics from the Goethe University of Frankfurt / M. in 1999.
Viveka Velupillai, Honorary Professor, Department of English, University of Giessen & Visiting Professor, Language Sciences Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands; PhD Linguistics, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & Nijmegen University in 2002. Linguistic research in Hawaii and Shetland; linguistic typology, language contact & historical linguistics, Creoles and marginalised languages.
Dr Nicholas Faraclas, of Romani (aka 'gypsy') and Greek descent, is a Professor in Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Having received his PhD from the UC Berkeley, an NSF and two Fulbright Fellowships, he has taught and published in theoretical, descriptive, socio-, and applied linguistics. He conducts research on postcolonial linguistics and colonial-era contact languages and promotes community-based literacy activities in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, Asia and the South Pacific.
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Hospitable Linguistics
July 12, 2024 | 9:00 AM
'Hospitableness' and 'hospitality' have been discussed in
'seminal works' such as Derrida's "Hostipitalité" ["Hostipitality"] (1999, [2000]). This volume explores how Derrida, as an embodied human being, turned his attention to hospitality as a central theme in his work. His inspiration came from an encounter with a Romani man he met in jail after being arrested for participating in a protest march. Interestingly, the name and words of this Romani man who offered him generous hospitality is nowhere to be found in Derrida's accounts concerning this experience that became a starting point for his interest and work on hospitality. This project aims to begin undoing the colonizing acts of erasure, omission, and naturalization witnessed in "Hostipitalité" and to situate the process of understanding language in the midst of a world where immanence contingency and immanence are acknowledged and celebrated.