Workshops, Workshops, Workshops

Please folks, we urge you to let us know which workshops you might be interested in having. As workshops and speakers often cost PISA some of our precious finances, it is vital that we have at least six people interested in attending a workshop. Not only is money an issue, but if we invite and ask a speaker to offer a workshop, it is important to know people will show up for them. So please take a moment and review the information below and offer us feedback. Thanks

After receiving several suggestions both on the blog and in person, we have decided on the following four workshops – specific dates and information to follow:

CV workshop – in the fall.
Conference Workshop – on presenting papers and sitting on panels – in the fall.
Publishing Workshop – during the PISA Conference in the spring.
Dissertation Workshop – End of the school year in the spring.

Are you interested in these?
It has also be suggested that we “piggy back” with another department on a few speakers and we would like to know if you are interested in the following speakers and them possibly offering PISA a separate workshop. As each speaker would cost PISA money, we will only engage in this if there is ample interest – meaning at least 9 people for each individual speaker.

1. January 11th or 12th – Margaret Urban Walker, PhD, Lincoln Professor of Ethics, Justice and the Public Sphere, Arizona State University. Walker will give a public lecture on “Cycles of Violence” and will be offering a workshop based on “Death and the Maiden” the play by Ariel Dorfman (also motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley). Walker is a noted moral philosopher whose research on transitional (restorative) justice includes attention to practices, and to gender, race, etc. as analytically significant. Walker is also the author of “Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics.”

1. January 11th or 12th – Jonathan Shay, MD & PhD (US Dept of Veterans Affairs Staff Psychiatrist with Masters Degree in Classical Studies), Author of “Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Dissolution of Character,” and “Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming,” both dealing with social and political issues arising from the organization of war and post-traumatic stress.

1. Spring 2006 (Date TBA) Joyce McDonough, PhD Department of Linguistics (Chair) and Brain and Cognitive Sciences University of scholar on the Navajo language, with Bachelors in Japanese. She is a member of the LSA Endangered Languages Committee and her lecture and workshop will address questions such as: What is linguistic diversity? How does it operate in communities? What happens when a language dies? What kind of loss is it? How do we understand linguistic diversity within communities? Is linguistic diversity worthwhile? What are its benefits? What are the issues at stake in multilingual communities? How do written and oral legal systems interact, for instance? How do we deal with intractable problems like language ownership and exclusivity that are inherent to linguistic diversity? What are the ethics of investigating and documenting the languages of indigenous communities? How can we work to support common goals across multilingual communities?