doing something different with language
We were three or four songs into Melissa’s set when I asked my girlfriend (of the unique 3-year generation born 1980-1982) how she learned about lesbian music. She explained “probably through Women’s Studies” during her undergrad years.
L: “Mab introduced me. She opened a portal.”
L: “And Elliot followed it up.”
L: “…introduced me to Joan Armatrading…”
Melissa was going … Read more...
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Steph: We’re going to call this “Mid-Century Modern?”
Lindsey: Okay.
Steph: Okay. That’s what they’re called.
Lindsey: I like this one too.
Steph: Yeah.
Lindsey: It’s a little more like… It has brick, it has some more privacy.
Steph: … Read more...
One way to understand the scope of the planetary crisis is how authors of speculative/science fiction deal with the problem of avoiding self-inflicted human extinction. Alastair Reynolds composed a page of (fictional) historical reflection in Blue Remembered Earth (2012).
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Geoffrey (the primary protagonist) is returning to his home in Africa from a space flight to the Moon. Unbeknownst … Read more...
de Borniol, Mayel, Dunne, Josef, and Kent, Stephanie J. “Can machine algorithms truly mimic the depths of human communication?” In The Next Web. Published November 11, 2013.… Read more...
Larose, Alyssa; Smith, Pat; Kent, Stephanie Jo; Neiderbach, Josiah; Ratte, Catherine; Erichetto, Lindsay, and Maloy, Mark. Western Massachusetts Emergency Communication Strategies (2012). Available for download at http://wrhsac.org/resources/resource-documents/… Read more...
Kent, Stephanie Jo. (2012). Homolingualism and the Interaction Taboo: Simultaneous Interpreting in the European Public Sphere. In The European Public Sphere – From critical thinking to responsible action. Luciano Morganti and Léonce Bekemans (Eds.) in the “Multiple Europes” series from P.I.E Peter Lang S.A. Editions scientifiques internationales, Brussels.
… Read more...This case study presents conference-style simultaneous interpretation in the European Parliament as
with Evangelina Holvino and James Cumming of Chaos Management, LTD
Expanding Conversations about Social Justice in Education: Exploring Possibilities and Tensions
2nd Forum of the Social Justice in Education Initiative
University of Massachusetts Amherst
April 20, 2012
… Read more...Our poster presents a summary of our thinking applying the concept of simultaneity to help students and teachers bring their multiple selves to
CIBER Business Language Conference: Building Bridges from Business Languages to Business Communities
UNC Center for International Business Education & Research and UNC-Chapel Hill
March 21-23, 2012
“ESL and Innovation” (Business Language Research and Teaching 2011 Award Presentation)
… Read more...Feedback from the conference evaluations:
Dear Ms. Kent,
As you may know, the post-conference evaluation survey for the Business Language Conference