The Department of Linguistics/TESL Presents Sarah MacDugall Ph.D. Student, University at Buffalo Background: The question of whether a hotdog is a sandwich has been asked around dinner tables with friends, at water coolers with coworkers, and in an interview between Stephen Colbert and late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Despite the cult popularity of… Continue reading The Sandwich Space: Using Statistical Breakdowns to Explore Semantic Categories

In conjunction with Queer studies 369, guest speaker Xenari Damain will decontextualize Muxe identity as a third gender in Juchitán society. This presentation will be followed by a short embroidery workshop which will center muxhedad of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec artistic forms of knowledge production as a decolonizing project. Students, staff, and faculty are invited… Continue reading Muxe Identity in the Flesh

This performance is free and open to the whole university community.

Adnan Jaber & Michal Greenfield of Standing Together, a co-existence organization that builds community between Jews and Palestinians in Israel. Adnan Jaber is an entrepreneur and lecturer. He founded the PeaceTech Affinity Group. Michal Greenfield is an artist, community organizer, and operations coordinator for the interfaith organization NewGround.