History of the Language Sciences
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Upcoming Meetings
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Past Meetings
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September 12, 2023
Introductions, "Epistemic Transfer"
For this first meeting, we invite all participants to bring an image, slide, excerpt, artifact, or recording to share and discuss. We hope that these will help us introduce our interests to one another and, ideally, to frame the theme of epistemic transfer, which will guide our readings and presentations this year. With this thematic focus, our goal is to highlight historical interactions between the language sciences and other knowledge traditions, so we heartily welcome objects for show-and-tell that come from outside mainstream linguistics. Participants are encouraged to think about instances where transfers (e.g., of methods, concepts, tools, and norms) have been embraced, mediated, resisted, or even refused. To inform our discussion and analysis of these objects, we ask everyone to please read the essay "History of Science and History of Philologies" by Lorraine Daston and Glenn Most before coming to the meeting.
Group Conveners
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Raul Aranovich
Raúl Aranovich is a theoretical linguist working on the interfaces between syntax, morphology, and semantics. His research focuses on grammatical mismatches between these levels. Professor Aranovich specializes in the grammars of Spanish and other Romance languages, but also Austronesian and Bantu languages. He employs empirical methods using natural language processing and corpus linguistics tools, which recently have lead him to work on ontologies and language graph representations for linguistics. More recently, he has turned his attention to the history of linguistics, trying to develop a contextualized epistemology of the discipline. He earned a Ph.D. in linguistics from UC San Diego in 1996, under the direction of Profs. S.-Y. Kuroda and John Moore. He has been at UC Davis since 2001, and is currently full professor. He held faculty positions at the Ohio State University and the University of Texas in San Antonio before joining UC Davis.
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Kevin Chang
Kevin Chang works at Taiwan’s national academy, Academia Sinica in Taipei. He received his PhD at the University of Chicago and started as a historian of science and medicine in early modern Europe. He has since expanded his research areas to the global history of higher education, media studies, the comparative history of philology and language sciences. He co-edited World Philology (Havard UP, 2015) with Sheldon Pollock and Benjamin Elman, Impagination: Materiality and Layout of Writing and Publication (De Gruyter, 2021) with Anthony Grafton and Glenn Most, and A Global History of Research Education (Oxford UP, 2021) with Alan Rocke. He has completed a manuscript on the global history of the dissertation as a genre of academic writing.
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Judy Kaplan
Judy Kaplan is a cultural and intellectual historian of the human sciences with a focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century linguistic research. She has published widely on subjects from orientalism to sound studies and is currently working on a new project that unravels histories of research on language universals. She is the NSF Fellow in Residence at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
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