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FEBRUARY
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:30 pm free
XXXIV JAR Lecture
"The Birth of Language: The Formation and Spread of the Colonial
Yucatec Maya Language." William F. Hanks, Distinguished Professor & Chair
Linguistic Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
William Hanks will discuss the post-conquest Spanish policy of reducción, a kind of enforced hispanization by means of transformation of the Maya language in the Yucatan Peninsula, along with Christianization, resettlement and a degree of cultural assimiliation , which meant conversion to Spanish Catholicism. The legacy of this long process is apparent in the Yucatec Maya language and culture of today.
Dr. Hanks is Distinguished Professor of Anthropological Linguistics at the University of California Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics & Anthropology at the University of Chicago in 1983. He began his teaching career at Chicago and then became a professor at Northwestern, before moving to Berkeley. Dr. Hanks has also taught at the University of Texas Austin and has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Université de Paris-Nanterre, the University of Copenhagen, the Casa de America in Madrid and at the International Center for Semiotic & Cognitive Studies in San Marino.
Anthropology Lecture Hall (Room 163)
Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:00 -1:00 pm free
JAR Specialized Seminar
"Conversion - Religious and Other. The Franciscans and the Maya." William F. Hanks, Distinguished Professor & Chair Linguistic Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Prof. Hanks is one of the foremost current experts in the colonial and contemporary Maya. He is a leading theoretician of people’s use of language to situate and orient themselves in space. He is also involved with the study of modern day Maya shamanism through participant-observation, the study of the colonial history of the Yucatan and New Spain more generally. He is increasingly interested in early modern Spain and the evolution of the Spanish language, particularly as spoken in the New Spain.
Roberts Room, 2nd Floor Scholes Hall (west)
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