<div dir="ltr">Thanks, David,for amplifying my sense of freedom as well as connection by posting this to the list. <div>I note that in translating his speech for posting on Facebook, Yariv omitted what I found to be a particularly intriguing part in which he specified three concepts he took from the class in Lang & Culture I taught over 20 years ago. How many times have you asked yourselves what of all that you have taught will actually stick? It's a question we hardly have occasions to get answers for. I guess faculty retirement events can be seen as meta-communication rituals in which talk about talk plays a distinctive role (and could be fruitfully explored). So here's what Yariv (who's a quantitative political comm scholar) said - the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the notion of 'rhetoric of objectivity', the third I'm not sure about, perhaps sg to do with lang and gender, and my forgetfulness indicates I'm doing well to wrap up my teaching career.</div><div>Cheers to you all,</div><div>Tamar</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:54 PM, David Boromisza-Habashi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dbh@colorado.edu" target="_blank">dbh@colorado.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Tamar has recently taught her last university class. Her colleagues celebrated her accomplishments with, as she put it, "sweet cake and sweet words." The link below will take you to a series of photos from the celebration.
Below the link you can find the English-language translation of department chair Yariv Tsfati's account of his and Tamar's colleagues' visit to her final class. Cheers, David</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://hevra.haifa.ac.il/comm/index.php/en/2013-09-14-05-15-37/news/885-2015-01-27-12-45-17" target="_blank">http://hevra.haifa.ac.il/comm/index.php/en/2013-09-14-05-15-37/news/885-2015-01-27-12-45-17</a><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">"<span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Just to share with you the best moment of my day. Our faculty and dean showed up today at Prof. Tamar Katriel’s final class before retiring in October. It
was a great opportunity for me to thank Tamar, first, as a former student. The “language, culture and communication” class I took with her twenty years ago has had a lasting impact on me, not only as a comm scholar, but also as human being. Each of the hundreds
of students she taught (well, at least those who listened..) carries this important baggage with them.</span></font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Second, I thanked Tamar for mentoring some of our best grad students. Many of Tamar’s grad students continued in academic life, and
today, these alums do the best imaginable service for our department’s reputation over the world.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Third, I told students that Tamar’s enormous wisdom had served the department in various roles, capacities and committees she had served
on over the years, and this has had helped incredibly in making our department the great place that it is.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Finally, this was a very moving moment for me personally, because, as I said at the event, over the past 15 years since I’ve joined
the department I’ve only seen people come in. No one retired. It is extremely inspiring to see someone not only surviving the University of Haifa, but also leaving it with a sense of accomplishment, pride on generations of students and years of ground breaking
research, and heading forward to many years of creation and fresh and innovative ideas."</span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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David Boromisza-Habashi, Ph.D.<br>
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