William Diver / One-Day Conference: May 31

[Nancy Stern]

*You are invited to a one-day conference marking the publication of:*

* *

*Language: Communication and Human Behavior*

*The Linguistic Essays of William Diver*

Edited by Alan Huffman & Joseph Davis

Brill Publishers



Faculty House, Columbia University

May 31, 2012



*Event is free of charge, but pre-registration is required. Send a message *
*to *conf2012 at csling.org





9:45    *Greetings  *



9:55     *Introduction of  volume editors Alan Huffman and Joseph Davis
(Wallis Reid, Rutgers University)*



10:00 - 10:45    *"A Beginning Point, not an End Point" *(Alan Huffman,
CUNY Graduate Center)



10:50 - 11:20    *"God is not in the Index" *(Joseph Davis, The City
College of New York)



11:20 - 11:50     Discussion



11:50 - 12:20    An informal discussion by editors Alan Huffman and Joseph
Davis about the evolution of the Diver volume



12:30 - 2:00    LUNCH



 2:00 - 2:30     *“Diver's ideas from an anthropological perspective" *(Ellen
Contini-Morava, University of Virginia)



2:30 - 3:00      Discussion of Contini-Morava's paper followed by
contributions from the audience on the topic of Diver's ideas and their
impact.



3:15 - 4:00      *“Diver's ideas from a sociolinguistic perspective”
(Ricardo, Otheguy, CUNY Graduate Center)*



4:00 - 4:30      Discussion of Otheguy's paper followed by contributions
from the audience



4:30 - 5:00      Personal reminiscences of Diver from his students



5:00 - 6:00       RECEPTION



This event is sponsored by Columbia University Seminars and the Columbia
School Linguistic Society (www.csling.org).

*For more information or to register for the event, write to
conf2012 at csling.org*