Whamit!

The Weekly Newsletter of MIT Linguistics

Issue of Monday, March 22nd, 2021

DeGraff panelist at conference “Justice Now? Tackling legacies of Europe’s colonial past in the wake of #BlackLivesMatter”


On Monday, March 22, 2021, Michel DeGraff will participate in the online conference “Justice Now? Tackling legacies of Europe’s colonial past in the wake of #BlackLivesMatter” organized by MIT Anthropology and Avocats Sans Frontières.   Michel will be part of the first panel at 10:30am: “Provocations: What should justice look like?”

More information about the symposium can be found in the link below:
https://justicenowsymposium.wordpress.com/

DeGraff gives public lecture at Concordia University

On Thursday, February 25, 2021, the Black Perspectives Office and the Center for Cognitive Science at Concordia University presented a public lecture by Michel DeGraff:

#BlackLivesMatter​ → #OurLanguagesMatter​
Language rights are HUMAN rights—in Haiti and beyond

The abstract is available here:

https://www.concordia.ca/cuevents/main/2021/02/25/black-lives-matter-our-languages-matter.html

and the video of the lecture is now available here:

https://www.facebook.com/mithaiti/videos/900073544075724

and here:

https://youtu.be/MQZs3fD-Z4E