https://humanitiesday2018.uchicago.edu/sessions/keynote-address 11 A.M.–Noon en https://humanitiesday2018.uchicago.edu/bios/christopher-kennedy <div class="field field-name-field-bio-photo field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://humanitiesday2018.uchicago.edu/sites/humanitiesday2018.uchicago.edu/files/styles/medium/public/ChrisKennedy1_0.jpg?itok=tlir1r2j" width="220" height="146" alt="Christopher Kennedy" title="Christopher Kennedy" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-titlereference field-type-node-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Presentation:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/presentations/truth">Truth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-session field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Session:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/sessions/keynote-address" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Keynote Address</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-discipline field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Linguistics</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Christopher Kennedy’s research is geared toward discovering and describing the principles that are involved in relating linguistic forms to meanings. He delves deeply into how this mapping is achieved through language, cognition, communication, and context. Kennedy is the William H. Colvin Professor of Linguistics.</p></div></div></div> Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:24:36 +0000 sspatterson 774 at https://humanitiesday2018.uchicago.edu https://humanitiesday2018.uchicago.edu/bios/christopher-kennedy#comments https://humanitiesday2018.uchicago.edu/presentations/truth <div class="field field-name-field-presenter field-type-node-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Presenter:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/bios/christopher-kennedy">Christopher Kennedy</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-session field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/sessions/keynote-address" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Keynote Address</a></div></div></div><div class="field-name-field-room hidden"><div class="field-label views-label">Location</div><div class="field-item">Reynolds Club, Mandel Hall<br/><a href="https://maps.uchicago.edu/location/mandel-hall/">Map it</a></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>We are warned with increasing urgency that we are becoming a “post-truth” society. But what is truth? What role does it play in thought and communications? And why should we care about it?</p></div></div></div> Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:25:40 +0000 sspatterson 821 at https://humanitiesday2018.uchicago.edu https://humanitiesday2018.uchicago.edu/presentations/truth#comments