Science and Society via Film: Arrival

Aaron Doliana, a PhD student in Linguistics, looking to the right in the foreground and smiling, as Professor Juan Uriagereka looks to the left and smiles in the background

Science and Society via Film: Arrival

Linguistics | Maryland Language Science Center Tuesday, February 15, 2022 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center, 2208

As part of the course Science & Society Via Film, Juan Uriagereka (LING, SLLC) is hosting a screening and discussion of Arrival, a film about "a linguistics professor [who] gets to live in a mansion by a lake," as Juan puts it, and learns to converse with seven-legged squid-like extraterrestrial creatures. Here is a close reading of the fictional linguist's office.

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As part of the course Science & Society Via Film, Juan Uriagereka (LING, SLLC) is hosting a screening and discussion of Arrival, a film about "a linguistics professor [who] gets to live in a mansion by a lake," as Juan puts it, and learns to converse with seven-legged squid-like extraterrestrial creatures. Here is a close reading of the fictional linguist's office.

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