Friday, March 3, 2006
2005-2006/044
Anthropologist from University of Arizona
visits U. of I. March 9 for two lectures
URBANA—Dr. Norma Mendoza-Denton of the department of anthropology at the University of Arizona will give two lectures at the University of Illinois on Thursday, March 9.
Mendoza-Denton will give a lecture entitled, The Sociophonics of Face-Threatening Behavior, or, How to Lose your Cool with your Congressman,” at noon in Room 4136, Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana.
She also will present a talk entitled, “Smile Now, Cry Later: Acting Hardcore in a Chicano Anti-Language,” at 4 p.m. in Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building.
Both lectures are free and are open to the public.
In her noon lecture, Mendoza-Denton will discuss research that took place at 10 town hall meetings held by Republican Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-5th district, AZ). Kolbe agreed to be taped as part of a nonpartisan research project. Representaive Kolbe allowed the presence of cameras at the town hall meetings over a period of 14 months during 2000-2001.
In her 4 p.m. lecture, Mendoza-Denton will share her findings from fieldwork she conducted from 1994-1997 in and around a Northern California High School, observing and working with Latina and Latino youth involved in gangs.
Mendoza-Denton’s visit to the U. of I. is sponsored by the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese.
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