Monday, December 4, 2017, 11 AM – 1 PM EST
[NOTE: extended session, presentation plus holiday party, 11:00-1:00]
SUSAN SOCOLOW, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emerita of Latin American History
“Life, Luck, Language, and How I Became a Historian”
In 2015, in response to widespread demand, Cambridge University Press released a second (and thoroughly updated) edition of Susan Socolow’s much acclaimed text on Women of Colonial Latin America. We had thought we might persuade Susan to address that subject matter in her presentation to us, but instead she has decided to address the subject that has made it possible for her to do the work represented in that text and indeed in all of the scholarly work she has done (not to mention how much it has enabled all of the fun she has had along the way).
That subject? Well, let’s say that subject is habilidades lingüísticas, or compétences linguistiques, or Sprachkenntnisse, or abilità linguistiche.
¿Qué dice este? (you might well ask) or Que dit-il? or Was sagt das? or Che cosa dire? Of course, we rather imagine you can answer any and all of these questions. And we think you’ll be as pleased as we are to know that Susan will be addressing the subject of linguistic competence and how (as her own experience has shown her) it can open professional (and social) doors well worth walking through, all over the world.
It can even help globalize holiday celebrations like the one we’ll enjoy after Susan’s presentation concludes. In the meantime, by way of prologue to the party, we hereby wish you all Feliz Navidad! or Joyeux Noël! or Fröhliche Weihnachten! or Buon Natale! or (and here’s an All-American phrase) Whatever.