BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Linguistics - ECPv6.3.4//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Linguistics X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://uwm.edu/linguistics X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Linguistics REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20190310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20191103T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190503T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190503T163000 DTSTAMP:20240328T134454 CREATED:20181213T221815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190406T044618Z UID:1276-1556895600-1556901000@uwm.edu SUMMARY:Colloquium: Benjamin Campbell DESCRIPTION:Linguistics Department Colloquium: \nBenjamin Campbell (Department of Anthropology\, UWM) \nThe Role of the Insula in the Emergence of Human Language \nLanguage is a hallmark of the human species and its evolutionary origins have long been the topic of speculation among anthropologists\, linguists and evolutionary biologists. However\, despite a raft of evolutionary scenarios the emergence of language from pre-existing primate communication remains improbable as long as language can’t be shown to be an honest signal. In this talk I discuss the role of the insula as a neurological structure linking emotion and sensation with language production. Doing so reveals the important of bodily awareness of self and others as the key factor in enabling communication to act as a socially cooperative behavior within primates\, a trait that has been taken to new heights in humans. I then speculate about the existence of red ochre in the human evolutionary record as an indication of the origins of full blown self-consciousness and language. URL:https://uwm.edu/linguistics/event/colloquium-benjamin-campbell/ LOCATION:Holton 180 CATEGORIES:Colloquia END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR