The document announces a panel on language featuring five experts: Lera Boroditsky, Jeanne Finley, Amy X Neuburg, Curtis Frank, and Piero Scaruffi. It also lists seven artists who will be showing their work in an art show in the lobby: Salma Arastu, Jon Kuzmich, Jon Gourley, Lordy Rodriguez, Carissa Potter, Sarah Tell, and Renetta Sitoy. The panel will discuss topics related to how we understand language and why we understand it the way we do.

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CAST
Panel:
• Lera Boroditsky
• Jeanne Finley
• Amy X Neuburg
• Curtis Frank
• Piero Scaruffi
Art show:
• Salma Arastu
• Jon Kuzmich
• Jon Gourley
• Lordy Rodriguez
• Carissa Potter
• Sarah Tell
• Renetta Sitoy
• Gabriel Edwards
What we understand is not enough to understand why we understand it

2. Tonight’s panel on
Language
LERA JEANNE AMY X CURTIS PIERO
BORODITSK FINLEY NEUBURG FRANK SCARUFFI
Y (Stanford (Filmmaker) (Musician) (Stanford Cultural
Psychology) Chemical historian
Engineering)
Audio interviews & reading material: www.smmmash.com
Feedback: scaruffi@stanford.edu

3. Sarah Tell's hard ground
etching "How we Stifle our
Words to Protect our Heart"
Lordy Rodriguez's
postcard-size drawings
"Visual Language Maps
- Postcards 3/11"
ART IN THE LOBBY

4. Salma Arastu's poem-painting
"Rumi's Language of Love"
Renetta Sitoy's two-
channel video "Words
as Empty Promises"
ART IN THE LOBBY

5. Jon Gourley's prints "Meta
is a Four-letter Word"
Jon Kuzmich's paintings
"Logos : John",
"Logos : I Kings" and
"Logos : Song of
Soloman"
ART IN THE LOBBY

6. Carissa Potter's art books
"4 Poems of Love and A
Sonnet of Despair, by
Pablo Neruda
Gabriel Edwards'
painting "Verba non
Facta" (acrylic and
house paint on board)
ART IN THE LOBBY

7. Carissa Potter's art books
"4 Poems of Love and A
Sonnet of Despair, by
Pablo Neruda
Gabriel Edwards'
painting "Verba non
Facta" (acrylic and
house paint on board)
ART IN THE LOBBY