Sentence examples for academic talk from inspiring English sources

It seemed bizarre that events so serious would be linked causally with a rarefied form of academic talk.

It's a cultural-studies cliche to point out the ways in which socially sanctioned limits are transgressed; but academic talk of the "liminal" is less annoying when the subject being discussed actually is the limen — "threshold," in Latin.

Truog, the director of the Center of Bioethics at Harvard, said that once, when he gave an academic talk on brain death, he described it as a catastrophic brain injury, rather than death.

As Paul Edwards, professor of information and history at the University of Michigan, writes in his paper, How to Give an Academic Talk: "You've seen it a hundred times.

"Every academic talk I give," she told me as we made our way to lunch near Harvard Square, "someone raises their hand and says, 'Who the hell are you to say these stories aren't true?"' Not long ago, Clancy appeared as a guest on a nationally syndicated radio show that takes a broad-minded view of the paranormal.

While Williams is not beyond resorting to the unlovely lingo of "hybridity," it is nevertheless one of the virtues of "Playing the Race Card" that she mainly dispenses with the cant and silliness that tangles much academic talk about racial matters.

As did the "America" series, this gallop through history relies only partly on academic talking heads.

His students were big fans of his lectures, and having seen him give academic talks, I can see why.

They were aghast at a meeting of the British-Irish academicion, an academic talking shop, as they gathered around the television.

During the same period, Mr. Hardt has given 21 academic talks and received tenure from Duke (a year early).

"At this stage of our research, though, we've been trying to communicate our results largely through academic talks and peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals," he wrote in an e-mail message.