Monthly Luncheon Meeting
When roses and chocolates just won't do!
Luncheon Program:
Understanding Body Language
811 W. Live Oak Street, 78704
444-4747
Wednesday,
September 15
Cotillion Room
at Green Pastures
"Grande Dame of
Austin Restaurants"
Austin Chronicle
Directions from north on MoPac: Exit 5th/Cesar Chavez. Follow 1st Street (Cesar Chavez) to Guadalupe. Go south on Guadalupe which turns into South 1st Street. Follow to West Live Oak and turn right. Follow West Live Oak to 811 on your left.
Directions from south on MoPac: Exit Ben White East (290/71). Exit 1st Street. Go north on 1st Street. Two blocks north of Oltorf, turn left on West Live Oak. 811 is on the left.
Chef Charles Bloemsma
will select the menu,
which will include
a salad or soup,
entrée, dessert and
cotillion rolls
Iced Tea and Coffee
Special dietary needs
can be accommodated
if necessary
by notifying
the luncheon director
Social Hour: 11:00 AM
Luncheon: 12:00 Noon
PRICE: $20.00
RSVP required
by Thursday,
September 9
Newcomers luncheon is every 3rd Wednesday of the month
What do your gestures say? Your body language? The facial expressions of someone to whom you are talking?
Dr Jurgen Streeck, who has
written extensively on studies he’s done in this area, will be our speaker at the September luncheon. He is Associate Professor in
the Departments of Communication Studies and German Studies at the University of Texas. He also serves on the faculty of the programs
in Foreign Language Education and African and African-American Studies.
His main area of expertise is the study of face-to-face interaction
in
real-life settings with a focus on uses and coordination of gestures,
speech and other media communication. He has conducted
field research in Germany, USA, the Philippines, Bali and Columbia, South America .
He teaches undergraduate classes on social interaction
and visual
media, intercultural communication, and hip-hop/rap. He trains
graduate students in analysis of human interaction.
Dr Streeck
was President of the International Society of Gesture
Studies and serves on the editorial board of Gestures. He is the author of Gesturecraft:
The Manu-facture of Meaning, several books on child communication and many articles.
Personally. Dr Streeck loves music, from jazz,
hip-hop, Latin to
classical music of the 18th and 19th centuries. He has an eclectic
taste in art, from Renaissance and Baroque to modern
(since 1940’s). He is interested in international politics and is a member of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
