Giving AVATAR Its Voice: Creating the Na'vi Language
Date/Time: | Thursday, 03 Feb 2011 at 8:00 pm |
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Location: | Great Hall, Memorial Union |
Cost: | Free |
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Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
Channel: | Lecture Series |
Categories: | Lectures |
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Frommer has an eclectic background that includes teaching in Malaysia with the Peace Corps, working as a strategic planner and business writer in the corporate world and, more recently, as a professor in the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, where he was director of the Center for Management Communication. Frommer earned a Ph.D. in linguistics from USC, with a dissertation on aspects of Persian syntax. He also created the Martian language for the Disney film John Carter of Mars.
Go to Paul Frommer's personal blog about all aspects of Na'vi: naviteri.org