Senior Research Scholar
The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies
The University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor of English
University of Maryland University College
Ranjit Chatterjee
Ph.D. The University of Chicago
"The language thread in the modernist project of
linguistics, literary studies, Wittgenstein, and Judaism."

LECTURES
2008 "Language & Peace." Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Peace Education Workshop, January 4-5, Israel/Palestine
  Attended Annual Theology Conference, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, January 20-23
2006 "Why Wittgenstein? Why Religion? Why Judaism?" Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland-College Park, February 16
  "Wittgenstein as an Iceberg: Exploring the Jewish Depths." Department of Philosophy and Religion, American University, Washington, DC , March 28
2005 Invited Speaker, EXTRAPOLIS International Summer School, Ancona/Falconara, Italy, July 11-29. Presentation: "Without Walls and Beyond Words: The City and the Critique of Language."
  Respondent, Panel on Wittgenstein and Judaism: Language, Psychology, Prophecy. Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Washington, DC, December 18-20.
  "Wittgenstein: No Christian, But a Judaic Esoteric." National Seminar on Wittgenstein, Ethics and Religious Belief.Ó Government College, Dharamshala, India, September 28-30. Sponsored by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research and the University Grants Commission.
2004 "Wittgenstein: Introduction to Concealment." English Graduate Student Association, George Washington U., Washington, DC, November 18
1995 "Wittgenstein and the Dissolution of Privacy." Interdepartmental Committee on Linguistics, Duke University, November 10
1994 "Deconstruction and Peace." Panel on Peace and Pedagogy, Midwest MLA, Chicago, November (with Ed Berggren)
1992 "Linguistics of Privacy." DePaul U. Faculty Seminar Series, November 2
  Pew Consultation on "The Challenge of Faith in the Academy," Assoc. for Religion and Intellectual Life, March 22-25, Turner Center, Emory U., Atlanta, GA
1991 "'A Secret Politic of the Woman': Feminism and the Future of Architecture." Invited Lecture, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago, February 13.
  "Derrida and Rabbinical Thought: Some Implications for Ethnography." 90th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 25.
  "After Privacy: Linguistic Reflections on the Personal and the Political." Conference on "The Paradoxes of Democracy" sponsored by the Institute of Psychology, National Council of Research, Italy, and the Gramsci Foundation. Rome, December 12-14.
  "The Rhetorics of Reference as the Politics of Language." Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, Toronto, Canada. Panel organized by Paul J. Hopper, Carnegie-Mellon University, with Deborah Tannen. December 27-29.
1989 "Wittgenstein as a Jewish Thinker," X. World Cong. of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, August 16-24 (C/37, Modern Jewish Philosophy).
1982 "Goethe and Asia." Goethe Institute, Singapore, on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of GoetheÕs Death.
  "Chomsky and Wittgenstein on Word Meaning," XIII World Congress of Linguists, Tokyo.
  "The Notion of Rule and the Scientificity of Linguistics," Working Group 1 (History and Philosophy of Science and Linguistics), XIII World Congress of Linguists, Tokyo.
1979 UCLA Symposium: "Tense/Aspect: Between Semantics and Pragmatics." Invited Discussant.