As part of the 2024 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station in northern Michigan, Dr. Cherry Meyer, an assistant professor of American culture and linguistics at the University of Michigan, will give a talk titled “What the Animacy Distinction (Grammatical Gender) May or May Not Reveal about Nishnaabe Worldview.”

The event on the Pellston campus is free and open to the public.

Meyer is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of the Chippewa Indians and a linguist working with the Ojibwe language. Her research interests include language documentation and revitalization, semantics, morphology, noun categorization, grammatical gender and classifiers.

Founded in 1909, UMBS is one of the nation’s largest and longest continuously operating field research stations.

Laboratories and cabins are tucked into more than 10,000 acres along Douglas Lake just south of the Mackinac Bridge to support long-term climate research and education.