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  • Kathryn Pruitt: "Culminativity in Harmonic Serialism"

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Abstract: This talk considers the typology of word-headedness in languages with iterative stress and discusses a traditional classification of such systems—top-down vs. bottom-up (Hayes 1995)—in the context of Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy 2010). In some languages the primary stress is autonomous, having properties that are different from those of its secondary stresses, which has been used […]

  • An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project

    Nickelodeon Theater 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Nickelodeon Theatre will host "An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project" on Thursday January 30 in conjunction with the screening of "The Invisible Woman" film, showing at 6:50 pm. The film, which stars Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens, is based on the Claire Tomalin book of the same title, delves into the closely-held secret […]

  • Living Writers Series: Rachel Swirsky and Sina Grace

    Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! Fantasy Writer Rachel Swirsky has published over fifty short stories in venues including The New Haven Review, Tor.com and Clarkesworld Magazine. Her speculative fiction has been nominated for most of the genre's major awards, including the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award, […]

  • North French Hebrew Miscellany

    McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special Collections

    Come to Special Collections to look at and learn about a spectacular book recently acquired by Special Collections. UCSC Special Collections has recently acquired a facsimile of one of the world’s most important medieval Jewish manuscripts, the North French Hebrew Miscellany. The manuscript was written and lavishly illustrated in northern France in about 1280 at […]

  • Mayanthi Fernando: "Improper Intimacies, or the Cunning of Secularism"

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Mayanthi Fernando works on religion, politics, and the secular. Her first book on the Islamic revival and French secularity will be out in 2014. Her new project examines the nexus of sex, religion, and secularism, and in particular the French state's regulation of Muslim women's sexual and religious intimacies. Mayanthi Fernando is Assistant Professor of Anthropology […]

  • Silvia Perpiñan: "Microparametric variation among Romance languages: the L2 acquisition of Spanish locative and existential constructions by Catalan and Italian speakers"

    Humanities 1, Room 202

    Abstract: Selection of copula verbs in Spanish is a classic challenging area for L2 learners. Even so, it has received moderate attention on SLA research, and most of the studies have focused on the acquisition of the semantic and pragmatic distinctions between ser and estar, particularly when combined with adjectives (Bruhn de Garavito & Valenzuela, […]

  • Misfit Horror Film Series: The House with Laughing Windows

    Stevenson, Room 150

    The House with Laughing Windows (1976, dir. Pupi Avati) - a moody and masterful giallo (Italian thriller / mystery / slasher film) One of the most remarkable (albeit atypical) examples of a giallo (Italian mystery-thriller-slasher film) out there, Pupi Avati’s The House with Laughing Windows is a masterpiece of mood and ambient creepiness whose ability to stretch an […]

  • Gabriela Zapata: "Investigating the Connection between Learning and Assessment: Formative Assessment in Intermediate L2 Spanish Classes"

    Humanities 1, Room 202

    Abstract: This paper investigates the connection between learning and assessment by examining the implementation of ACTFL’s Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in intermediate, L2 Spanish classes. There were 880 students who participated in this classroom-based study. This presentation will discuss the following: 1) the theoretical and pedagogical bases of IPA; 2) the materials and tasks that […]

  • Annie Gagliardi: "Grammar-parser tension in language acquisition: Evidence from Q'anjob'al relative clauses"

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Built into the grammatical architecture of any language we find constraints on possible structures. The processing system that uses these structures appears to have inherent preferences in how we interpret them. By looking at a domain where there exists tension between what constraint a learner might expect their language to conform to and the interpretations […]

  • Martin Devecka: "Some Ends of the City: Ruins and Utopia in the Ancient World"

    Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Mediterranean Studies: Ancient Comparative Why do ruins happen? Are they caused by natural catastrophes, invasions, economic collapse, state failure, or by something else? This talk will address these questions from a new perspective, integrating sociological comparison […]

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