Events
Adam Albright: "Testing phonological biases with Artificial Grammar learning experiments"
As with most linguistic input, the data that children receive about phonological patterns is rife with ambiguity. For example, children hearing voicing alternations in German ( ~ ‘thief-sg./pl.’, ~ ‘mouse-sg./pl.’) receive no evidence as to whether a single final devoicing process affects all word-final obstruents, or just the subset of obstruents that German happens to […]
FreeMadeline Lane-McKinley: "Free Love Utopias: A Feminist Spatial Analysis of New Communalism"
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
FreeCANCELLED: Abe Stone: "Why Does Space Have More than One Dimension?"
Humanities 1, Room 202At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. Coffee, tea, and […]
FreeFranco Berardi, Seminar Discussion: "Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFranco "Bifo" Berardi will be leading a seminar discussion based on "Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization," an excerpt from his forthcoming book And – Phenomenology of the End. Participants are invited to read the text and join the discussion. The text can be downloaded at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ax682ecxgn4jtzi/Franco%20Berardi%2C%20Aesthetic%20Genealogy%20of%20Globalization.pdf?dl=0. This seminar is part of the series “What Is […]
FreeFranco "Bifo" Berardi: "Social Morphogenesis: The Historical Transition from Revolution to Disentanglement"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe subject of this lecture comes from the recent experience of the Occupy movement against financial capitalism. It investigates the political and conceptual limits of these movements, and their inability to put an end to the financial aggression. Focusing on the main actors of the Occupy process – the precarious cognitive workers, embodying the Marx's […]
FreeThor Sawin and Jason Martel: "Fostering foreign language learners’ speaking through ongoing feedback"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIt is now well accepted in foreign language pedagogy that assessment is not solely an end-‐of-‐unit activity. Rather, it is important for teachers to monitor learners’ language development using a variety of techniques throughout the course of a unit of study. Among the many skills to be assessed in foreign language classrooms, speaking presents unique […]
FreeCrystal Am Nelson: "We Ain't Gotta Be This: Queering Sites of Blackness, an Aesthetic Approach"
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
FreeDigital Happy Hour: Why Digital Humanities?
Cowell Senior Commons Room Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the Digital Humanities Research Cluster for an informal cocktail hour. The first of a series of casual get togethers will start with the question, "Why the Digital Humanities?" Meet other scholars doing digital work and contribute to a conversation that will help shape what digital scholarship looks like at UC Santa Cruz. Open to all faculty, […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Katie Crouch
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKatie Crouch is a New York Times bestselling novelist and essayist. Her books include Girls in Trucks, Men and Dogs, and Abroad. She has also written two novels for young adults, and has contributed to The London Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Slate, Salon and Glamour. She has a regular column on The Rumpus called […]
FreeFacebook Employee Panel Discussion on Careers
Cervantes & Velasquez Room, Baytree Conference Center Bay Tree Conference Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesInterested in working in tech but currently pursuing a degree outside the hard sciences? Come hear from a panel of Facebook content strategists who work in the field of user experience design. They'll share information about: • The content strategy profession • How their career paths have taken shape • Pursuing careers in tech with […]
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