Events
Joel Kaminsky: “Does God Play Favorites?: A Dialogue on Chosenness in Genesis”
Porter College, Room 144Professor Kaminsky will explore various motifs surrounding the theme of special divine favor toward certain individuals and groups that pervades Genesis in hopes of illuminating these often troubling narratives. The talk will be conducted as a dialogue prompted by questions raised by Professor Nathaniel Deutsch and the students in his course. Joel S. Kaminsky is […]
FreeStacey Katz Bourns: “Integrating Grammar Pedagogy within New Frameworks for Language Instruction”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesForeign language programs in the 21st Century are in a period of transition. Many applied linguistics researchers now consider Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) to be antiquated and are initiating alternate approaches, some more compelling than others. Central to the discussion is the always-controversial topic of grammar pedagogy. How should grammar be taught and learned? How […]
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Enduring Power – Photography Exhibit – Nov. 2 – Dec. 17
Resource Center for Non ViolenceEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story — A Photography Exhibit — November 2 – December 17, 2015 AT: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA Exhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment, 831-423-1626 Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural, Enduring Power’s striking images […]
FreeElliott Moreton: “Implicit and Explicit Learning of Phonotactic Patterns”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: What properties are shared by the processes used for learning linguistic and non-linguistic patterns? What properties are different? Research on non-linguistic (mainly visual) pattern learning has found distinct implicit and explicit processes which have different computational architectures, are facilitated by different experimental conditions, and differ in sensitivity to different pattern types. Is the same […]
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Friday Forum: Antoinette Wilson “Who Do You Think You Are: The Role of Racial Typicality on In-group Belonging and Stereotyping among African American Youth”
Humanities 1, Room 202Antoinette Wilson is a PhD candidate in Developmental Psychology. Her work investigates ways in which in-group members judge and validate racial authenticity (e.g., accusations of “acting White” and bias based on skin tone). Central to her research is exploring adolescents’ perceptions of “Who fits in?”, “Who is typical of our group”, and “Who is ‘really’ […]
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Working for Dignity: A Community Discussion on Raising the Minimum Wage
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryThis event launches the final report from the Working for Dignity: Low-Wage Worker Study of Santa Cruz County, produced by UCSC Center for Labor Studies, and a community conversation on economic justice. The event will include a panel discussion on the state-wide campaign to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, featuring local workers […]
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Living Writers: Juliana Spahr & Jasper Bernes
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJuliana Spahr Mills College Juliana Spahr edits the book series Chain Links with Jena Osman and the collectively funded Subpress with nineteen other people and Commune Editions with Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes. With David Buuck she wrote Army of Lovers. She has edited with Stephanie Young A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some […]
FreeCasey O’Callaghan “The Multisensory Character of Perception”
Humanities 2, Room 259Abstract: My thesis is that perceptual awareness itself is richly multisensory. I argue for this conclusion on the grounds that certain forms of multisensory perceptual experience are incompatible with the claim that each aspect of a perceptual experience is associated with some specific sensory modality or another. First, I explicate what it is for some […]
Catherine Ramírez: “'Our Porto Ricans': Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1898-1923"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCatherine Ramírez works on 20th-century Mexican-American history, histories of migration and assimilation, Latino literature, feminist theory, and comparative ethnic studies. She is writing a book on the history of assimilation in the U.S. and was recently awarded a grant from the Mellon Foundation for her work on migration, belonging, and non-citizenship. Ramírez is Associate Professor […]
FreeEnduring Power – Photography Exhibit – Nov. 2 – Dec. 17
Resource Center for Non ViolenceEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story — A Photography Exhibit — November 2 – December 17, 2015 AT: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA Exhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment, 831-423-1626 Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural, Enduring Power’s striking images […]
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