Events

This talk explores luxury as one way that hierarchy, social distance, and subordination are felt affectively by bodies in consumption-oriented societies. The project seeks to upend a tradition of social […]

Earll Kingston, a fourth generation Californian, has performed with many Bay Area Theatres including the Berkeley Rep, The Magic Theatre, The Aurora Theatre, and Anima Mundi. While living in Hawaii he acted in various episodes of "Hawaii 5-0" and "Magnum P.I.". From 1990 to 1997 Kingston performed "Down The Great Unknown" at the Grand Canyon […]

Presented by the Linguistics Research Center, UCSC. For more information, please contact Debbie Belville at irc@ling.ucsc.edu.

A Conversation with Michael Scherer - White House Correspondent for TIME Magazine and UCSC Literature/Creative Writing Alum. Questions? Contact: Micah Perks meperks@ucsc.edu Flyer is available here.

The Asian Diasporas Research Cluster at the Institute of Humanities Research is pleased to present the following film screening: IN THE MATTER OF CHA JUNG HEE (2010) preceded by a documentary short-in-progress on the Korean War, MEMORY OF THE FORGOTTEN WAR, and followed by Q & A with filmmaker, Deann Borshay Liem Poster available here. […]

This talk discusses the narrative of Hernando Fontaneda de Escalante, a 16th century former captive and a Creole man born in Cartagena de Indias, who lived for seventeen years among the Calusa Indians of Florida. His account is considered one of the most extensive repositories of information about the Calusa, yet it has received little […]

Ethan Michaeli will explore how The Chicago Defender, the nation’s most important African American newspaper for much of the twentieth century, covered the Holocaust. During the 1940s, the newspaper’s multi-racial roster of writers, including a young Jewish editor named Ben Burns, connected the struggle of African Americans for equal rights to Nazi persecution of Jews. […]

Dr. Sullivan is currently project coordinator for the Project for the Implementation o f an Undergraduate Humanities Curriculum in Digital Cultural Mapping at UCLA. She has excavated at the Greco-Roman […]

Abstract: It is well known that the distribution of wh-remnants in sluices, unlike the distribution of wh-phrases in non-elliptical questions, is largely immune to island effects, as illustrated by the contrast below. (1) Irv and someone were dancing together, but I don’t know who. (Ross 1969) (2) * Irv and someone were dancing together, but […]

The following one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program: 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 continually generates a pleasing random maze pattern. In this talk, I argue that this tiny program can […]