Events
“Messing with Haraway”: A Celebration in Honor of Professor Donna Haraway
College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDonna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz, has shaped an entire generation of scholars and scholarship. Her wit, brilliance, generosity, dedication to her […]
Eric Porter: Book Reading and Signing
Baytree Bookstore, UCSC Bay Tree Bookstore 1156 High street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEric Porter, Professor and Chair of American Studies, will be reading from his new book The Problem of the Future World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury. The […]
Marcelo Dimentstein & Alejandro Dujovne: “A fragmented tradition: Jewish studies in Argentina”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCompared with other Jewish Communities in the diaspora, the Argentine Jewish community presents a remarkable paradox: Although it is the largest, most plural and probably the most highly institutionalized Jewish […]
Pranav Anand: “Detecting Persuasion and Argument Cross-Culturally”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk reports on work that detects the kind of rhetorical structures a person uses when attempting to persuade an audience to believe or act in a certain manner. Professor […]
Keir Moulton: “CPs Don’t Saturate – Deriving the Distribution of Clausal Complements”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA classic puzzle about CPs is that they distribute differently than nominal arguments. This fact is reflected, among other things, by the order of complements in English (Stowell 1981) and […]
Paul Bowles Centennial Festival
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBowles at 100: A Celebration of Multi-Artistry UCSC's Paul Bowles Centennial Festival presents an international group of scholars, writers, filmmakers, and performers to celebrate the multi-faceted artistry of Paul Bowles. […]
Paul Lubeck: “The Challenge of Global Islam for American Energy Security: Explaining the Enigma of Radical Islamism in Nigeria”
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCGIRS and College Nine Faculty Research Seminar Series The CGIRS and College Nine seminar series is an inter-disciplinary venue in which UCSC faculty can present their research to the community […]
Alon Tal: “War, Peace and the Environment in the Middle East”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe history of the Israeli- Arab wars has had environmental implications which are often overlooked. Some pessimists argue that the next war will in the Middle East will be fought […]
Dorian Bell: “A ‘Paradise of Parasites’: Hannah Arendt, Anti-Semitism, and the Imperial Imagination”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesProfessor Bell’s in-progress Frontiers of Hate: Anti-Semitism and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France explores articulations between anti-Semitism and imperialism that shaped the emergence of European racial thought. Arguing that colonial expansion helped French anti-Semitism adopt its […]
Matt Wagers: “Grammar on the Trailing Edge of the Conscious Present: What We Can Learn about Memory from Language Processing”
Language comprehension seems fast, effortless and error-free -- at least, to the extent that we can introspect about it. Underneath this apparently seamless part of our day-to-day experience lies a […]