CrISP is proud to present: Michael Wagner (McGill University): "The Locality of Allomorph Selection and Product Planning" English -ing varies between two phonologically distinct allomorphs, and . Across different varieties of English this variation has been shown to depend on gender, speaking style, and socio-economic factors (Fischer, 1958; Labov, 1972; Trudgill, 1972). Phonological context has also […]

Michel Foucault's late writings on ethics have been subjected to severe scrutiny by a host of critics. I suggest that these criticisms have for the most part been misguided because of a meta-ethical error too often relied upon in interpretations of Foucault.  I offer a distinction between ethical 'orientations' and ethical 'commitments'.  Rather than offering substantive normative content, I argue, Foucault's […]

In 1946-47, Bedouins found the first Dead Sea Scrolls in a cave near the site of Qumran, by the shore of the Dead Sea.  Eventually remains of over 900 scrolls were discovered in 11 caves surrounding Qumran.  The scrolls, which date to about the time of Jesus, were deposited in the caves by members of […]

Professor Sahota will join the Literature department as an Assistant Professor in 2011. He is finishing Late Colonial Sublime (UC, 2012). His research addresses conflicts of dogmatic and speculative belief cultures in contemporary global society with a special focus on the postcolonial. He has begun a long-term project on the question of reason in the […]

This conference brings theories of economic value and regulation into conversation with the study of culture, institutions, ethics, history, geography and theology. Its aim is to consider in what ways capitalism is producing a future that is unlike its past.

Chang-Rae Lee's first two novels, Native Speaker and A Gesture Life, have between them won a host of literary honors, including the Hemingway/PEN Award for first fiction, QPB’s New Voices […]

Russian has a well-known rule called yer deletion: stem mid vowels are deleted when a vowel-initial suffix follows (as in `ditch (nom sg)' vs. (gen sg)). The rule is lexically […]

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Cristina Lombardi-Diop, Italian Studies, UC Berkeley "Spotless Italy: Advertising Culture and the Post-racial Imagination" Professor Lombardi-Diop has published on gender and Italian […]

Kresge Writer’s House, Living Writers, & Feminist Studies presents: Florence Howe, founder of The Feminist Press and author of the memoir, A Life in Motion

One of the great unresolved controversies of the Cold War is whether American physicist Robert Oppenheimer--the "father of the atomic bomb"--was, in fact, a communist and a spy for the […]