Events
2013 California Regional High School Ethics Bowl Competition
Multiple Venues College 9 & College 10, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAn Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event, more nuanced than debate, in which teams are presented with a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas and are asked to analyze […]
Mediterranean Studies MRP Workshop – UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project (MRP) in Mediterranean Studies announces its Winter 2013 Workshop, to be held at UCLA on Saturday, 2 February 2013. This is part […]
Lyn Hejinian: “The Avant-Garde in Progress”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLynn Hejinian is currently at work on a book-length essay, tentatively titled The Positions of the Sun, and exploring practical as well as conceptual possibilities for avant-garde and quotidian practices […]
Creative Writing Reading by Josie Sigler Sibara
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStay tuned for more information.
Poetry Reading with Lyn Hejinian, Keegan Finberg and Michael Dhyne
Felix Kulpa Gallery 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, United StatesLyn Hejinian Lyn Hejinian is professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is a poet and critic. She works on modernist and postmodern literature, American postwar experimental literature, Gertrude Stein, […]
Living Writers Reading by Josie Sigler Sibara
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease stay tuned for more information.
Maziar Toosarvandani: "Gapping is VP Ellipsis "
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhere does the gap in gapping -- e.g. Some had ordered mussels, and others swordfish -- come from? The traditional answer is deletion (Ross 1970, Hankamer 1979, among others). Johnson […]
Jonathan Kaplan: "Turning social categories into biological realities: 'Race' made biological"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBiological facts can neither determine nor justify the racial categories identified in our ordinary social discourse. Claims to the contrary confuse our ability to find biological correlates to populations with […]
Michael Thaler: “Role of Bio-Science and Medicine in Nazi Radical Policies and the Holocaust”
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesReception to follow lecture. Michael Thaler is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Medicine, UC San Francisco, and a Lecturer in History, UC Santa Cruz.
Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable XV
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA CRUZ: MARCH 22-24, 2013 Session V (9 a.m.-Noon) Chair: Paul Roth, UCSC Analytical sociology and rhetoric: Large scale social phenomena arguably triggered by innocuous rhetorical devices Alban […]