Events
Inaugural Talk: "Lit Up"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat first turned your professors into readers? What do they read for pleasure, and why? Come find out at "LIT UP," a new series of informal talks by UCSC Literature […]
CANCELLED: Gopal Balakrishnan: "The Historical World of Karl Marx"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFollowing on his earlier work on Adam Smith and David Ricardo, Gopal Balakrishnan’s current work on Marx seeks to demonstrate the logical unity of Marx’s mature economic thought, while recognizing […]
CANCELLED: Sarah Rebolloso McCullough: "Groovin' and Movin': Mountain Biking, Counterculture, and the Grateful Dead"
California RoomWhat does mountain biking have to do with the Grateful Dead? This talk will discuss the intricate role the counterculture played upon the innovation of mountain biking, begun in the […]
Living Writers Series: Douglas Kearney
Kresge Town HallThresholds and Breaking Points The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests […]
Language Program Colloquium with Midori Ishida
Humanities 1, Room 408This paper explores the issue of roles of social interaction for developing pragmatic competence in a second language. As an example, it examines interactions between a learner of Japanese and […]
Contemporary Capitalism and Marxist Critique
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTo inaugurate a year of events, the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism research cluster is holding a panel which follows two interrelated threads. The first is the analysis of […]
Chair Lisbeth Haas – Saints & Citizens: Book Reading & Discussion
Humanities 1, Room 320Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of […]
Julia Phillips Cohen: "Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and […]
Living Writers Series: Reyna Grande
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWinter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter's series are UCSC alumni! Novelist/Memoirist Reyna Grande is the author of the novels Across a Hundred Mountains andDancing with Butterflies, for which she received […]
Berenice Darwich: "Continuity and discontinuity in syntactic patterns in New York City. A look at co-referential complex sentences"
Humanities 1, Room 202Speaker: Berenice Darwich, Hispanic Linguistics, CUNY Colleges; New York, New York. Abstract: The variable phenomenon of subject expression, specifically in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences, is analyzed in […]