Events
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 […]
Warren Montag: "Althusser's Lenin"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWarren Montag’s research has two foci: French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s, especially Althusser; and Literature and Philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. His recent book […]
Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWarren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of Literature, English Department, Occidental College. He has published widely on French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s, especially Louis Althusser, […]
Lisa Pearl: "More learnable than thou? Testing knowledge representations with realistic acquisition data"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: One (often implicit) motivation for a linguistic knowledge representation (e.g., a set of linguistic parameters or constraints) comes from an argument from acquisition, where language acquisition is assumed to […]
Marcela Depiante: "Preposition Stranding in Heritage Speakers of Spanish: Implications for the Interface Hypothesis"
Humanities 1, Room 202Abstract: In this talk, we discuss the properties of Heritage Languages by examining Preposition Stranding in the Spanish of Heritage speakers versus monolingual speakers of Spanish. We discuss the implications […]
Misfit Horror Film Series: Who Can Kill a Child?
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. January 19th - Who […]
Rebecca Karl: "Economics, Culture, and Historical Time: A 1930s Chinese Critique"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRebecca Karl’s current work includes a forthcoming book entitled The Magic of Concepts: Philosophy and the Economic in Twentieth Century China; this book examines the intersections between philosophical and economic […]
Research Proposal Writing Workshop for Faculty and PIs
Humanities 1, Room 202Goal: Guide Humanities faculty on the processes and resources available when submitting a Humanities research proposal and post-award considerations Presenters: Irena Polić, Cayla McEwen, Anne Callahan, Lisa Oman To sign […]
Living Writers Series: Beth Lisick
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! Writer/Performer Beth Lisick is the author of five books: the memoir collection Yokohama Threeway and Other […]