Events
Center for Public Philosophy: High School Regional Ethics Bowl
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTeams of up to five high school students have the fall semester to develop their thinking on 15 real-world ethical questions (“cases”) put out in early September by the National High School Ethics Bowl organization. In the Winter, each team participates at a regional tournament (“bowl”). The team that is deemed to have displayed the […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Naomi Francis
Humanities 2, Room 259More details available here.
Cancelled: Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis week's Center Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium has been cancelled. See you next week! The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to […]
Questions That Matter on KZSC
CA, United StatesTune in to KZSC to hear the upcoming Transformation Highway featuring Pranav Anand (Associate Professor of Linguistics), Lise Getoor (Professor of Computer Science and Engineering), and Nathaniel Deutsch (Director of the Humanities Institute) who will be discussing the upcoming event Questions That Matter: Data and Democracy
Ralina Joseph: “Postracial Resistance-Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Post Racial Resistance-Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity" speaks about how African American women, celebrities. cultural products, and audiences subversively used the tools of postracial discourse-- the media- propagated notion that race and race based discrimination are over-- in order to resist its very tenets. Ralina Joseph is a Associate Professor at […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Jess Law
Humanities 2, Room 259Jess Law, Constraints on distributivity Abstract
Living Writers: Sina Grace
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC alum Sina Grace is the author and illustrator of the autobiographical Self-Obsessed and Not My Bag and the writer of Marvel’s Iceman comic series, featuring the first out gay […]
Massimiliano Tomba: “Insurgent Universality – An Alternative Legacy of Modernity”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAn Alternative Legacy of Modernity” Insurgent Universality offers a new way of thinking political universality that radically differs from the legal universalism of human rights and cosmopolitanism. Assuming a conception […]
Nadine Theiler: “A Unified Semantics for Additive Particles”
Humanities 2, Room 259English has several additive particles, which differ in their distribution. One of these is also, a common choice to signal additivity in assertions and polar questions, (1a-b). It has been […]
PhD+ Graduate Student Workshop Series – Understanding the ACLS Public Fellows Program: Reflections from UCSC Alumni
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLearn more about the ACLS Public Fellows program in conversation with two UCSC Grad Alums who have launched careers through the ACLS Public Fellows program. Sophia Booth Magnone, Literature […]