A Conversation with Michael Scherer - White House Correspondent for TIME Magazine and UCSC Literature/Creative Writing Alum. Questions? Contact: Micah Perks meperks@ucsc.edu Flyer is available here.

The Asian Diasporas Research Cluster at the Institute of Humanities Research is pleased to present the following film screening: IN THE MATTER OF CHA JUNG HEE (2010) preceded by a […]

This talk discusses the narrative of Hernando Fontaneda de Escalante, a 16th century former captive and a Creole man born in Cartagena de Indias, who lived for seventeen years among the Calusa Indians of Florida. His account is considered one of the most extensive repositories of information about the Calusa, yet it has received little […]

Ethan Michaeli will explore how The Chicago Defender, the nation’s most important African American newspaper for much of the twentieth century, covered the Holocaust. During the 1940s, the newspaper’s multi-racial […]

Dr. Sullivan is currently project coordinator for the Project for the Implementation o f an Undergraduate Humanities Curriculum in Digital Cultural Mapping at UCLA. She has excavated at the Greco-Roman site of Karanis in the Egyptian Fayoum for the past two seasons as part of the UCLA project at the site. Poster availablehere. For more […]

Abstract: It is well known that the distribution of wh-remnants in sluices, unlike the distribution of wh-phrases in non-elliptical questions, is largely immune to island effects, as illustrated by the […]

The following one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program: 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 continually generates a pleasing random maze pattern. In this talk, I argue that this tiny program can […]

In the late nineteenth century, a socialist workers' movement burst onto the scene in New York City's immigrant Jewish "ghetto." Over subsequent decades and in cities around the country, hundreds […]

Curveship is an interactive fiction (IF) development system that adds support for interactive narrating -- automatic narrative variation that is accomplished through text generation. For 30 years, IF development systems […]

Professor Cooppan’s in-progress Race, Writing, and the Literary World System combines the economic analysis of world systems theory, world literature models of global literary movement, traditional theory and history of […]