Events
Living Writers Reading Series: David Vann
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Living Writers Reading Series presents David Vann. David Vann writes both fiction and non-fiction and has won several awards, including the Grace Paley Prize 2007, California Book Award 2008, […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Laurence R. Horn,”On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLaurence R. Horn On the Contrary: Pragmatic Strengthening and Disjunctive Syllogism The dictum that “The essence of formal negation is to invest the contrary with the character of the […]
2nd Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading featuring Kay Ryan
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTHE 2nd ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS MEMOMRIAL POETRY READING honors poet, teacher and film critic Morton Marcus (1936-2009), one of Santa Cruz’s beloved cultural icons. This second annual event will feature Kay […]
Joshua White “Catch and Release: Piracy, Slavery, and Law in the Early Modern Ottoman Mediterranean”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. Beginning in the 1570s, incidents of piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean increased exponentially, as the conclusion of the war […]
Jennifer Derr, Talk title TBA
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. Jennifer Derr has her B.S. from Stanford University; M.A., Georgetown University; Ph.D., Stanford. Areas of academic interest include modern […]
Herman Gray, “At the Limit of Representation: Neoliberalism, Media and African American Visibility”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHerman Gray With African Americans as the primary example, Professor Gray probes the social, intellectual, and political investment in the cultural politics of recognition and visibility in the context of […]
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther: “Abstraction, the Abstract, and Abstractionism: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives”
Social Sciences 2, Room 121 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesConcepts, models, and theories; words, propositions, and language; are typically understood as abstract representations and abstract maps. The abstract allows us to navigate tentatively and successfully through the concrete world […]
Alide Cagidemetrio: “Choosing Venice: Seduction, Henry James, and The Wings of the Dove”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesProfessor Alide Cagidemetrio of the University of Venice will speak on “Choosing Venice: Seduction, Henry James, and The Wings of the Dove” Professor Cagidemetrio will offer some observations about details […]
Karen Jesny: “The Interaction of Markedness Factors in Child Consonant Cluster Acquisition”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKaren Jesny Consonant clusters introduce multiple sources of markedness that must be mastered in the course of phonological acquisition. This talk considers how segmental markedness, sonority, and cluster status interact […]
John Mowitt: “Radio Silence”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJohn Mowitt The emergent field of "radio studies" has given new impetus to the study of radio. Specifically, as the name suggests, "radio studies" has fused an older set of […]