Concepts, 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 with which we interact as laymen and scientists; adults and infants. How does abstraction take place? What is the abstract, and what is it used […]

Professor 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 in the novel, 19th century Venice, James’s biography, and some literary themes such as don juanism, thinking to reinstate curiosity as a legitimate part of […]

Karen 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 in the acquisition process. Two case studies are presented. The first, drawing on data from the English-acquiring child Trevor (Compton & Streeter 1977, Pater 1997) […]

John 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 disciplinary preoccupations more typically associated with the concerns of "journalism and mass communications" to the engagements, at once theoretical and political, of "cultural studies." What […]

Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012  Kimberly Jannarone  Theater Arts, Digital Arts and New Media, History of Consciousness, UCSC Memory and Mass Performance The recent retrospective of the work […]

R. Zamora Linmark Creative Writing and Literature present: UCSC Winter Living Writers Series R. Zamora Linmark Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives Ronaldo V. Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor Collaborators, Collectors & Collectives […]

The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in African-American Literature (Modernism to Contemporary): Chris Chen "An Axiomatic Chorus": Serial […]

The Sociology Colloquium Series presents: Mohammed Bamyeh Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh "Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring" Mohammed Bamyeh Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness, Politics, […]

LECTURE POSTPONED: The Anthropology Cultural Colloquium prevention of Nathaniel Deutsch,“The Jewish Dark Continent: Inventing Jewish Ethnography in the Russian Pale of Settlement” / has ben postponed from This Monday, January […]