Events
Living Writers Series: Carolyn Cooke
Kresge Town HallThresholds and Breaking Points The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests […]
Anna Szabolcsi: "What do quantifier particles do?"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: In Szabolcsi (2010: Ch 12.5) and subsequent work I embarked on a program to investigate the compositional semantics of quantifier words. Taking apart someone and everyone and specifying what […]
Billy Collins: "Aimless Love"
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome two-term U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins for a reading and signing of his new collection, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems. Local poet […]
Karla Mallette: "'A narcocracy of language': The Cosmopolitan Language Against Translation"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKarla Mallette is currently working on a monograph, tentatively titled Lives of the Great Languages, which is a theoretical study of the cosmopolitan language system: the trans-regional and trans-historical mega-languages […]
An Evening with Peter Kenez, Murray Baumgarten, and Lee Jaffe
Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson Stevenson College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a celebration of two recently published books: The Coming of the Holocaust: From Anti-Semitism to Genocide by Peter Kenez, and The Jewish Street: The City and […]
Bettina Aptheker: "The Meaning of Freedom of Speech: Surveillance, Incarceration & the Politics of the First Amendment"
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBettina Aptheker co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964. She will give a brief retrospective and then consider the different ways in which race, gender, class, and […]
Rachel Chrastil: "Inventing Humanitarianism: Gender and the Civilian Male in Besieged Strasbourg"
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn August 1870 the Prussians and their German allies laid siege to the French city of Strasbourg and bombed the city center, killing and wounding civilian men, women and children. […]
Philosophy Colloquium with Seth Yalcin: "Epistemic Modality De Re"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesI describe some new puzzles about the interaction of epistemic modality with quantification. I offer to dissolve the puzzles using a nonstandard kind of situation semantics. On the theory I […]
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading: Naomi Shihab Nye
Kresge Town HallThresholds and Breaking Points The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests […]
Translation and Mediterranean Culture Conference
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Mediterranean Seminar UCMRP Fall Workshop and Conference will be held in conjunction with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University […]