Events
Margaret Frantz Memorial
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA memorial for Marge Frantz (1922-2015) a Hist Con graduate (1984) and longtime colleague at UC Santa Cruz in Women's Studies and American Studies will be held on Sunday, January 17th from 2-5pm. Refreshments & reception following the program. Ample and free parking is available. Enter UCSC at the WEST entrance. Three stop signs and […]
Sharon Inkelas: “The A-map model: Articulatory reliability in child-specific phonology”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk, based on joint work with Tara McAllister Byun and Yvan Rose, addresses a phenomenon of longstanding interest: the existence of child-specific phonological patterns which are not attested in adult language. We propose a new theoretical approach, termed the A(rticulatory)-Map model, to account for the origin and elimination of child-specific phonological patterns. Due to […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: James Beneda
Humanities 1, Room 202James Beneda "The Morally Incoherent Indoctrination of the American Soldier in Iraq: An Institutional Theory of Traumatic Experience" I take up an issue that most of us cannot help but see as a problem of individual psychology and restate it in terms of institutional politics and political ideologies. Starting from cognitive sociology and recent clinical research that reframes post-traumatic […]
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Living Writers: Alex Rivera
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAlex Rivera is a filmmaker who, for the past fifteen years, has been telling new, urgent, and visually adventurous Latino stories. His first feature film, Sleep Dealer, a science-fiction feature set on the U.S./Mexico border, won awards at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art, […]
FreeSocialism and Postsocialism Roundtable Discussion with Elena Gapova
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989, marking the ostensible end of the socialist project and the triumph of neoliberal economic policies around the globe. The result has been widespread de-industrialization, unemployment, ethnic conflict, poverty, and proliferating sex-traffic in the formerly socialist world, which now in many ways exemplifies trends toward stagnation and crisis that affect […]
FreeElena Gapova: "Suffering and the Soviet Man's Search for Meaning: The "Moral Revolutions" of Svetlana Alexievich"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Elena Gapova Svetlana Alexievich, the recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, is known for her unique literary method that blurs the genres of oral history and documentary prose. For each book, she conducts, over the period of five to ten years, between 500 and 700 interviews […]
FreePhD+: Research Tools and Methods
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRefine your research skills, learn about new available research tools, and get to know the library staff that can help you in your research pursuits. This panel, including presentations by Annette Marines, Lucia Orlando, and Rachel Deblinger will offer introductions to: Locating primary and secondary materials through library-based subscription databases Analyzing data using web-based tools […]
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Enduring Power – Photography Exhibit – Nov. 2 – Dec. 17
Resource Center for Non ViolenceEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story — A Photography Exhibit — November 2 – December 17, 2015 AT: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA Exhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment, 831-423-1626 Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural, Enduring Power’s striking images […]
FreeEnduring Power – Photography Exhibit – Nov. 2 – Dec. 17
Resource Center for Non ViolenceEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story — A Photography Exhibit — November 2 – December 17, 2015 AT: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA Exhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment, 831-423-1626 Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural, Enduring Power’s striking images […]
FreeFriday Forum: Lara Galas “Languaging the Landscape: A Translational Analysis of the Geopolitical in Nineteenth Century American Literature”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. This meeting will feature Lara […]
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