Events

Pranav Anand "There is a growing impetus to examine pragmatic phenomena experimentally. Potentially complicating these investigations is the way in which the experimental environment itself shapes participants’ models of extra‐linguistic context. A spate of recent results collectively suggest that the computation of scalar implicature may be sensitive to a host of factors: task structure, social […]

The Living Writers Reading Series presents Jaimy Gordon. Jaimy Gordon's "fantasy" novel, Shamp of the City-Solo, gathered an underground following, and is regarded as one of the finest comic novels in the last fifty years. Her most recent book, Lord of Misrule, won the National Book Award for fiction. Jaimy Gordon is Professor of English […]

Until 1917, most Jews of the Russian Empire were restricted to a region called the Pale of Settlement, where they created their own distinctive folk culture. In 1914 the writer, socialist revolutionary, and ethnographer, Sh. An-sky, produced a massive Yiddish ethnographic questionnaire to

Dr. Karan Singh Distinguished Indian statesman and diplomat Dr. Karan Singh will deliver the 2011 Satyajit Ray Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday, September 24, at 5:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall. Currently the president of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in New Delhi, Singh is the last Maharaja of Kashmir, and […]

Please join us on June 4th in Humanities I, room 210 as we take the opportunity presented by the current state of crisis to evaluate and re-imagine interdisciplinary work as both a project and an enterprise. Now that interdisciplinarity has itself become something of a philosopher’s stone, a general panacea for the woes and wiles […]

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series and the Center for Jewish Studies Present: Erik Butler, German Studies, Emory University "The Ruse of Faith: Spiritual Politics in Der Nister's Soviet Symbolism" Professor Butler has published Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film (Camden House, 2010) and The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European […]

Speakers: Snehal Shingavi, English and South Asian Studies, UT Austin Zahra Billoo, Council on American-Islamic Relations Wednesday, June 1 6 p.m. Kresge Town Hall Snehal Shingavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas, Austin. He got his PhD from UC Berkeley where he was involved in a number of […]

Recipients of this years Humanities Undergraduate Research Award (HUGRA) will be presenting their projects during Student Achievement week. All are welcome and encouraged to support these students!   In 1996, the Humanities Division began awarding undergraduate students to support and encourage innovative research projects.   This year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) symposium brings together a […]

University of California, Santa Cruz Presents: Music and Greek Drama: History, Theory, and Practice An International Conference   In connection with the UCSC Theater Arts production of Orestes Terrorist, a new version of Euripides’ Orestes by Mary-Kay Gamel, Mainstage Theater, UCSC, May 20-29   May 28-29, 2011 College 8, Room 240   Scholars and theater […]