Events
Nishat Khan Sitar Performance
Music Center Recital Hall - UCSC 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA performance of Indian Classical Music with Nishat Khan (sitar) and Nitin Mitta (tabla) Ustad Nishat Khan is one of India’s finest musicians and a virtuoso sitar player, transcending musical barriers with his provocative expression and spellbinding technical mastery. Nishat stands at the threshold of the future of sitar and Indian music with his uniquely invigorating […]
The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture – Lisa Lowe: Histories of the Colonial Present
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture, featuring Lisa Lowe. Guests who attend in person are invited to join us for a reception with light refreshments and beverages at 5:30 p.m. Settler colonialism, slavery, migration, and imperial war […]
Thenmozhi Soundarajan – The Trauma of Caste and the US Equity Movement: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
Virtual and In PersonThenmozhi Soundarajan is a Dalit American commentator on religion, race, caste, gender, technology, and justice. She is the Executive Director of Equality Labs and the author of The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition. This event is presented by the Center for South Asian Studies as a part of […]
THI Coffee Hour
Humanities 1, Room 515 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students, faculty, staff, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays, 11am to noon. We invite you to visit our team, meet our new Faculty Director, Pranav Anand, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Anthony Yacovone
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: Anthony Yacovone Tufts University / Massachusetts General Hospital speaking on Prediction is a piece of ceke: Developmental and psycholinguistic evidence for prediction of word-forms during natural language comprehension. Abstract For decades, psycholinguists have fiercely debated the role and centrality of prediction in human language. These debates center […]
Wei Wang – “The Effect of Instruction on L2 Learners’ Interactional Competence: Listener Responses in Chinese as a Second Language”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: “The Effect of Instruction on L2 Learners’ Interactional Competence: Listener Responses in Chinese as a Second Language” with Wei Wang, Ph.D. University of Houston Abstract This study investigates whether classroom instruction is effective in promoting L2 Chinese learners’ interactional competence (IC) as indexed by […]
Davide Panagia: Political Theory, Democracy, and the Challenges of Algorithmic Governance
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk I will raise some challenges that political theorists face when reflecting on the political import of algorithmic governance. I do not develop normative or epistemic insights into these challenges, and in fact suggest that such an approach is problematic. Rather, I proceed by articulating some aspects of the political ontology of algorithms […]
Cancelled – Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Eight – Hierarchy and Diversity (Paradiso 3; 27–29 & 32)
Virtual EventDante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary, theological, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire […]
Ying Yang – “Grammar, Interaction, and Social Context: The Evolution Story of 那na ‘that’”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: “Grammar, Interaction, and Social Context: The Evolution Story of 那na ‘that’” with Ying Yang, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison Abstract Face-to-face conversation is the primordial form of human interaction and language is inherently a form of social behavior. However, spontaneous natural conversation remains […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Andrea Beltrama
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: Andrea Beltrama University of Pennsylvania speaking on The interface between pragmatic reasoning and social perception: Towards an integrative view of inferences in communication Abstract Comprehenders systematically draw two varieties of inferences in linguistic communication: pragmatic inferences, concerning the message conveyed by an utterance; and sociolinguistic inferences, concerning […]