Events
Loren Goldman: “Vaclav Havel and the Politics and Practice of Hope”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Loren Goldman Assistant Professor, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Townsend Fellow at UCB Professor Goldman is a political theorist whose work concerns the intersection of utopian thought and political agency. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the concept of political hope in the modern period from Kant to Dewey. Co-sponsored by […]
Are You My Data? A Research Ethics Forum
University Center, UCSC College Nine and College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Office of Research is sponsoring a series of Research Ethics Fora for faculty, postdocs and graduate students. The first forum in the Series "Are You My Data?" is on Tuesday May 8th in the Alumni Room of the University Center and is hosted by Prof. Jennifer Reardon of the Science & Justice Working Group. […]
Patricia Lunn: “In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar”
Humanities 1, Room 320LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES PRESENTS: "In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar" Patricia Lunn Professor Emeritus of Spanish Michigan State University Discussions about teaching grammar in the foreign language classroom are usually cast in terms of when (in order of acquisition) and how much (as against other activities). A little-discussed aspect of grammar teaching is what […]
“Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing” Conference
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis conference is organized around experimental writing and its many, varying communities including performance art collaborations, small press publishing and editorial projects, virtual and digital work, academic affiliations, and intersecting aesthetic, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as […]
Matthew Tucker, “Variable Agreement: The Morphosyntax of Syntactic Binding”
Matthew Tucker This talk discusses the interplay between syntax (the order of words and structure in sentences) and morphology (the structure of words) in natural language and the role it can play in linguistic theorizing. While traditional approaches often look at purely syntactic or purely morphological explanations, data from three unrelated syntactic phenomena can be […]
“Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing” Conference
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis conference is organized around experimental writing and its many, varying communities including performance art collaborations, small press publishing and editorial projects, virtual and digital work, academic affiliations, and intersecting aesthetic, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as […]
Celebrating Humanities Spring Awards
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, awards, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. Highlights include the presentation of the John Dizikes Teaching Awards in Humanities, which honors the teaching efforts of faculty. Event Photos: The categories for acknowledgement this […]
HUGRA Award Presentations
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations will be held in conjunction with the Celebrating Humanities event. Following is the schedule: 1:00 - 3:00 pm: HUGRA Awards 3:00 - 4:00 pm: Refreshments 4:00 - 6:00 pm: Spring Awards
Dizikes Award and “Celebrating the Humanities” 2012
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAlan Christy, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies Director, is the 2012 recipient of the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities. Both students and colleagues alike offered high praise regarding Alan's teaching skills and the positive impact he has had on students over the years. John Dizikes will be on hand to present […]
A Dickens Day Celebration
Mechanic's Institute 57 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesA Celebration in Honor of Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday Anniversary Year Co-sponsored by The Dickens Project, University of California, Santa Cruz An Important Notice of (perhaps) the one and only all-day Dickens Day Celebration in San Francisco, hence, one that should not be missed on all account. Thus, a brief description of what will occur […]
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