Two theoretical problems have stood at the core of psycholinguistic research in syntactic comprehension: (1) the resolution of local ambiguity; and (2) syntactic complexity, or the difficulty incurred in processing locally unambiguous structures. This talk describes a unified treatment of these two problems through the theory of surprisal, which proposes that comprehenders rationally deploy probabilistic […]

New Orleans Suite presents a window into the landscape of life in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. Vivid black and white photography exposes the contrast of devastation and humanity in such a rich sector of American jazz culture. Additionally the gallery will showcase some of Watts' new work from Cuba, where he is […]

Satyajit Ray is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. The Ray Film and Study Center (RayFASC) is newly located at Crown College and holds the largest collections of Ray's films outside of India. Please join us for a showing of Pather Panchali ("Song of the Road"), with an introduction by […]

Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle, film & photo essay, poem, story, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history […]

Come learn how to navigate the Community of Science database to best aid your research funding explorations. This database is the best way to search and track funding opportunities that fit your exact research areas and funding needs. 1) It is easy to use. All you need is a ucsc email account to log in. […]

Aventurera (1950; dir. Alberto Gout) Mexico Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

Jenny Reardon is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Post-Genomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, Knowledge after the Genome. This book traces the efforts to transform genomics from a fields that in the 1990s sparked fears of racism and dehumanization to one that todays claims the banners of democracy and justice. Jenny Reardon is Associate Professor […]

Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle, film & photo essay, poem, story, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history […]

Nobody's Children (1950; dir. Raffaello Matarazzo) Italy Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

James Clifford taught in UCSC's History of Consciousness Department for 33 years and was the founding director of the Center for Cultural Studies. Clifford is currently completing Returns, a book about indigenous cultural politics that will be the third in a trilogy. The first volume, The Predicament of Culture (1988) juxtaposed essays on 20th-century ethnography, […]