Events
Megan C. Thomas: “Secrecy’s Use: Education, Enlightenment, and Propaganda”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUsing Mikhail Bakunin’s theorization of authority as a starting point, this talk explores secrecy as a strategy for political enlightenment, and calls attention to earlier conceptions of “propaganda” as education that were lost with the […]
Terje Lohndal: “Domains of Agreement”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCurrent wisdom has it that syntactic agreement between one head and multiple dependents (Multiple Agree) is possible and perhaps empirically required. In this talk, I will consider data from West […]
Peter Blickle: “New Developments in the Discourse of Heimat”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesToday, just as during any other period since the end of the eighteenth century, the idea of Heimat (home, homeland) is a central part of German-speaking people’s attempts to make […]
Rhacel Parreñas: “Women’s Migration as Indentured Mobility: How Gendered Protectionist Laws Leave Filipina Hostesses Dependent on Migrant Brokers and Susceptible to Forced Sexual Labor”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesParreñas' talk describes the migration process of Filipina hostesses to Japan. She explains why they are dependent on middleman brokers and how this dependency leaves them susceptible to forced sexual […]
Living Writers Series: Emily Carr, Maureen Foster, Lindsay Knisely, and Ingrid Moody
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEmily Carr’s first book, directions for flying (Furniture Press,) is available through SPD. 13 ways of happily: books 1 & 2, chosen by Cole Swensen as the winner of the […]
“Messing with Haraway”: A Celebration in Honor of Professor Donna Haraway
College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDonna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz, has shaped an entire generation of scholars and scholarship. Her wit, brilliance, generosity, dedication to her […]
Eric Porter: Book Reading and Signing
Baytree Bookstore, UCSC Bay Tree Bookstore 1156 High street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEric Porter, Professor and Chair of American Studies, will be reading from his new book The Problem of the Future World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury. The […]
Marcelo Dimentstein & Alejandro Dujovne: “A fragmented tradition: Jewish studies in Argentina”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCompared with other Jewish Communities in the diaspora, the Argentine Jewish community presents a remarkable paradox: Although it is the largest, most plural and probably the most highly institutionalized Jewish […]
Pranav Anand: “Detecting Persuasion and Argument Cross-Culturally”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk reports on work that detects the kind of rhetorical structures a person uses when attempting to persuade an audience to believe or act in a certain manner. Professor […]
Keir Moulton: “CPs Don’t Saturate – Deriving the Distribution of Clausal Complements”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA classic puzzle about CPs is that they distribute differently than nominal arguments. This fact is reflected, among other things, by the order of complements in English (Stowell 1981) and […]