Events
Silvia Perpiñan: "Microparametric variation among Romance languages: the L2 acquisition of Spanish locative and existential constructions by Catalan and Italian speakers"
Humanities 1, Room 202Abstract: Selection of copula verbs in Spanish is a classic challenging area for L2 learners. Even so, it has received moderate attention on SLA research, and most of the studies […]
Mayanthi Fernando: "Improper Intimacies, or the Cunning of Secularism"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMayanthi Fernando works on religion, politics, and the secular. Her first book on the Islamic revival and French secularity will be out in 2014. Her new project examines the nexus […]
North French Hebrew Miscellany
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsCome to Special Collections to look at and learn about a spectacular book recently acquired by Special Collections. UCSC Special Collections has recently acquired a facsimile of one of the […]
Living Writers Series: Rachel Swirsky and Sina Grace
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWinter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! Fantasy Writer Rachel Swirsky has published over fifty short stories in venues including The New Haven Review, Tor.com […]
An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project
Nickelodeon Theater 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Nickelodeon Theatre will host "An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project" on Thursday January 30 in conjunction with the screening of "The Invisible Woman" film, showing at 6:50 pm. […]
Politics of the Digital: Poetry, Technology, and the University
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis two-day event includes a poetry reading and an interdisciplinary symposium featuring graduate students, faculty, and a keynote from Johanna Drucker. Friday, January 31, 2014: Poetry reading at 6 p.m. […]
Kathryn Pruitt: "Culminativity in Harmonic Serialism"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: This talk considers the typology of word-headedness in languages with iterative stress and discusses a traditional classification of such systems—top-down vs. bottom-up (Hayes 1995)—in the context of Harmonic Serialism […]
CANCELLED: Misfit Horror Film Series: Arrebato
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. February 2nd - Arrebato (1980, dir. […]
Kristin Ross: "Notes on the 'Cellular Regime of Nationality': Internationalism & The Paris Commune"
Humanities 1, Room 620 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe talk is taken from Communal Luxury (forthcoming from Editions La fabrique). Ross discusses the political imaginary that fueled and outlived the Paris Commune of 1871, here considered within frames […]
Steven J. Zipperstein: "How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents: Steven J. Zipperstein: "How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History" Kishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance when […]