Events
Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Natalie Handal
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNatalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, and editor. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. Her poetry collections include: The Neverfield, The Lives of Rain, shortlisted for The Agnes Lynch Starret Poetry Prize and the recipient of the Menada Literary Award, and Love and Strange […]
Trevor Joy Sangrey: “’Put One More “S” in the USA’: Pamphlet Literature and the Productive Fiction of the Black Nation Thesis”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn 1928 the Communist Party developed an unconventional and intriguing proposal that black people in the Black Belt of the Southern United States were an unrecognized national group and should have rights to self-determination, a move later called the “Black Nation Thesis.” Written in Moscow, the Black Nation Thesis was forged in the US through […]
Mussolini’s Secret
Classroom Unit 2 Classroom Unit University of California Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Language Program, Italian Studies Program, Cowell Provost and History Department Present: A 2005 documentary folk by Gianfranco Norelli and Fabrizio Laurenti followed by a conversation with director Norelli. Reception at Cowell Provost's House 7:00PM. Running tim 55 minutes in English Mussolini's Secret tells the unknown story of Benito Albino, Mussolini's secret son, and his […]
Jon Varese: “Digital Dickens”.
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsThe Dickens Project would like to welcome everyone to visit the exhibit of its 32-year history, mounted in four display cases just outside Special Collections on the 3rd floor of McHenry Library. The exhibit makes note of both the scholarly and the outreach missions of the Project, and will be up for the duration of […]
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 […]