Events
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 […]
Paul Bowles Centennial Festival
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBowles at 100: A Celebration of Multi-Artistry UCSC's Paul Bowles Centennial Festival presents an international group of scholars, writers, filmmakers, and performers to celebrate the multi-faceted artistry of Paul Bowles. […]
Paul Lubeck: “The Challenge of Global Islam for American Energy Security: Explaining the Enigma of Radical Islamism in Nigeria”
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCGIRS and College Nine Faculty Research Seminar Series The CGIRS and College Nine seminar series is an inter-disciplinary venue in which UCSC faculty can present their research to the community […]
Alon Tal: “War, Peace and the Environment in the Middle East”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe history of the Israeli- Arab wars has had environmental implications which are often overlooked. Some pessimists argue that the next war will in the Middle East will be fought […]
Dorian Bell: “A ‘Paradise of Parasites’: Hannah Arendt, Anti-Semitism, and the Imperial Imagination”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesProfessor Bell’s in-progress Frontiers of Hate: Anti-Semitism and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France explores articulations between anti-Semitism and imperialism that shaped the emergence of European racial thought. Arguing that colonial expansion helped French anti-Semitism adopt its […]
Matt Wagers: “Grammar on the Trailing Edge of the Conscious Present: What We Can Learn about Memory from Language Processing”
Language comprehension seems fast, effortless and error-free -- at least, to the extent that we can introspect about it. Underneath this apparently seamless part of our day-to-day experience lies a […]
Omer Preminger: “The Nature of Syntactic Computation: Evidence from Agreement”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, I argue for a particular logic by which agreement (in particular, agreement between a verb or tense/aspect/mood-marker and a noun-phrase) is related to grammaticality, and show how […]
John Jordan: “Voice and Temporality in the Illustrations to Bleak House”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDrawing on the narratological theories of Genette (“voice”) and Mieke Bal (“focalization”), Professor Jordan’s talk offers a new approach to understanding the illustrations to Dickens’s Bleak House (1852- 53) that […]
Enrico Deaglio: “Reporting Italy”
College 8, Room 240 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFull of mysteries, theatrical effects, unexpected violence and unexpected compromises, recent Italian history is probably difficult to understand, but surely is not boring. It was 32 years ago when Aldo Moro, […]