Events
Annie Gagliardi: "Grammar-parser tension in language acquisition: Evidence from Q'anjob'al relative clauses"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBuilt into the grammatical architecture of any language we find constraints on possible structures. The processing system that uses these structures appears to have inherent preferences in how we interpret them. By looking at a domain where there exists tension between what constraint a learner might expect their language to conform to and the interpretations […]
Martin Devecka: "Some Ends of the City: Ruins and Utopia in the Ancient World"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Mediterranean Studies: Ancient Comparative Why do ruins happen? Are they caused by natural catastrophes, invasions, economic collapse, state failure, or by something else? This talk will address these questions from a new perspective, integrating sociological comparison […]
Living Writers Series: Beth Lisick
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! Writer/Performer Beth Lisick is the author of five books: the memoir collection Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames, the New York Times bestselling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool, the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself, the story collection This […]
Research Proposal Writing Workshop for Faculty and PIs
Humanities 1, Room 202Goal: Guide Humanities faculty on the processes and resources available when submitting a Humanities research proposal and post-award considerations Presenters: Irena Polić, Cayla McEwen, Anne Callahan, Lisa Oman To sign up for this session, please RSVP to: annem@ucsc.edu
Rebecca Karl: "Economics, Culture, and Historical Time: A 1930s Chinese Critique"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRebecca Karl’s current work includes a forthcoming book entitled The Magic of Concepts: Philosophy and the Economic in Twentieth Century China; this book examines the intersections between philosophical and economic questions as they emerge and re-emerge over the course of China's twentieth century. Ongoing work includes a project on histories of economic concepts in China […]
Misfit Horror Film Series: Who Can Kill a Child?
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. January 19th - Who Can Kill a Child? One of the most disturbing horror films from a decade that was conspicuously filled with them, Who Can Kill a Child? takes […]
Marcela Depiante: "Preposition Stranding in Heritage Speakers of Spanish: Implications for the Interface Hypothesis"
Humanities 1, Room 202Abstract: In this talk, we discuss the properties of Heritage Languages by examining Preposition Stranding in the Spanish of Heritage speakers versus monolingual speakers of Spanish. We discuss the implications of this work for the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2000, Tsimpli and Sorace 2006) as applied to Heritage speakers (Montrul 2009, Montrul & Polinsky 2011) according […]
Lisa Pearl: "More learnable than thou? Testing knowledge representations with realistic acquisition data"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: One (often implicit) motivation for a linguistic knowledge representation (e.g., a set of linguistic parameters or constraints) comes from an argument from acquisition, where language acquisition is assumed to be straightforward if children’s hypothesis space is defined by the correct knowledge representation. Acquisition then becomes the process of selecting the correct language-specific grammar from […]
Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWarren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of Literature, English Department, Occidental College. He has published widely on French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s, especially Louis Althusser, as well as on literature and philosophy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Swift, and Adam Smith. His most recent book […]
Warren Montag: "Althusser's Lenin"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWarren Montag’s research has two foci: French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s, especially Althusser; and Literature and Philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. His recent book concerns the emergence of a necro-economics from French economic thinkers to Adam Smith (and beyond, from Malthus to Von Mises). Warren Montag is Brown Family Professor […]