Events
Events
Living Writers Series: Douglas Kearney
Kresge Town HallThresholds and Breaking Points The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, […]
Language Program Colloquium with Midori Ishida
Humanities 1, Room 408This paper explores the issue of roles of social interaction for developing pragmatic competence in a second language. As an example, it examines interactions between a learner of Japanese and native speakers, focusing on ‘receipts’, or a kind of listener responses (e.g. soo desu ne ). A learner’s conversations recorded during one-year study abroad in […]
Contemporary Capitalism and Marxist Critique
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTo inaugurate a year of events, the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism research cluster is holding a panel which follows two interrelated threads. The first is the analysis of capitalism as a system, from its origins to its contemporary transformations. This analysis extends across disciplines and theoretical orientations, and one goal of this interdisciplinary […]
Chair Lisbeth Haas – Saints & Citizens: Book Reading & Discussion
Humanities 1, Room 320Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of […]
Julia Phillips Cohen: "Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and […]
Living Writers Series: Reyna Grande
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! Novelist/Memoirist Reyna Grande is the author of the novels Across a Hundred Mountains andDancing with Butterflies, for which she received […]
Berenice Darwich: "Continuity and discontinuity in syntactic patterns in New York City. A look at co-referential complex sentences"
Humanities 1, Room 202Speaker: Berenice Darwich, Hispanic Linguistics, CUNY Colleges; New York, New York. Abstract: The variable phenomenon of subject expression, specifically in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences, is analyzed in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]