Abstract: It is well known that the distribution of wh-remnants in sluices, unlike the distribution of wh-phrases in non-elliptical questions, is largely immune to island effects, as illustrated by the […]

Dr. Sullivan is currently project coordinator for the Project for the Implementation o f an Undergraduate Humanities Curriculum in Digital Cultural Mapping at UCLA. She has excavated at the Greco-Roman […]

Ethan Michaeli will explore how The Chicago Defender, the nation’s most important African American newspaper for much of the twentieth century, covered the Holocaust. During the 1940s, the newspaper’s multi-racial […]

This talk discusses the narrative of Hernando Fontaneda de Escalante, a 16th century former captive and a Creole man born in Cartagena de Indias, who lived for seventeen years among […]

The Asian Diasporas Research Cluster at the Institute of Humanities Research is pleased to present the following film screening: IN THE MATTER OF CHA JUNG HEE (2010) preceded by a […]

A Conversation with Michael Scherer - White House Correspondent for TIME Magazine and UCSC Literature/Creative Writing Alum. Questions? Contact: Micah Perks meperks@ucsc.edu Flyer is available here.

Presented by the Linguistics Research Center, UCSC. For more information, please contact Debbie Belville at irc@ling.ucsc.edu.

Earll Kingston, a fourth generation Californian, has performed with many Bay Area Theatres including the Berkeley Rep, The Magic Theatre, The Aurora Theatre, and Anima Mundi. While living in Hawaii he acted in various episodes of "Hawaii 5-0" and "Magnum P.I.". From 1990 to 1997 Kingston performed "Down The Great Unknown" at the Grand Canyon […]

This talk explores luxury as one way that hierarchy, social distance, and subordination are felt affectively by bodies in consumption-oriented societies. The project seeks to upend a tradition of social thought that interprets luxury consumption as an other-directed, visually-mediated, and easily-subverted “language” of hierarchy and class. Professor Mathiowetz is a political theorist and the author […]

Please see full posterfor speaker list and complete announcement! The academy has been under considerable pressure recently, both fiscally and fueled by new pressures on knowledge formation, and on pedagogical, and organizational form. The university as such has come into question, both within and without. This understandably has prompted both anxiety and critical responses among […]