Events
Living Writers: Claudia Rankine: University of Southern California
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesClaudia Rankine University of Southern California Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; and is the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of […]
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Screening of “Okinawa: The Afterburn” with Director John Junkerman
Communications 150, Studio CQ&A with Director John Junkerman to follow the film Introduction by Professor Alan Christy, Department of History Directed by John Junkerman, long-term resident of Japan and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, the brand-new “Okinawa: The Afterburn” is a sweeping, in-depth look at the wartime and postwar history of Okinawa and the massive American military presence on the island. Consisting […]
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Last Day of Freedom Film Screening
Kresge Town HallYou are invited to a film screening and presentation of Last Day of Freedom, an award winning film by UCSC Associate Professor Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman. Last Day of Freedom is a richly animated personal narrative that tells the story of one man’s decision to stand by his brother, a Veteran returning from war, […]
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Cowell Senior Commons Room Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities by Todd Presner, David Shepard, and Yoh Kawano Join the Digital Humanities Working Group will meet to discuss Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities. Elaine Sullivan will lead our discussion about Hypercities and the impact of mapping on Humanities research. For a copy of the selected […]
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CANCELLED: Jonathan Ellis: “Philosophy and the Public”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Works in Progress Talk by Jonathan Ellis has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled for a date in January. Please stay tuned for more information. Jonathan Ellis Works in Progress: Philosophy and the Public At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The […]
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Enduring Power – Photography Exhibit – Nov. 2 – Dec. 17
Resource Center for Non ViolenceEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story — A Photography Exhibit — November 2 – December 17, 2015 AT: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA Exhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment, 831-423-1626 Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural, Enduring Power’s striking images […]
FreeJoel Kaminsky: “Does God Play Favorites?: A Dialogue on Chosenness in Genesis”
Porter College, Room 144Professor Kaminsky will explore various motifs surrounding the theme of special divine favor toward certain individuals and groups that pervades Genesis in hopes of illuminating these often troubling narratives. The talk will be conducted as a dialogue prompted by questions raised by Professor Nathaniel Deutsch and the students in his course. Joel S. Kaminsky is […]
FreeStacey Katz Bourns: “Integrating Grammar Pedagogy within New Frameworks for Language Instruction”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesForeign language programs in the 21st Century are in a period of transition. Many applied linguistics researchers now consider Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) to be antiquated and are initiating alternate approaches, some more compelling than others. Central to the discussion is the always-controversial topic of grammar pedagogy. How should grammar be taught and learned? How […]
FreeEnduring Power – Photography Exhibit – Nov. 2 – Dec. 17
Resource Center for Non ViolenceEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story — A Photography Exhibit — November 2 – December 17, 2015 AT: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA Exhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment, 831-423-1626 Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural, Enduring Power’s striking images […]
FreeElliott Moreton: “Implicit and Explicit Learning of Phonotactic Patterns”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: What properties are shared by the processes used for learning linguistic and non-linguistic patterns? What properties are different? Research on non-linguistic (mainly visual) pattern learning has found distinct implicit and explicit processes which have different computational architectures, are facilitated by different experimental conditions, and differ in sensitivity to different pattern types. Is the same […]
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