Events

"Person: Inventory and Realization" is a joint work with Peter Ackema, of the University of Edinburgh. In this presentation Dr. Neeleman will develop a theory in which person features are more abstract than usually assumed: they do not refer to speaker or addressee, but are rather used to navigate a 'person space' . The theory […]

Current theories of speech perception emphasize the demonstrated role of direct experience in voice processing where greater experience with a voice or voice type results in various processing advantages. This talk describes early results from a project examining the role of stereotypes, or more abstracted representations not necessarily based in direct experience, in the processing […]

The Language Program, Cowell College, and Stevenson College cordially invite you and your students to attend a performance of The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIII (IP), an annual multilingual program of […]

Lisa Lowe This lecture examines the fetishism of colonial commodities as a mediation of often obscured connections between the transatlantic African slave trade to the Americas, settler colonialism, the import […]

The Graduate Division cordially invites undergraduate and graduate students to an information session on the U.S. Fulbright IIE fellowship program. If you are interested in applying for a 2014-2015 Fulbright […]

"Teaching Natural Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment" Michael Nauenberg has published on the foundations of quantum mechanics and has written extensively on the development of calculus in the seventeenth […]

The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World" The […]

I defend a Humean theory of motivation on which desire motivates all action and drives all practical reasoning. I respond to objections from Christine Korsgaard, David Velleman, and others suggesting […]

Lauren Shufran is the winner of The Motherwell Prize. Her poetry collection Inter Arma will be published be Fence Books in Spring, 2013. Tsering Wangmo's first book of poems, Rules […]

"The Rice Queen's Brown Boy Dream: On Pedophilic Modernity, Performance and Queer Asia" Eng-Beng Lim works on transnational, Asian and queer issues through the lens of performance. His current work […]