Events

This talk will present a practical overview of the use of authentic texts for language learning purposes within the context of contemporary second language acquisition (SLA) research. Some of the questions that will be addressed during this talk include: What are the benefits and potential difficulties of authentic texts vis-à-vis graded readers? What are the […]

In the nineteenth and twentieth centures the Baghdadi Jewish diaspora stretched from Basra to Shanghai, with Calcutta acting as an important trading center on that route. During that time Calcutta was home to a thriving Jewish community that played an important role in the City's mercantile development. After India's Independence, 1947, the community relocated mostly […]

Professor Frangos’s “Queer Morphologies” explores metamorphosis and non-human embodiment in literature from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance as sites of queer possibility and potentiality. The project asks how human/animal metamorphoses surface and resurface to produce and negotiate nonnormative configurations of sexuality, gender, and kinship. Professor Frangos is Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC. Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with […]

Building upon the last sections of his first book, Violence over the Land, in this presentation Ned Blackhawk reevaluates the American West’s most famous if often under-recognized author, Samuel Clemens, whose more famous pseudonym, Mark Twain, was first deployed in 1863 in Virginia City, Nevada’s Territorial Enterprise. This presentation considers the place of indigenous peoples—specifically […]

For the first time in its history, the Jewish community in Venezuela has found itself facing a consistent, 10-year barrage of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish statements from President Chavez’s administration and his pro-government media.  Recent events in Israel, such as the 2006 war in Lebanon, the 2009 Gaza incursion, and the Flotilla event in 2010, have triggered […]

Sesshu Foster taught composition and literature in East L.A. and writing at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts,  and UC Santa Cruz. He has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Asia and Beyond, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. His works, Atomik Aztex and World […]

Noel King Memorial Lecture Speakers: Jonathan Brown (Georgetown) and Nathaniel Deutsch (UCSC) Title: "Muslims, Jews, and Modernity: Religious, Cultural, and Intellectual Responses" Reception to Follow

Miguel Tamen specializes in philosophy and literature and Portuguese literature. His interests include the philosophy of language, interpretation, and moral philosophy, as well as aesthetics. He is Professor of Literary Theory and Chair of the Program in Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago […]

Professor James Young, Director of Jewish and Holocaust Studies at UMass Amherst, will speak Wednesday March 9 at UCSC. His talk will take place in Classroom Building Unit 2 from 8 -9:10 am as part of a class on the Holocaust and is open to the general public. Professor Young was the Chair of the […]

Professor Ochoa works at the conjuncture of the ethnography of media, modernity in Latin America, and queer/transgender studies. Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Misses and Mass Media in Venezuela (Duke, forthcoming) is a queer diasporic ethnography of femininity, spectacle, and nation in Venezuela. Marcia Ochoa is Assistant Professor of Community Studies at UCSC.   Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies […]

This week the Living Writers Series offers a selection of readings by UCSC Graduate Students, including Juliana Leslie, Tim Yamamura, Jake Thomas, Andrea Quaid, and Eireene Nealand. Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Literature Department, and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.

The Writing Program's 2011 Reading Series Please join us in welcoming two new voices to the Faculty Reading Series:  Terry Terhaar will be reading non-fiction and Travis Mossetti will be reading poetry.  A returning reader, Maureen Foster, will also be reading poetry.  As we add new teachers to our faculty, it is a pleasure to […]

In Richards (2010) I posited a universal condition on the prosody of wh-questions, which was intended to predict whether a given language would move its wh-phrases or leave them in situ.  The condition requires a wh-phrase to be in the same prosodic domain as the interrogative complementizer which Agrees with it.  Whether a language has […]

The UC Multi-Campus Research Program on Studies of Food and the Body invite you to the Public Event "Food Anxieties: A Symposium on the Question of 'What to Eat.'” This event will take place on Monday, March 14th from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Cellar Door Cafe at Bonny Doon Vineyard, located at […]

The UCSC Center for Cultural Studies, departments of History of Art and Visual Culture, History of Consciousness, Literature, Sociology, Film and Digital Media, and the Queer Theory Research Cluster present two films by Paul Festa, with live musical accompaniment. Apparition of the Eternal Church is winner of Best North American Independent Feature Film - Indianapolis […]

CrISP is proud to present: Michael Wagner (McGill University): "The Locality of Allomorph Selection and Product Planning" English -ing varies between two phonologically distinct allomorphs, and . Across different varieties of English this variation has been shown to depend on gender, speaking style, and socio-economic factors (Fischer, 1958; Labov, 1972; Trudgill, 1972). Phonological context has also […]

Michel Foucault's late writings on ethics have been subjected to severe scrutiny by a host of critics. I suggest that these criticisms have for the most part been misguided because of a meta-ethical error too often relied upon in interpretations of Foucault.  I offer a distinction between ethical 'orientations' and ethical 'commitments'.  Rather than offering substantive normative content, I argue, Foucault's […]

In 1946-47, Bedouins found the first Dead Sea Scrolls in a cave near the site of Qumran, by the shore of the Dead Sea.  Eventually remains of over 900 scrolls were discovered in 11 caves surrounding Qumran.  The scrolls, which date to about the time of Jesus, were deposited in the caves by members of […]