BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20100314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20101107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110301T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110301T154500 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20101124T030700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101124T030700Z UID:10004679-1298988000-1298994300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jael Silliman: "Jewish Portraits\, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope" DESCRIPTION: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 to the Western world. Dr. Silliman\, who is a member of that community\, will talk about the material\, religious and cultural life of the community\, and trace the history of this diaspora community through the lives of four generations of women in her family. She will challenge many conventional notions of what it means to live in diaspora\, reframe the role that women played in this traveling community\, and highlights the ways in which their fluid identities enabled this economically successfull Jewish community to negotiate both colonialism and nationalism to advance their own interests. \nJael Silliman now resides in Calcutta\, India. She is an independent Consultant\, serves on the Board of Breakthrough for Human Rights\, and the Indian Holdeen Fund. She is writing a book of short stories. \nPrior to returning to India\, Jael served as the Program Officer for Women’s Rights & Gender Equity in the Human Rights Unit\, Peace and Social Justice Program of the Ford Foundation. Immediately before that\, she was the Program Officer for Reproductive Rights. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation she had been a tenured Associate Professor in the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Iowa. \nJael is the recipient of the Iowa City Human Rights Commission International Human Rights Award and an Open Society Fellow. She is the author of numerous books and articles. Her most recent co-authored book\, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice\, received a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award in the area of bigotry and human rights. She is also the author of Jewish Portraits\, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from A Diaspora of Hope\, and co-editor of Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population\, Environment and Policing the National Body: Race\, Gender and Criminalization. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jael-silliman-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110302T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110302T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20110111T194330Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110111T194330Z UID:10004716-1299068100-1299072600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Maria Frangos: “Queer Morphologies” DESCRIPTION: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. \nProfessor Frangos is Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC. \nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maria-frangos-queer-morphologies-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110303T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110303T153000 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20110223T193112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110223T193112Z UID:10004755-1299160800-1299166200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ned Blackhawk: "The Indigenous West of Mark Twain: Samuel Clemens and American Empire\, 1861-1866" DESCRIPTION: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 Goshute Shoshones and Native Hawaiians—in Clemens’ early writings and identifies longstanding uncertainties about the place of non-Anglophone and indigenous peoples in Twain’s authorship. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ned-blackhawk-the-indigenous-west-of-mark-twain-samuel-clemens-and-american-empire-1861-1866-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110303T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110303T174500 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20110223T192008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110223T192008Z UID:10004753-1299168000-1299174300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Julie Drucker: "The Jewish Community in Venezuela: Walking the Tightrope of the New Anti-Semitism?" DESCRIPTION: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 hostile government-led reactions in Venezuela\, keeping the local community on edge. How different is this from Jews’ previous experience in Venezuela? How has the community responded? Is the community under threat? \nDrawing from current interviews of community leaders and lay people\, we will explore these questions to attempt to understand the unfolding of a top-down\, new approach to Jews in Venezuela. \nJulie Drucker was born in England and raised in Caracas\, Venezuela\, where she spent 24 years.  She grew up in a trilingual environment\, and has earned a BA and Masters degree Summa Cum Laude from UCLA in Latin American Studies\, with emphasis on Political Science. \nAt present\, Julie works as a certified simultaneous interpreter for the Criminal Courts in Los Angeles and free-lances as a translator for a variety of institutions and artists in the private and public sectors.  Ms. Drucker is a contributing writer to the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and has been closely monitoring the Jewish community in Venezuela for the past 10 years. \nJulie Drucker’s talk is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies with generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julie-drucker-the-jewish-community-in-venezuela-walking-the-tightrope-of-the-new-anti-semitism-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110303T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110303T194500 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20110110T193223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110110T193223Z UID:10004708-1299175200-1299181500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Sesshu Foster and Rob Wilson DESCRIPTION: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 Ball Notebook won a 2006 Believer Magazine Annual Book Prize and the 2010 American Book Award. \n \nRob Wilson has published poems in various journals from Tinfish\, Taxi\, Manoa\, and Central Park\, to The New Republic\, Ploughshares\, Partisan Review and Poetry\, and in a book called Waking In Seoul.  His study Be Always Converting\, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2009.  A new work Beat Attitudes:  On the Roads to Beatitude for Post-Beat Writers\, Dharma Bums\, and Cultural-Political Activists is just out with New Pacific Press. \nCo-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program\, the Literature Department\, and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-sesshu-foster-and-rob-wilson-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110308T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110308T173000 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20110223T192617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110223T192617Z UID:10004754-1299600000-1299605400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Miguel Tamen: "Resistance and Interpretation" DESCRIPTION: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 since 2000. His first book won the Portuguese PEN Club Essay Award (1987). He is the author of six books\, among which are Friends of Interpretable Objects (2001) and The Matter of the Facts (2000). Two more books are forthcoming. In 2010/11 Tamen is a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the National Humanities Center. \nProfessor Tamen’ talk is sponsored by the Department of Literature and co-sponsored by the departments of History of Consciousness and History of Art and Visual Culture. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/miguel-tamen-resistance-and-interpretation-2/ LOCATION:Humanites 1\, Room 320\, Humanities and Social Science Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110308T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110308T180000 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20101124T031056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101124T031056Z UID:10004694-1299600000-1299607200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Noel King Memorial Lecture: Jonathan Brown and Nathaniel Deutsch DESCRIPTION:Noel King Memorial Lecture \nSpeakers: Jonathan Brown (Georgetown) and Nathaniel Deutsch (UCSC) \nTitle: “Muslims\, Jews\, and Modernity: Religious\, Cultural\, and Intellectual Responses” \nReception to Follow URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jonathan-brown-noel-king-memorial-lecture-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110309T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110309T091000 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20110302T225222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110302T225222Z UID:10004559-1299657600-1299661800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:James Young: "Holocaust Memorials and the 9/11 New York Memorial" DESCRIPTION: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 Berlin Holocaust Commission and is the Chair of the 9/11 Memorial Commission in New York City. \nHe will be speaking about “Holocaust Memorials and the 9/11 New York Memorial” — Professor Young is an alumnus of UCSC and holds a PhD from the campus. He is the General Editor of the Posen Library of Jewish Civilization\, published by Yale University Press\, and the author of important books on the Holocaust and Visual Memory\, including At Memory’s Edge. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/james-young-2/ LOCATION:Classroom Unit 2\, Classroom Unit‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, UC Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110309T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110309T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20110111T195559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110111T195559Z UID:10004717-1299672900-1299677400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Marcia Ochoa: "'La moda nace en Paris y muere en Caracas': Fashion\, Beauty and Consumption on the (Trans) National" DESCRIPTION: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. \nMarcia Ochoa is Assistant Professor of Community Studies at UCSC.\n  \nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marcia-ochoa-la-moda-nace-en-paris-y-muere-en-caracas-fashion-beauty-and-consumption-on-the-trans-national-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110310T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110310T194500 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20110110T193804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110110T193804Z UID:10004709-1299780000-1299786300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Graduate Student Readings DESCRIPTION: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. \nCo-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program\, the Literature Department\, and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-graduate-student-readings-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110310T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110310T203000 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20110307T185633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110307T185633Z UID:10004561-1299783600-1299789000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Writing Program’s 2011 Reading Series DESCRIPTION:The Writing Program’s 2011 Reading Series \nPlease 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 add their work to our annual series.  Please join us for a fantastic evening\, and see that we all do far more than teach in the classroom. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-writing-programs-2011-reading-series-3-2/ LOCATION:Charles E. Merrill Lounge END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110311T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110311T173000 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20110302T204326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110302T204326Z UID:10004558-1299859200-1299864600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Norvin Richards: "Generalized Contiguity" DESCRIPTION: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 to move its wh-phrases then depends on how its prosody is organized.  Some languages can leave wh-phrases in situ and manipulate the prosody of the sentence to satisfy the prosodic requirement; others cannot do this\, and must move the wh-phrase to make it sufficiently prosodically close to C. \nIn this talk I will generalize the prosodic requirement I posited for the relation between C and wh-phrases\, applying it to all pairs of syntactic objects that are related either by Agree or by selection.  Data handled by the resulting theory include a variety of facts about the placement of adverbs in languages like English and French (traditionally accounted for via claims about the structural height of verbs)\, the Final-over-Final Constraint of Biberauer et al (2010)\, and the requirement that clauses with English quotative inversion cannot have auxiliaries. \nNorvin Richards\, Professor of Linguistics at MIT\, will give this talk as part of the CrISP Distinguished Visitors Series. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/norvin-richards-generalized-contiguity-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110314T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110314T210000 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20110301T225222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110301T225222Z UID:10004756-1300122000-1300136400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Food Anxieties: A Symposium on the Question of “What to Eat” DESCRIPTION: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 328 Ingalls Street in Santa Cruz. The symposium will feature a thought-provoking discussion of food advice\, risk\, and avoidance with renowned food scholars from across the nation. The symposium will be followed by a reception and wine talk with Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyard. \nThe event is free and open to the public\, though prior registration is required. For a full list of guest speakers and to register\, visit the event website at http://foodandbody.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=234 \nFood Anxieties is sponsored by the UC Studies of Food and the Body Multicampus Research Program\, Bonny Doon Wineries\, and the Institute for Humanities Research and the UCSC Department of Anthropology. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/food-anxieties-a-symposium-on-the-question-of-what-to-eat-2/ LOCATION:Cellar Door Cafe\, 328 Ingalls Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110317T210000 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20101013T012803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101013T012803Z UID:10004624-1300388400-1300395600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Paul Festa: "Apparition of the Eternal Church" and "The Glitter Emergency" DESCRIPTION: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. \nApparition of the Eternal Church is winner of Best North American Independent Feature Film – Indianapolis International Film Festival; winner of Best Experimental Film – Rome International Film Festival; winner of Special Director’s Prize – Santa Cruz Film Festival; and winner of Gold Medal for Excellence – Park City Film Festival. \nThe Glitter Emergency is winner of the Best Experimental Film – Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood. \nPaul Festa is the author of Oh My God: Messiaen in the Ear of the Unbeliever based on his film. For more information about the films please visit apparitionfilm.com and theglitteremergency.com. \nSponsored by the Queer Theory Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-festa-apparition-of-the-eternal-church-and-the-glitter-emergency-2/ LOCATION:First Congregational Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110329T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110329T133000 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20110310T182953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110310T182953Z UID:10004562-1301400000-1301405400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Michael Wagner: "The Locality of Allomorph Selection and Production Planning" DESCRIPTION:CrISP is proud to present: \nMichael Wagner (McGill University): “The Locality of Allomorph Selection and Product Planning” \nEnglish -ing varies between two phonologically distinct allomorphs\, [iŋ] and [in]. 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 been shown to be relevant (Houston\, 1985): the allomorph [in] is more likely when a coronal segment follows. Strictly localist theories of morphology (e.g.\, Bobaljik\, 2000; Embick\, 2010) predict that the phonological context should only be able to affect allomorph selection under syntactic locality conditions. Globalist theories (e.g.\, theories of allomorph choice formulated within standard optimality theory) predict that in principle any information in a linguistic representation could affect allomorph choice. This paper reports on experimental data involving -ing-allomorphy that seems incompatible with both types of theories.\nAs illustrated in (1) and (2)\, we crossed the syntactic environment (local vs. non-local) with the phonological environment (a-[ə] vs. the-[ð])\, using a syntactic contrast familiar from studies of prosodic phrasing (e.g.\, Itzak et al. 2010): \n(1)\nLocal:\na. Whenever the boy was browsing a book the game would fall off the table.\nb. Whenever the boy was browsing the book the game would fall off the table. \n(2)\nNon-Local:\na. Whenever the boy was browsing a book would fall off the table.\nb. Whenever the boy was browsing the book would fall off the table. \nLocalist theories predict that the phonological context should be able to affect the choice of allomorph when the word providing the phonological environment is syntactically local as in (1)\, but not when it is part of the next sentence (2). Globalist theories predict that phonological context should be relevant in both types of cases. \nThe results show an effect of phonology both in (1) and (2). This is unexpected under the localist account. However\, the effect is much smaller in (2)\, which is unexpected under the globalist account. \nThe interaction between phonology and syntax suggests that syntactic locality might be relevant after all. However\, within the syntactic conditions\, there is a quantitative correlation between the strength of the prosodic boundary separating the verb and its complement and the liklihood of a phonological effect of the following word. In other words\, whether the phonological form of the following word has an influence on allomorph choice depends gradiently on the strength of the prosodic boundary separating the two words even within the same syntactic condition. Once these quantitative measures of boundary strength are taken into account\, the effect of between syntactic conditions vanishes: the difference between (1) and (2) in the size of the phonological effect is completely explicable as a result of the difference in boundary strength between the two structures. \nThe pattern of phonological conditioning can be accounted for by a model of allomorph selection that is constrained by the locality of production planning. The segmental content of an upcoming word can have an effect on allomorph choice if its phonological form is already available at the time of vocabulary insertion. The strength of a prosodic boundary negatively correlates with the availability of the following word\, and can thus serve as a proxy measure for the locality of production planning. \nThe data suggests that the phonological effect on allomorph choice\, at least in this case\, can be stated in purely segmental terms. The apparent effect of syntax on the phonologically conditioning of allomorph choice can be explained by its indirect effect on the likelihood that the phonological material of the upcoming word is already planned out at time when allomorph selection happens. This suggests a more modular view of the syntax/morph-phonology interaction across word boundaries than current approaches that assume an interleaving of phonology and syntax. \nThe account in terms of the locality of production planning provides a potential explanation why individuals in our experiment and the dialects described in the literature only seem to vary in the proportion with which they choose the allomorphs (from almost always [in] to almost always [iŋ])\, but none seem to show a complementary distribution according to phonological or syntactic context: the reason is that the conditioning environment is only probabilistically available depending on how much planning is been possible\, and this varies depending on the structure of sentence and other factors. In other words\, there might be a reason why ing-allomorph selection is consistently a variable process: reliably planning out an entire utterance in all its phonological detail is difficult if not impossible. Other cases of phonologically conditioned allomorphy are considered and their amenability to an account in terms of the locality of production planning is discussed. \nCrosslinguistic Investigations in Syntax-Phonology (CrISP) s a collaborative research group within the UC Santa Cruz and Stanford University Linguistics Departments.  Generous support has been provided by the UC Humanities Network\, the Tanya Honig Fund for Linguistics Graduate Students\, and Stanford University Linguistics research funding.  Staff support provided by the Institution for Humanities Research. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michael-wagner-2/ LOCATION:Stanford University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110331T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110331T180000 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20110331T015657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20110331T015657Z UID:10004572-1301587200-1301594400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Colin Koopman: "Pleasure and Parrhesia in Foucault's Self-Transformative Ethics" DESCRIPTION: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 ethics are an attempt to specify a formal mode or style of ethical practice which can gain determinate normative content only in contexts of actual ethical practice.  The guiding ethical orientation in Foucault’s late writings is\, I argue\, self-transformation as a practice of freedom.  After defending Foucault along these lines\, I discuss how self-transformation helps us understand the relatively more determinate ethical conceptions of pleasure and parrhesia (fearless speech) developed in Foucault’s late writings.  I conclude with some sharp questions about the lack of sufficient determinate ethical content in these conceptions\, thus opening the possibility for supplementing Foucault’s ethics with the work of other self-transformative moral philosophers\, including for\ninstance William James. \nProfessor Colin Koopman (BA Evergreen State College 1998\, MA Leeds University 1999\, PhD McMaster University 2006) will be speaking at 4:00 on Thursday\, March 31\, 2011 at the Philosophy department colloquium held in the Cowell Conference Room. This event is free and open to the campus community. His area of specialty includes but is not limited to Pragmatism & American Philosophy\, Genealogy & Critical Theory\, Political & Social Philosophy\, etc.  Professor Koopman was awarded a Doctoral Fellowship (04-06) and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (06-08) for his work with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. More recently he received the Robert F. and Evelyn Nelson Wulf Professorship\, as well as the Oregon Humanities Center Teaching Fellowship (11-12). He has taught at UC Santa Cruz (08-09) and currently resides as a Assistant Professor at University of Oregon. He has also given courses as a visiting lecture at UC Berkeley’s School of Information (09). URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/colin-koopmanpleasure-and-parrhesia-in-foucaults-self-transformative-ethics-2/ LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110331T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110331T180000 DTSTAMP:20260428T025659 CREATED:20101119T181317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20101119T181317Z UID:10004523-1301590800-1301594400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Jodi Magness: “The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls” DESCRIPTION: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 a Jewish sect – apparently the  Essenes – who lived at Qumran.  In this slide-illustrated lecture\, we explore the ancient remains at Qumran and discuss the contents and significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls. \nJodi Magness holds a senior endowed chair in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism. From 1992-2002\, she was Associate/ Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology in the Departments of Classics and Art History at Tufts University\, Medford\, MA. She received her B.A. in Archaeology and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1977)\, and her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania (1989). From 1990-92\, Magness was Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Syro- Palestinian Archaeology at the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art at Brown University. \nMagness’ book The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls(Grand Rapids\, MI: Eerdmans\, 2002) won the 2003 Biblical Archaeology Society’s Award for Best Popular Book in Archaeology in 2001-2002 and was selected as an “Outstanding Academic Book for 2003” by Choice Magazine. Magness’ book The Archaeology of the Early Islamic Settlement in Palestine (Winona Lake\, IN: Eisenbrauns\, 2003) was awarded the 2006 Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize in the category of non-fiction on the archaeology of Israel. \nSnack reception at 4:30\, talk begins at 5. \nStaff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jodi-magness-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR