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The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Catherine Jones History, UCSC Excluded from favored liberal remedies for realizing new freedoms in postemancipation Virginia, children nevertheless shaped broad Reconstruction contests over the meaning of freedom. This paper focuses on children in order to consider whether liberal assumptions embedded in the idea of agency have excessively narrowed historians' […]
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The Medici Archive Project Presents: Preview a presentation by Lisa Kaborycha of the Medici Archive Project, Florence, of a new, interactive digital platform that will debut as freeware this July. This platform is adaptable for the needs of many kinds of document management, and Lisa will be on hand to discuss its properties and capacities.
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A Celebration in Honor of Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday Anniversary Year Co-sponsored by The Dickens Project, University of California, Santa Cruz An Important Notice of (perhaps) the one and only all-day Dickens Day Celebration in San Francisco, hence, one that should not be missed on all account. Thus, a brief description of what will occur […]
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Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies Director, is the 2012 recipient of the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities. Both students and colleagues alike offered high praise regarding Alan's teaching skills and the positive impact he has had on students over the years. John Dizikes will be on hand to present […]
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This year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations will be held in conjunction with the Celebrating Humanities event. Following is the schedule: 1:00 - 3:00 pm: HUGRA Awards 3:00 - 4:00 pm: Refreshments 4:00 - 6:00 pm: Spring Awards
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The annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, awards, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. Highlights include the presentation of the John Dizikes Teaching Awards in Humanities, which honors the teaching efforts of faculty. Event Photos: The categories for acknowledgement this […] |
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This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many, varying communities including performance art collaborations, small press publishing and editorial projects, virtual and digital work, academic affiliations, and intersecting aesthetic, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as […]
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Matthew Tucker This talk discusses the interplay between syntax (the order of words and structure in sentences) and morphology (the structure of words) in natural language and the role it can play in linguistic theorizing. While traditional approaches often look at purely syntactic or purely morphological explanations, data from three unrelated syntactic phenomena can be […] |
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This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many, varying communities including performance art collaborations, small press publishing and editorial projects, virtual and digital work, academic affiliations, and intersecting aesthetic, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as […] |
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LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES PRESENTS: "In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar" Patricia Lunn Professor Emeritus of Spanish Michigan State University Discussions about teaching grammar in the foreign language classroom are usually cast in terms of when (in order of acquisition) and how much (as against other activities). A little-discussed aspect of grammar teaching is what […] |
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The Office of Research is sponsoring a series of Research Ethics Fora for faculty, postdocs and graduate students. The first forum in the Series "Are You My Data?" is on Tuesday May 8th in the Alumni Room of the University Center and is hosted by Prof. Jennifer Reardon of the Science & Justice Working Group. […] |
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The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Loren Goldman Assistant Professor, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Townsend Fellow at UCB Professor Goldman is a political theorist whose work concerns the intersection of utopian thought and political agency. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the concept of political hope in the modern period from Kant to Dewey. Co-sponsored by […]
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The Dickens Project would like to welcome everyone to visit the exhibit of its 32-year history, mounted in four display cases just outside Special Collections on the 3rd floor of McHenry Library. The exhibit makes note of both the scholarly and the outreach missions of the Project, and will be up for the duration of […]
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UCSC Language Program, Italian Studies Program, Cowell Provost and History Department Present: A 2005 documentary folk by Gianfranco Norelli and Fabrizio Laurenti followed by a conversation with director Norelli. Reception at Cowell Provost's House 7:00PM. Running tim 55 minutes in English Mussolini's Secret tells the unknown story of Benito Albino, Mussolini's secret son, and his […] |
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In 1928 the Communist Party developed an unconventional and intriguing proposal that black people in the Black Belt of the Southern United States were an unrecognized national group and should have rights to self-determination, a move later called the “Black Nation Thesis.” Written in Moscow, the Black Nation Thesis was forged in the US through […]
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Natalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, and editor. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. Her poetry collections include: The Neverfield, The Lives of Rain, shortlisted for The Agnes Lynch Starret Poetry Prize and the recipient of the Menada Literary Award, and Love and Strange […] |
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Join us on Friday, May 11th for the 8th Annual Graduate Research Symposium. This event offers students an opportunity to share their research with faculty, staff, friends, colleagues and the local community in the form of poster, oral, live or multimedia presentations. This year's event featurs 20 oral and live presentations, 100 poster presentations and […]
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Dominique Sportiche works on formal syntax. He has focused on the theory of constituent structure, and properties of the syntax/semantics interface (especially in French and the Romance languages) as they bear on the architecture of syntactic or grammatical theory and on cognition in general. He has published work on phrase structure, agreement, clitics, and reconstruction […] |
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Elsa Davidson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Her research focuses on processes of aspiration formation and social reproduction among youth from diverse class, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. In particular, Dr. Davidson is interested in how young people forge aspirations in relation to experiences of schooling, rapid social and […] |
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The Department of Anthropology’s Emerging Worlds Lecture SeriesProfessor Immanuel Wallerstein Yale University“World-Systems Analysis and the Disciplines: The Past, the Present, and Hopefully the Future” Professor David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University, Discussant Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:00pm-9:00pm Kresge Town HallGraduate Student Workshop Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:00am – 12:00 noon Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Graduate Student […] |
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The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Kate Brown History Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore Modern utopias and nuclear wastelands come together in Professor Brown's "Plutopia" about the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium--Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia. New postwar communities of high-risk affluence alongside plutonium disasters and public health catastrophes were […]
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The Department of Anthropology’s Emerging Worlds Lecture Series Professor Immanuel Wallerstein Yale University“World-Systems Analysis and the Disciplines: The Past, the Present, and Hopefully the Future” Professor David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University, Discussant Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:00pm-9:00pm Kresge Town Hall Graduate Student Workshop Wednesday, May 16, 2012 10:00am – 12:00 noon Social Sciences 1, Room 261Graduate […]
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Dr. Tarlochan Singh Nahal will speak about his new book, Religion and Politics in Sikhism, in conversation with Professor Nirvikar Singh. Dr. Nahal received his PhD in Political Science from Senior University International, under the supervision of Dr. Noel Q. King, then Professor Emeritus at UCSC. Dr. Nahal has organized several international conferences on Sikhism, […] |
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Having survived residence in 4 states and 1 province, 20 towns & cities, 23 jobs, 3 families, and 15 schools, Marshall has slipped the noose of his handful of chapbooks and for now settled into a fresh way of making his poetry: free and green in blogbooks online. Impressed by the productive tensions between vocabularies […] |
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Lisa Davidson Lisa Davidson is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Phonetics & Experimental Phonology Lab and Affiliate Faculty in Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on laboratory phonology, speech production and perception, and language acquisition. This talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett, […]
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COWELL COLLEGE, STEVENSON COLLEGE, & THE LANGUAGE PROGRAM present International Playhouse XII THEATER PIECES in EIGHT languages with ENGLISH SUPERTITLES THURSDAY & SATURDAY, May 17 &19, 2012, at 8 PM (Chinese Italian Russian French) 神來之筆 (The Magic Brush) by A. Stang, directed by Ting-Ting Wu and Anna Stang LA RAGAZZA MELA (The Apple Girl) by I. Calvino, […] |
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The Humanities Division and the Institute for Humanities Research presents: An Evening with David Talbot David Talbot, founder and CEO of the San Francisco based web magazine Salon, is uniquely poised to tell his iconic city’s story in all its terrible glory. He will read from his new book, Season of the Witch. Talbot has […] |
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The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Anjali Arondekar Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC Histories of sexuality routinely mediate geopolitical difference(s) through the narrative forms of marginality, disenfranchisement and loss. What happens if we shift our attention from the reading of sexuality as marginality to understanding it as a site of vitalized abundance--even futurity? |
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Opening Remarks 8:45 – 9:00 a.m. Karen Tei Yamashita Director, Literature Department Undergraduate Program Panel One: Creative Writing: Memoir 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Claire Williams: This Girl Pulls the Whole World Over Herself: A Short Memoir in 3 Parts Lauren Vargas: The Echoes of Light Cynthia Pinto: A Picture Starts a Lifetime Cheyenne Street Houck: […]
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Justin Chin was born in Malaysia, raised & educated in Singapore, shipped to the U.S. by way of Hawaii, and now living in San Francisco. Author of 3 books of poetry, all published by Manic D Press: Bite Hard (1997); Harmless Medicine (2001), a finalist in the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Awards; and, Gutted […] |
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The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Michael Ursell Literature, UCSC While critics have dismissed an image of the Renaissance humanist Petrarch as a nature-lover, this talk reconsiders a poetics of the living in his work. Professor Ursell looks at how Petrarch's "life writing" and "life reading" have been understood in relation to global ecology and […] |
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SAM BALL WILL PRESENT HIS WORK WITH TWO GRAPHIC NOVELISTS: Joann Sfar Draws from Memory and Ben Katchor: Pleasures of Urban Decay Sam Ball’s documentaries have been exhibited at many of America's most prestigious venues for independent film, ranging from the Sundance Film Festival to the Museum of Modern Art - New York’s documentary fortnight, […]
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Lysley Tenorio is a Filipino-American short story writer. Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A Whiting Writer’s Award winner and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy, […] |
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Abstract: For many years the majority opinion in the literature has been that epistemic modals cannot scope under past tense (e.g., Groenendijk & Stokhof 1975, Cinque 1999, Abraham 2001, Drubig 2001, Fagan 2001, Condoravdi 2002, Stowell 2004, Hacquard 2006, Borgonovo & Cummins 2007, Demirdache & Uribe-Etxebarria 2008, Laca 2008). This view is based largely on […]
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Have recent developments in digital art led to new "democratic" spaces? Who constitutes a democratic subject in on-line digital space? What does a new politics of representation look like? How do race and ethnicity appear (or disappear) in such spaces? How can artworks constitute democratic audiences? Join scholars and artists as they discuss these topics […] |
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