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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140109T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140109T200000
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Reyna Grande
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nNovelist/Memoirist Reyna Grande is the author of the novels Across a Hundred Mountains andDancing with Butterflies\, for which she received an American Book Award (2007) and an International Latino Book Award (2010). Her most recent book\, The Distance Between Us\, is a memoir about her life before and after illegally immigrating from Mexico to the United States. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as“the Angela’s Ashes of the modern Mexican immigrant experience\,” it was a finalist for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-9/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140113T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140113T183000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023943
CREATED:20140108T000503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140108T000503Z
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SUMMARY:Berenice Darwich: "Continuity and discontinuity in syntactic patterns in New York City.  A look at co-referential complex sentences"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Berenice Darwich\, Hispanic Linguistics\, CUNY Colleges; New York\, New York.\nAbstract: \nThe variable phenomenon of subject expression\, specifically in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences\, is analyzed in a subset of interviews of Mexican and Dominican Spanish speakers from the Otheguy and Zentella corpus of Spanish in New York City. \nBy taking into account the generation of speakers (first and second) and the syntactic hierarchy of the second clause (main or subordinate)\, the study will address the following questions: \nIs there pattern continuity in regards to subject expression in contexts of co-reference among generation of speakers?\nIs there an influence of English in regards to this pattern in second generation speakers?\nIs there a correlation between subject expression and the syntactic hierarchy of a clause across geographical varieties? \nThe hypothesis that guides this investigation is that in this context\, subject pronoun expression in the second clause is an instrument to signal the principal information of a message\, carried in the main clause of a complex sentence. \nResults confirm previous studies regarding this variable phenomenon in Spanish in general and in New York City: Dominican Spanish speakers favor pronoun subject expression more than Mexican Spanish speakers\, even in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences. When we look at the frequencies by each geographical variety in this very specific context\, the distributional differences allow a classification of the varieties in two different groups (Mexican pattern and Dominican pattern). But this trend does not hold when the generational group is considered\, showing a reverse pattern in the second generation Dominican speakers. \nThese findings confirm partially the hypothesis since it is only the first generation Dominicans who do not use subject pronoun expression as a mean to signal hierarchical syntactic information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/berenice-darwich-continuity-and-discontinuity-in-syntactic-patterns-in-new-york-city-a-look-at-co-referential-complex-sentences-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140115T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023943
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SUMMARY:Warren Montag: "Althusser's Lenin"
DESCRIPTION:Warren Montag’s research has two foci: French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s\, especially Althusser; and Literature and Philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. His recent book concerns the emergence of a necro-economics from French economic thinkers to Adam Smith (and beyond\, from Malthus to Von Mises). \nWarren Montag is Brown Family Professor of Literature in the English Department at Occidental College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-warren-montag-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140116T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140116T183000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023943
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SUMMARY:Warren Montag: “The Revocation of the Right to Subsistence: On the Legal and Political Origins of the Market”
DESCRIPTION:Warren Montag is the Brown Family Professor of Literature\, English Department\, Occidental College. He has published widely on French and Italian thought of the 1960s and 1970s\, especially Louis Althusser\, as well as on literature and philosophy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Descartes\, Hobbes\, Spinoza\, Locke\, Swift\, and Adam Smith. His most recent book is Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War (Duke University Press\,2013)\, and he has also published translations of Althusser\, Pierre Macherey\, and Étienne Balibar. His forthcoming book\, co-authored with Mike Hill\, is “The Other Adam Smith: Popular Contention\, Commercial Society and the Birth of Necro-Economics” (Stanford University Press). \nThis event is part of “The Origins of Civil Society” organized by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. The development of the discipline of political economy\, including its dialogue with modern political philosophy\, is closely intertwined with the rise and expansion of capitalist society. As we turn our attention today to capitalism’s crisis tendencies and the future of market society\, a critical examination of this foundational history becomes the starting point of the analysis of the present. This lecture series addresses the origins of civil society from several vantage points: the legal and political forms that underlie market relations; the transformation of the labor process; the role of gender and reproductive labor; and the history of separation from the means of subsistence. \nAdditional events in this series:\nFeb 6\, 2014 – Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism\, Marxism\, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries”\nMar 6\, 2014 – Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel” \nPresented by the Crisis in the Cultures of Capitalism Research Cluster. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. For more information\, including disabled access\, please contact Evin Guy: (831) 459-5655\, ecguy@ucsc.edu. Maps: http://maps.ucsc.edu. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/warren-montag-crisis-in-the-cultures-of-capitalism-series-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140117T173000
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SUMMARY:Lisa Pearl: "More learnable than thou? Testing knowledge representations with realistic acquisition data"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: One (often implicit) motivation for a linguistic knowledge representation (e.g.\, a set of linguistic parameters or constraints) comes from an argument from acquisition\, where language acquisition is assumed to be straightforward if children’s hypothesis space is defined by the correct knowledge representation. Acquisition then becomes the process of selecting the correct language-specific grammar from that hypothesis space\, based on the language input encountered. I discuss quantitative metrics based on an argument from acquisition for comparing knowledge representations and the grammars they define. These metrics involve assessing grammar learnability from realistic input data\, and I use them to evaluate three prominent knowledge representations in the domain of metrical phonology that each define a grammar for English. Somewhat surprisingly\, I discover that learnability issues arise for the English grammars in all three representations. I discuss aspects of the proposed English grammars that may be hurting learnability as well as ways a child may still be able to learn the proposed English grammars from English input. \nLisa Pearl is Assistant Professor of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-lisa-pearl-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140117T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140117T183000
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SUMMARY:Marcela Depiante: "Preposition Stranding in Heritage Speakers of Spanish: Implications for the Interface Hypothesis"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn this talk\, we discuss the properties of Heritage Languages by examining Preposition Stranding in the Spanish of Heritage\nspeakers versus monolingual speakers of Spanish. We discuss the implications of this work for the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2000\, Tsimpli and Sorace 2006) as applied to Heritage speakers (Montrul 2009\, Montrul & Polinsky 2011) according to which changes in Heritage speaker syntax are restricted to areas of the grammar where the syntax interfaces with interpretable domains such as discourse/pragmatics. \nSince the possibility of preposition stranding constructions is one of purely syntactic features\, this hypothesis predicts that Heritage speakers of Spanish should not show variation from monolingual Spanish speakers with respect to these constructions. However\, the data that will be presented will show that they do and they do so in different syntactic contexts and with different types of prepositions. The data argues against extending the Interface Hypothesis to Heritage Speakers. \nIn addition\, we do not interpret the data found in this study of Spanish Heritage speakers as instances of incomplete acquisition. Instead\, the variation we observe between Heritage speakers and monolingual Spanish speakers with respect to the possibility of preposition stranding can be seen as variation between speakers of different varieties of Spanish and used as a further source of insight into the human language faculty. \nSpeaker: Marcela Depiante is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin\, Eau Claire
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marcela-depiante-preposition-stranding-in-heritage-speakers-of-spanish-implications-for-the-interface-hypothesis-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140119T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023943
CREATED:20140116T192448Z
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SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: Who Can Kill a Child?
DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \n  \nJanuary 19th – Who Can Kill a Child? One of the most disturbing horror films from a decade that was conspicuously filled with them\, Who Can Kill a Child? takes The Birds (1963) and replaces Alfred Hitchcock’s bloodthirsty birds with an island full of homicidal children. Directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (whose other horror film of note is the wonderfully sordid and atmospheric The House That Screamed from 1969)\, this Spanish production opens with a documentary montage of atrocity footage from around the world (the Holocaust\, the Korean War\, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971\, etc.) to polemically motivate the reasons why the children of the small island of Almanzora have collectively murdered the adult population there. Arriving in Almanzora on holiday\, the baby-expecting couple of Tom (Lewis Fiander) and Evelyn (Prunella Ransome) discover that the island appears to be deserted. Shops are untended\, no bellboys are waiting in the foyers of the island’s hotels\, restaurants are totally devoid of patrons or servers. The benign suspicion that the inhabitants are all on siesta\, however\, soon shifts to doubts and fears about the children who start to appear everywhere. Though not a gory film\, Who Can Kill a Child? remains a supremely unsettling film that will linger with you for a long time\, like it or lump it. Not to be missed! \n  \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n  \nFor more information\, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-1-19-14-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140122T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023943
CREATED:20131126T191916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131126T191916Z
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Karl: "Economics\, Culture\, and Historical Time: A 1930s Chinese Critique"
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Karl’s current work includes a forthcoming book entitled The Magic of Concepts: Philosophy and the Economic in Twentieth Century China; this book examines the intersections between philosophical and economic questions as they emerge and re-emerge over the course of China’s twentieth century. Ongoing work includes a project on histories of economic concepts in China tentatively entitled\, Worlds of Chinese Economic Thought. \nRebecca Karl is Professor of Chinese History at New York University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-rebecca-karl-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140122T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140122T153000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023943
CREATED:20131101T164100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131101T164100Z
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SUMMARY:Research Proposal Writing Workshop for Faculty and PIs
DESCRIPTION:Goal: Guide Humanities faculty on the processes and resources available when submitting a Humanities research proposal and post-award considerations \nPresenters: Irena Polić\, Cayla McEwen\, Anne Callahan\, Lisa Oman \nTo sign up for this session\, please RSVP to: annem@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/research-proposal-writing-workshop-for-faculty-and-pis-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140123T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140123T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023943
CREATED:20140110T203333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T203333Z
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Beth Lisick
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nWriter/Performer Beth Lisick is the author of five books: the memoir collection Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames\, the New York Times bestselling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool\, the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself\, the story collection This Too Can Be Yours\, and the performance poetry/story collection Monkey Girl. Since 1999 she has been collaborating with writer/comedian Tara Jepsen on stage and video projects. They have performed at Dixon Place\, UCB Theatre\, SF MOMA and screened their films at OUTfest\, Frameline\, and the Mix Film Festival of Sexual Diversity in Sao Paulo\, Brasil. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-2-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T151500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023943
CREATED:20140122T164315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140122T164315Z
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SUMMARY:Martin Devecka: "Some Ends of the City: Ruins and Utopia in the Ancient World"
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Mediterranean Studies: Ancient Comparative \nWhy do ruins happen? Are they caused by natural catastrophes\, invasions\, economic collapse\, state failure\, or by something else? This talk will address these questions from a new perspective\, integrating sociological comparison of ancient societies including Arabia\, Athens\, and Rome with analysis of ancient writings about ruins to suggest that literary fantasies about post-urban life may play as important a part in bringing about the destruction of cities as any of the causes conventionally invoked by historians. \nMartin Devecka is a Mellon Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University\, where he received his Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature in 2012. He has taught there and at Brown University on subjects ranging from Latin political thought to Greco-Roman zoology. His research interests include animals\, the history of technology\, and the cultures of the Red Sea.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-devecka-some-ends-of-the-city-ruins-and-utopia-in-the-ancient-world-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T173000
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CREATED:20130918T222309Z
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SUMMARY:Annie Gagliardi: "Grammar-parser tension in language acquisition: Evidence from Q'anjob'al relative clauses"
DESCRIPTION:Built into the grammatical architecture of any language we find constraints on possible structures. The processing system that uses these structures appears to have inherent preferences in how we interpret them. By looking at a domain where there exists tension between what constraint a learner might expect their language to conform to and the interpretations that are easier to arrive at\, we can learn more about what a learner’s own abilities and expectations contribute to language acquisition. In this talk we look at one case where grammatical constraints pull in the opposite direction of the preferences of the system using those constraints: A-bar extraction of transitive subjects. In particular\, we look at the comprehension of relative clauses by children and adults in Q’anjob’al\, Mayan language where extraction of ergative marked subjects is reportedly banned. Results of a comprehension experiment with adults and children suggest that this tension does affect language acquisition\, and may effect language change. \nAnnie Gagliardi is a Linguistics Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-annie-gagliardi-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T183000
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CREATED:20140109T165125Z
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SUMMARY:Gabriela Zapata: "Investigating the Connection between Learning and Assessment: Formative Assessment in Intermediate L2 Spanish Classes"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This paper investigates the connection between learning and assessment by examining the implementation of ACTFL’s Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in intermediate\, L2 Spanish classes. There were 880 students who participated in this classroom-based study. This presentation will discuss the following: 1) the theoretical and pedagogical bases of IPA; 2) the materials and tasks that were created; 3) the steps followed for its successful implementation; and 4) the results of a study on students’ and instructors’ perceptions of IPA and the relationship between classroom content and assessment. In addition\, we will compare the results of IPA-based assessment tools with those from previous\, more traditional evaluation tools. \nGabriela Zapata is Associate Professor and Director of Spanish and Portuguese Language Programs at the University of Southern California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gabriela-zapata-investigating-the-connection-between-learning-and-assessment-formative-assessment-in-intermediate-l2-spanish-classes-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023943
CREATED:20140116T185952Z
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SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: The House with Laughing Windows
DESCRIPTION:The House with Laughing Windows (1976\, dir. Pupi Avati) – a moody and masterful giallo (Italian thriller / mystery / slasher film)\nOne of the most remarkable (albeit atypical) examples of a giallo (Italian mystery-thriller-slasher film) out there\, Pupi Avati’s The House with Laughing Windows is a masterpiece of mood and ambient creepiness whose ability to stretch an atmosphere of queasy apprehension to the absolute breaking point over the course of a feature-length film is probably second only to Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now\, made just three years previously. A young art historian named Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) comes to a remote Italian village to restore some twentieth-century frescos that depict the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian in an old church. Some rumors suggest that the deceased artist of the works actually tortured and murdered his real-life models. Meanwhile\, Stefano’s efforts to restore the frescoes get sidetracked by all the locals who have secrets they want to share with him but cannot because they keep dying under mysterious circumstances before they can actually get down to the business of telling him much of anything. This is a movie whose tensions and uneasiness build and build and build . . . Not to be missed!\nMisfit Horror is a film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-1-26-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140127T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140127T183000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023943
CREATED:20140109T211833Z
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SUMMARY:Silvia Perpiñan: "Microparametric variation among Romance languages: the L2 acquisition of Spanish locative and existential constructions by Catalan and Italian speakers"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Selection of copula verbs in Spanish is a classic challenging area for L2 learners. Even so\, it has received moderate attention on SLA research\, and most of the studies have focused on the acquisition of the semantic and pragmatic distinctions between ser and estar\, particularly when combined with adjectives (Bruhn de Garavito & Valenzuela\, 2006; Geeslin\, 2002; 2003; Schmitt & Miller\, 2007; among others). The present study goes beyond the alternation between ser and estar + adjective by looking at the selection of copula verbs to express location\, and existentials. \nFollowing Freeze (1992)\, I assume a universal locative paradigm with three surface structures that imply the use of three different verbs in Spanish: estar for the predicate locative when the subject is an object (1)\, and ser when it is an event (2); the existential with haber (2); and the possessive or ‘have’ using tener. \nThree microparametric differences among Spanish\, Italian\, and Catalan are investigated\, which regulate (a) the distribution of ser vs. estar in locatives (the eventiveness effect\, which does not exist in Standard Catalan or Italian)\, (b) the distribution of haber vs. estar (the definiteness effect\, Milsark\, 1977\, which is only obeyed in Spanish)\, and (c) the use of clitics in locatives (Spanish does not have a locative clitic\, whereas in Catalan and Italian it is obligatory). Given these differences\, we question whether L2 speakers of Spanish are able to fully acquire the distribution of estar in locative predicates and observe the restriction on definite DPs in Spanish existential constructions. Furthermore\, we wonder how the bilingual mind will restructure her clitic system into a reduced morphological paradigm with no partitive or locative clitics. \nThe present study analyzes the expression of L2 Spanish existential and locative constructions in 20 native speakers of Catalan\, 34 native speakers of Italian (from Rome)\, and 20 monolingual Spanish speakers with two main tasks\, an Acceptability Judgment Task and an elicited oral production task. Results indicated that L2 learners used significantly less ester to express location than native speakers\, showing that this verb develops later than ser as previously reported for English (VanPatten\, 1985\, 1987)\, and as predicted by recent analyses of the copular ser/estar (Brucart\, 2012; Gallego & Uriagereka\, 2011). Nonetheless\, Italian speakers also overgeneralized estar to localize events\, and in existential constructions\, when ser or haber are required in Spanish. \nFinally\, Italian speakers of intermediate proficiency\, and some Catalan speakers continued using ser to localize objects. More interestingly\, both L2 groups accepted definite DPs in presentational sentences\, violating the definiteness effect\, displaying problems when assembling semantic features into specific lexical pieces. These results will be discussed within the debate on dissociation between acquisition of syntax and acquisition of semantics\, and the feature assembly or feature matching hypothesis (Lardiere\, 2008\, 2009; Slabakova\, 2009).\nSpeaker: Silvia Perpiñan is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Western Ontario.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/silvia-perpinan-microparametric-variation-among-romance-languages-the-l2-acquisition-of-spanish-locative-and-existential-constructions-by-catalan-and-italian-speakers-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140129T133000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023943
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SUMMARY:Mayanthi Fernando: "Improper Intimacies\, or the Cunning of Secularism"
DESCRIPTION:Mayanthi Fernando works on religion\, politics\, and the secular. Her first book on the Islamic revival and French secularity will be out in 2014. Her new project examines the nexus of sex\, religion\, and secularism\, and in particular the French state’s regulation of Muslim women’s sexual and religious intimacies. \nMayanthi Fernando is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-mayanthi-fernando-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140130T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140130T173000
DTSTAMP:20260426T023943
CREATED:20140115T233738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140115T233738Z
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SUMMARY:North French Hebrew Miscellany
DESCRIPTION:Come to Special Collections to look at and learn about a spectacular book recently acquired by Special Collections.\nUCSC Special Collections has recently acquired a facsimile of one of the world’s most important medieval Jewish manuscripts\, the North French Hebrew Miscellany. \nThe manuscript was written and lavishly illustrated in northern France in about 1280 at a time of upheaval for the Jews of Europe. Comprising almost 1500 pages with 84 different groups of texts\, this small volume served as a portable library. The texts include scripture\, daily prayers\, mahzor\, the Passover Haggadah\, religious poetry\, blessings\, calendars\, formularies for legal deeds and the earliest known copy of Isaac de Corbeil’s Sefer Mitsvot Katan\, composed in 1277. Three to five artists worked with the scribe to decorate and illuminate the manuscript\, most likely in or near Troyes. It is now housed in the British Library. \nPlease join us on  to welcome this wonderful addition to Special Collections – the facsimile will be on display and Professors Sharon Kinoshita and Gildas Hamel will share their expertise with us.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/north-french-hebrew-miscellany-cjs-2/
LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Rachel Swirsky and Sina Grace
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nFantasy Writer Rachel Swirsky has published over fifty short stories in venues including The New Haven Review\, Tor.com and Clarkesworld Magazine. Her speculative fiction has been nominated for most of the genre’s major awards\, including the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award\, and in 2010\, she won the Nebula Award for her novella “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window.” She holds a master’s degree in fiction from the Iowa Writing Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her second collection\, HOW THE WORLD BECAME QUIET: MYTHS OF THE PAST\, PRESENT AND FUTURE\, came out from Subterranean Press at the end of September. \nSina Grace is the author and illustrator of the indie mini-series Books with Pictures\, the neo-noirCedric Hollows in Dial M for Magic\, and the autobiographical one-shot\, Self-Obsessed. Not My Bag\, which recounts a story of retail hell\, is his new book from Image Comics. He lives in Los Angeles\, where he can be found in coffee shops working on his revenge video game-kickback\, Burn the Orphanage.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-3-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project
DESCRIPTION:The Nickelodeon Theatre will host “An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project” on Thursday January 30 in conjunction with the screening of “The Invisible Woman” film\, showing at 6:50 pm. The film\, which stars Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens\, is based on the Claire Tomalin book of the same title\, delves into the closely-held secret of Dickens’s love affair with the much-younger actress\, Ellen Ternan. During this period\, Dickens was also involved in a harrowing railway accident\, and nearly lost the manuscript to his novel\, Our Mutual Friend. The novel is the featured book for this summer’s Dickens Universe conference. \nDickens Project founders Murray Baumgarten and John Jordan will lead a discussion after the film\, joined by Jessica Kuskey and Nirshan Perera. The event is open to the public. Students will receive a special discount of $3 off the normal admission.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-the-ucsc-dickens-project-2/
LOCATION:Nickelodeon Theater\, 210 Lincoln Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Politics of the Digital: Poetry\, Technology\, and the University
DESCRIPTION:This two-day event includes a poetry reading and an interdisciplinary symposium featuring graduate students\, faculty\, and a keynote from Johanna Drucker. \nFriday\, January 31\, 2014: Poetry reading at 6 p.m. at the Felix Kulpa Gallery \nFeaturing Johanna Drucker with Eireene Nealand\, Margaret Rhee\, and Tsering Wangmo \nSaturday\, February 1\, 2014: Interdisciplinary symposium at Humanities 1\, room 210 \nPanel One: Textual and Visual Technologies—Pre-Histories of a Digital Era \nPanel Two: Digital Practice and Database Aesthetics \nPanel Three: Neoliberalism and the Digital Future \nKeynote from Johanna Drucker: Towards a New Humanism \nThe activities associated with the term “digital humanities” have gained much attention recently in academic and mainstream venues. But have core values of humanism been discounted as a result? Do the techniques of analytic processing or other engagements with large data displace or devalue those of more traditional method and even\, perhaps\, traffic in the worst kind of concessions to administered culture? Might these digital approaches be at odds with the tenets of humanistic inquiry? What are the ways out of a binaristic opposition between a retro-oriented\, possibly conservative\, defense of “the humanities” and a techno-digital approach that seems to some to dehumanize cultural materials by treating them as “data”? The answer might be in recovering the methods of humanism\, rather than just its objects. Engagement with the materiality of texts and artifacts crosses many disciplinary lines—from traditional critical studies\, bibliography\, and law to current studies of media archaeology\, new materialism\, and digital interpretation. This talk addresses ways in which the cultural authority of the humanities might be formulated as a new humanism whose methods and values extend traditional interpretative work while taking up some of the potential offered by data-driven and algorithm-based approaches to the study of human culture. \nReception at the Kresge Provost House \nMore info and full agenda available at http://www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com/upcoming-events.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/politics-of-the-digital-poetry-technology-and-the-university-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kathryn Pruitt: "Culminativity in Harmonic Serialism"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This talk considers the typology of word-headedness in languages with iterative stress and discusses a traditional classification of such systems—top-down vs. bottom-up (Hayes 1995)—in the context of Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy 2010). In some languages the primary stress is autonomous\, having properties that are different from those of its secondary stresses\, which has been used to argue against bottom-up metrification in serial theories (van der Hulst 1984\, 1997\, 2009\, Bailey 1995). Other languages\, however\, show a primary stress which is clearly parasitic on secondary stresses\, which follows straightforwardly from a bottom-up theory but is incompatible with a top-down one (Hayes 1995). To account for both autonomous and parasitic culminativity in Harmonic Serialism\, this talk outlines the following proposals: (1) primary stress assignment can and must happen simultaneously with foot-building\, in a basically top-down fashion\, and (2) the primary stress must be allowed to move to another foot in the course of a derivation. In other words\, the conclusion will be that attested patterns of primary stress assignment provide evidence for limited parallelism in stress\, even when general metrification\, and the grammar itself\, is otherwise serial. Allowing limited parallelism without giving up serialism altogether is also defended\, as the predicted typology of culminativity in a serial theory with limited parallelism is shown to be superior to that of theory with unrestricted parallelism. \nReferences \nBailey\, Todd Mark (1995). Non-metrical constraints on stress. Doctoral dissertation\, University of Minnesota. \nHayes\, Bruce (1995). Metrical stress theory: principles and case studies. University of Chicago Press\, Chicago. \nvan der Hulst\, Harry (1984). Syllable structure and stress in Dutch. Foris\, Dordrecht. \nvan der Hulst\, Harry (1997). Primary accent is non-metrical. Revista di Linguistica 9: 99–127. \nvan der Hulst\, Harry (2009). Brackets and grid marks\, or theories of primary accent and rhythm. In Eric Raimy and Charles E. Cairns (eds.)\, Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonological Theory\, pp. 225–245. MIT Press\, Cambridge\, MA. \nMcCarthy\, John J. (2010). An introduction to Harmonic Serialism. Language and Linguistics Compass 4(10): 1010–1018.\nKathryn Pruitt is at Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-kathryn-pruitt-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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