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The House with Laughing Windows (1976, dir. Pupi Avati) - a moody and masterful giallo (Italian thriller / mystery / slasher film) One 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 […] |
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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, […] |
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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. Mayanthi Fernando is Assistant Professor of Anthropology […] |
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Come to Special Collections to look at and learn about a spectacular book recently acquired by Special Collections. UCSC Special Collections has recently acquired a facsimile of one of the world’s most important medieval Jewish manuscripts, the North French Hebrew Miscellany. The manuscript was written and lavishly illustrated in northern France in about 1280 at […]
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Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! Fantasy 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, […]
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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 […] |
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This two-day event includes a poetry reading and an interdisciplinary symposium featuring graduate students, faculty, and a keynote from Johanna Drucker. Friday, January 31, 2014: Poetry reading at 6 p.m. at the Felix Kulpa Gallery Featuring Johanna Drucker with Eireene Nealand, Margaret Rhee, and Tsering Wangmo Saturday, February 1, 2014: Interdisciplinary symposium at Humanities 1, […]
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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 […] | |
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Misfit Horror 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. February 2nd - Arrebato (1980, dir. Iván Zulueta) - think of it as a Spanish Videodrome, only avant la lettre For more information, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu |
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The talk is taken from Communal Luxury (forthcoming from Editions La fabrique). Ross discusses the political imaginary that fueled and outlived the Paris Commune of 1871, here considered within frames provided by contemporary militant concerns: the problem of refashioning an internationalist conjuncture; the future of education, labor and the status of art; the commune-form and […]
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The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents: Steven J. Zipperstein: "How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History" Kishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance when an event in Russian Jewish life received wide hearing. The riot, leaving 49 dead, in an obscure border town, dominated headlines in the western world […] |
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The Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists, writers, and scholars around questions of feminism, maternity, and creative process. It seeks to center questions of care in our research and art whether they are explicit sites of inspiration and study or simply important to the conditions in which we undertake […]
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Aristea Fotopoulou works at the intersections of media & cultural studies with science & technologies studies. She has written on digital networks and feminism, information politics, knowledge production, and digital engagement. She currently explores algorithmic living and practices of data sharing. Aristea Fotopoulou is Research Fellow, University of Sussex, UK and 2014 Visiting Scholar at the […] |
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Kathi Weeks is an Associate Professor in the Women’s Studies Program at Duke University. Her primary interests are in the fields of political theory, feminist theory, Marxist thought, the critical study of work, and utopian studies. She is the author of The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries (Duke UP, 2011) […]
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Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! Zoë Ruiz is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Her work was been published by The Weeklings, Salon, Two Serious Ladies, and elsewhere. Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of Stop That Girl, which was short-listed for the Story Prize, and a novel, MacGregor Tells the World. […] |
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Misfit Horror 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. February 9th - The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960, dir. Terence Fisher) - perhaps the sleaziest and most affecting adaptation of Stevenson's novella Sunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. […] |
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Michael Hannon was born in California in 1939. He has been writing and publishing poetry for 53 years. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies both here and abroad. Much of his work has been published by California’s leading book artists in limited editions. His thirty-year collaboration with the artist William T. Wiley has produced […]
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Gildas Hamel’s current work is on the economy, society and religion of ancient Israel and Graeco-Roman Judaea. His research focuses on taxes, forms of labor, the competition of various groups for resources and political power, and the evolution of religious structures, including the appearance of monotheism and new notions of time. Gildas Hamel is Senior […] |
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Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! Martha Mendoza is a Puliter Prize-winning Associated Press National Writer whose reports have won numerous awards and prompted Congressional hearings, Pentagon investigations and White House responses. She has reported for the AP since 1997, in Albuquerque, N.M., New York and Mexico […] |
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Misfit Horror 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. Relationships come and go, but plastination is forever! The only film hitherto written and directed by Robert Parigi, Love Object creepily tells the story of a love triangle […] |
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The Center for Jewish Studies with support from the Neufeld Levin Holocaust Chair Endowment presents: Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding" Dr. Hedwig C. Rose, education specialist and former Director of Education Studies at Wesleyan University, was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. After her father, his five brothers […] |
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Warren Sack is currently working on a book entitled “The Software Arts” (for the Software Studies series at MIT Press) where he explores an understanding of computer science as a liberal art and computer programming as a form of writing. Warren Sack is Professor of Film & Digital Media at UCSC. |
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Sharon Holland, Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill has been working on a book project entitled “Perishment,” a theoretical study that takes German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s notion that humans “die” while animals “perish,” and reads across the theoretical spectrum of works on the human/animal distinction in order to arrive at a fundamental question: what […]
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ABSTRACT: Berkeley holds that vision, in isolation, presents only color and light. He also claims that typical perceivers experience distance, figure, magnitude, and situation visually. The question posed in New Theory is how we perceive by sight spatial features that are not, strictly speaking, visible. Berkeley’s answer is “that the proper objects of vision constitute an […] |
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Video from this event will be posted soon. Please click here for updated media. For slavery studies, engagements with the geopolitical have robustly shifted the angles through which the field might begin to imagine collusions, collaborations and conversations with regions of the world. Historians, in particular, have contributed to our understanding of the forces at […] |
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Please join UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal for a special evening of conversation and connection. Featuring: Murray Baumgarten, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus of History Facilitated by Bill Ladusaw, UCSC Dean of Humanities Murray Baumgarten and Peter Kenez will discuss how teaching […] |
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Misfit Horror 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. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, dir. Siu-Tung Ching) is a remarkable high point of 80s Hong Kong cinema. Both an adaptation of a story by Pu Songling written during the Qing […] |
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A major success in Britain last Fall, “The Stuart Hall Project” is now being distributed in the USA. It will be screened at UCSC on Tuesday evening, February 25th. 7:30 PM, Studio C. (Communications 150) The film, 102 minutes, will be followed by an informal panel and general discussion animated by James Clifford (History of Consciousness), […] |
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s work focuses on medicine, science and media in the United States. He is currently finishing a book manuscript, tentatively titled What Matters: Autism, Neuroscience and the Politics of American Brains, on the alternative histories of American neuroscience, seen through the lens of extreme anti-social forms of autism. Matthew Wolf-Meyer is Associate Professor of Anthropology […]
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When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In […]
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O, learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit. The Provost of Porter College and the IHR Research Cluster, Shakespeare’s Disciplines, invite you to experience a phenomenal new translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets into American Sign Language. In addition to performing a selection of sonnets in ASL, […] |
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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” This lecture will present the results of current research at Sardis in western Turkey, the capital city of the Lydians and of their last king, Croesus. […]
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Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! Sesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 25 years. He's also taught writing at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the University of California, Santa […] |
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The Center for Jewish Studies presents: Mark A. Raider This talk surveys the long arc of the Zionist and Israeli hero as perceived in the American setting. Taking a page from scholars of semiotics and iconography, it pays close attention to a variety of texts, visual images, and cultural artifacts drawn from Zionist propaganda and recruitment […] |
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