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We will begin the academic year at Santa Cruz with a workshop centered on issues at the interface between syntax and information structure. The workshop will feature four talks. 10:00-10:10 AM - Opening Remarks 10:10-11:10 AM - Bern Samko (Santa Cruz): Verum Focus and Scalar Emphasis in English VP-Preposing 11:10-11:30 AM - Break 11:30-12:30 […]
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UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. […]
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Ariel Gore is the editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of eight books. Her latest, The End of Eve, chronicles her years spent caring for her dying mother. The memoir has been called “Terms of Endearment meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” She’s also edited half a dozen anthologies, including […]
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Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
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Master Memoir Workshop with Ariel Gore for faculty and graduate students. Participants will read Gore's short memoir, Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver and bring 2-3 pages of their own autobiographical material to workshop. Space is limited. Contact Micah Perks meperks@ucsc.edu to RSVP. Sponsored by the IHR Complicated Labor Research Cluster.
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries presents an author visit and discussion with best selling author, Karl Marlantes. As a Marine lieutenant during the Vietnam War, Karl Marlantes learned what every young officer learns – to fire a rifle, to command a platoon, to fight and to kill. Over the next four decades, he spent his time […]
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UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. […]
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BALI SAHOTA Assistant Professor of Literature, UCSC G.S. Sahota is currently completing two books, Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism and The Name of Reason: Sikhism, Secularism, Modernism. Fall 2014 Colloquium Series: October 15: Bali Sahota October 22: Vilashini Cooppan October 29: Nirvikar Singh November 5: Juned Shaikh November 12: Dean […]
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This lecture casts the history of liberal modernity as a complex, braided project, which includes at once the universal promises of rights, emancipation, wage labor and free trade, as well as the global divisions and colonial asymmetries upon which those promises depend, and according to which such liberties are reserved for some and denied to […] |
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Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
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Poetry & Politics Presents: Margaret Ronda, featuring Whitney DeVos and Keegan Cook Finberg This talk offers an extended reading of the work of rural Midwestern modernist poet Lorine Niedecker, whose poetry attends to various forms and speeds of what she calls “human material obsolescing.” The imaginative tarrying with these “outdated remains” (in Benjamin’s phrase) offers […]
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The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Jane Grimshaw of Rutgers University speaking on The use of force in clausal complementation. Abstract: The SAY-schema verbs (Grimshaw in press) combine with a wide range of clauses in complex complementation structures, including quoted and non-quoted clauses in post-verbal complement position, and quoted and non-quoted clauses hosting […]
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Thirty years ago saw the culmination of increasing social conflict in Punjab, a Sikh-majority state in India. In 1984, the government of India launched a military operation on the Sikhs' central religious site, aimed at militants but also ensnaring innocent pilgrims. Later that year, Sikh bodyguards assassinated India's Prime Minister in retribution. This was followed […]
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UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. […]
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VILASHINI COOPPAN Assistant Professor of Literature, UCSC Vilashini Cooppan is the author of Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing, published by Stanford University Press in 2009. Her most recent scholarship engages postcolonial studies, race and ethnicity, and comparative and world literature. Fall 2014 Colloquium Series: October 15: Bali Sahota October 22: […]
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Learn from the experts! Faculty and graduate students who have recently won grants and fellowships discuss the application process and share their tips for a successful application. This roundtable discussion takes place Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 4:00-6:00pm, in the Charles E. Merrill Lounge. Reservations are recommended, but not necessary. Featured Speakers: Sylvanna Falcón, Assistant Professor, […]
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Please join the Digital Humanities Research Cluster and the University Library for a series of interactive lectures focused on "Digital Humanities & Cultural Heritage." This inaugural speaker series will highlight digital projects from across the humanities and enable lively discussion about the role of the digital in preserving, building, and making accessible cultural materials from […]
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Richard T. Rodríguez is Associate Professor of English and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is also affiliated with the Department of Gender and Women's Studies and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He received his B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in the […]
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Andrew Lam is the author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, which won the 2006 PEN Open Book Award, and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. Lam is an editor and cofounder of New America Media, an association of over three thousand ethnic media outlets in America. He was a regular commentator on NPR’s All […]
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Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
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Humanities Division and Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Presents: Toni Morrison: "LITERATURE AND THE SILENCE OF GOODNESS" at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz Tickets: $12 Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison $145 Founders Celebration Dinner and Baskin Ethics Lecture with Toni Morrison (combo ticket) *If you were not able to get tickets […]
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Save the date for the eighth annual UC Santa Cruz Founders Celebration dinner, honoring extraordinary individuals and their outstanding contributions to society. This year's honorees include Toni Morrison, novelist, editor, and professor; The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation, long-time advocate and supporter of the Santa Cruz community; Mark Headley, board chairman of Matthews International Capital […]
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Don Rothman began teaching undergraduate writing classes at UC Santa Cruz in 1973. After more than three decades of guiding teachers and teaching college students, the senior lecturer emeritus in writing--and recipient of the 2002 Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCSC Center for Teaching Excellence--has established an endowment to honor exceptional freshman students and their […]
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UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. […]
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UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to the first LASER of the academic year Tuesday, October 28! Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 […]
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The bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran will discuss and sign copies of her new book, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books—a hymn to the power of fiction to change lives. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of […]
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NIRVIKAR SINGH Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics, UCSC Professor Singh explores how Sikh Studies in the North American academy is engaging with intellectual currents that can broadly be termed "post-modern." More specifically, he critiques the asymmetrical privileging of Western ‘post-modern’ scholarship on Sikhs against the Sikh community’s […]
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Let's talk digital. Are you unsure what Digital Humanities means? Are you interested in mapping, databases, blogs, or twitter, but don't know how they help your work? Are you skeptical, but curious? Come join an open, informal, and frank talk about the Digital Humanities. Rachel Deblinger, the new Digital Humanities Specialist, will offer a brief […]
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The Latin American & Latino Studies Distinguished Speaker Series is proud to present Arlene Davila to begin the 2014-15 year. Davila uses ethnographic and transnational perspectives to theorize the intersections of culture and neoliberalism across the Americas. More information on the speaker and the rest of the LALS Distinguished Speaker Series will be available […]
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In this talk, I draw on elements of discourse analysis and information structure–specifically topic-marking–to address a long-standing problem in the syntax of Old Occitan, a medieval Romance language spoken in what is now the south of France. In Old Occitan, the position of object and adverbial clitic (weak, atonic) pronouns remains incompletely understood (Wanner 2010). […]
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Tobias Wolff is the author of the novels The Barracks Thief and Old School, the memoirs This Boy’s Life andIn Pharaoh’s Army, and the short story collections In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Back in the World, and The Night in Question. His most recent collection of short stories, Our Story Begins, won The Story Prize for 2008. Other honors include the […]
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Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
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