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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, immediately followed by […]
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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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TERRY BURKE Research Professor of History, UCSC Alone among Muslim countries, Morocco is known for its own national form of Islam, “Moroccan Islam.” In his most recent book The Ethnographic State, Professor Burke argues that Moroccan Islam was actually invented in the early twentieth century by French ethnographers and colonial officers influenced by British colonial […]
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Interested in working in tech but currently pursuing a degree outside the hard sciences? Come hear from a panel of Facebook content strategists who work in the field of user experience design. They'll share information about: • The content strategy profession • How their career paths have taken shape • Pursuing careers in tech with […]
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Visual & Media Cultures Colloquia talk, the first one of the 2014-15 season, on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 4 pm in Porter D245: "Seeing is Not Believing: Colonialist Visuality, Inka Masonry, and the Challenge of Aniconism," featuring Carolyn Dean. Carolyn Dean is a Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa […] |
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Katie Crouch is a New York Times bestselling novelist and essayist. Her books include Girls in Trucks, Men and Dogs, and Abroad. She has also written two novels for young adults, and has contributed to The London Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Slate, Salon and Glamour. She has a regular column on The Rumpus called […]
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Join the Digital Humanities Research Cluster for an informal cocktail hour. The first of a series of casual get togethers will start with the question, "Why the Digital Humanities?" Meet other scholars doing digital work and contribute to a conversation that will help shape what digital scholarship looks like at UC Santa Cruz. Open to all faculty, […]
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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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It is now well accepted in foreign language pedagogy that assessment is not solely an end-‐of-‐unit activity. Rather, it is important for teachers to monitor learners’ language development using a variety of techniques throughout the course of a unit of study. Among the many skills to be assessed in foreign language classrooms, speaking presents unique […]
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The subject of this lecture comes from the recent experience of the Occupy movement against financial capitalism. It investigates the political and conceptual limits of these movements, and their inability to put an end to the financial aggression. Focusing on the main actors of the Occupy process – the precarious cognitive workers, embodying the Marx's […]
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Franco "Bifo" Berardi will be leading a seminar discussion based on "Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization," an excerpt from his forthcoming book And – Phenomenology of the End. Participants are invited to read the text and join the discussion. The text can be downloaded at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ax682ecxgn4jtzi/Franco%20Berardi%2C%20Aesthetic%20Genealogy%20of%20Globalization.pdf?dl=0. This seminar is part of the series “What Is […]
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At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. Coffee, tea, and […]
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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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As with most linguistic input, the data that children receive about phonological patterns is rife with ambiguity. For example, children hearing voicing alternations in German ( ~ ‘thief-sg./pl.’, ~ ‘mouse-sg./pl.’) receive no evidence as to whether a single final devoicing process affects all word-final obstruents, or just the subset of obstruents that German happens to […]
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Lawrence Weschler and William Finnegan both graduated from Cowell College, UCSC, in 1974. Both worked at The New Yorker, where Finnegan still works. Both studied here at UCSC with Harry Berger. And all three – Weschler, Finnegan, and Berger – are public intellectuals known for their humor and incisiveness and also for the zany connections […]
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