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Please join us for another Leonardo Art and Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) March 31 in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108. There will be refreshments at 6:45 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by the conceptual artist/photographer Catherine Wagner, Mills College; documentary filmmaker Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, UCSC; composer, artist, and bio-acoustic reseacher David […]
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SESSION I 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Opening remarks / MC: Pranav Anand Judith Aissen: Bill Shipley: Founding linguist at UC Santa Cruz Amy Rose Deal: Possibilities in Nez Perce Maziar Toosarvandani: Creating Northern Paiute documentation for linguists and the language community Judith Aissen: Working among the Maya 12:30 – 1:00 pm Break SESSION […]
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"In Okinawa, the people of Takae village are convicted by the Japanese government for obstructing traffic in the struggle against the construction of new helipads. Their story embodies U.S. military strategy dating back to the Vietnam War, the blocking of gates to the Futenma base, and their town's rage against their state." Film will be […]
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One might argue that the creation of a computer reconstruction of a cultural heritage site requires a curious mix of academic training, detective work, and obsession. Unlike automated or algorithmic technologies that record extant sites and artifacts, building a three-dimensional computer model of an ephemeral or long-demolished environment combines traditional historical methods with new technologies […]
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Please join the Philosophy Department for a Works-in-Progress presentation by Professor Samantha Matherne. 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 […]
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Fierce Amazons are at the center of some of the most famous Greek myths. Every great hero, from Heracles to Achilles, tangled with warrior queens, and Theseus captured and married the Amazon Antiope. Were Amazons mere figments of the Greek imagination? Combining classical myth and art, nomad traditions, and scientific archaeology, this lecture reveals intimate, […]
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Neloufer de Mel is the author of Militarizing Sri Lanka and Women and the Nation’s Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Sri Lanka. Her current research is on cultures of justice in postwar Sri Lanka, disability performance, and the politics of aesthetic work in contexts of violence. Neloufer de Mel is a Professor of English […]
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This study explores the long-run effect of the 1981-1993 Punjab Insurgency on the educational attainment of adults who were between ages 6-16 years at the time of the insurgency. To examine the long-term effect of the insurgency on education, we use a large scale cross-sectional dataset - the 2005 India Human Development Survey. To explore […]
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Governor Jerry Brown's recent move to implement mandatory state-wide drought restrictions re-affirms growing uncertainties about California's water future. Images of dwindling rainfall and worsening drought often re-enforce popular perceptions of impending shortages as chiefly physical phenomena, restricting possibilities for robust and innovative responses through the social sphere. In the Central Coast, in particular, seemingly intractable […]
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Led by: Annette Marines and Rachel Deblinger Zotero is an open source (free) citation management software that allows you to attach PDFs, notes and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies. It lives in your browser and connects directly to library catalogues and research databases. This workshop will […]
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During the 19th century in Europe, new states were founded and nationalism and colonialism were strengthened; while some Empires disintegrated, others managed to maintain or even increase their power. At the same time, archaeology was transformed into a structured discipline and large-scale excavation projects commenced across the Mediterranean. The stories of the people behind the […]
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A Conference on the Work of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa -- poet, philosopher, and critical scholar -- founded, wrote, and encouraged a transformative body of writing and scholarship, with generative influences on critical race, feminist, queer, and decolonizing ways of knowing. Importantly for UCSC, Anzaldúa was a vital presence on our campus for […]
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The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. […]
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We propose a new semantics and pragmatics for epistemic statements which builds on the systems of Yalcin (2012) and Moss (2015), but offers several empirical advantages. The key improvements stem from (a) modeling information states using probabilistic graphical models, a framework for knowledge representation that is highly influential in psychology, AI, and philosophy; and (b) […]
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An evening with Italian composer, performer, and musicologist Luciano Chessa. Chessa will perform Piedigrotta (a Futurist musical poem). Chessa is the author of Luigi Russolo, Futurist: Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult (UC, 2012), the first English-language monograph dedicated to Russolo and the art of Noise. He has been performing futurist sound poetry for well […]
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Working at the intersection of religion, science, and feminist studies, Karen deVries examines structures of knowledge and power in the Contemporary American West. Her current book project deploys queer storytelling both to explore tensions and schisms between religious and secular knowledge formations and to produce more livable futures. Karen deVries is a Lecturer in the Political […]
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Join us for a conversation with Alice Ndlovu about the community-based research and indigenous innovations currently blossoming in Mazvihwa Communal Area, Zimbabwe. Alice will give us examples of creative farming practices, water harvesting techniques, and household innovations. We will discuss how participatory research is helping to fight data poverty and empowering the community. What does […]
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The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines […]
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The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. […]
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About eight times each year the department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. More information on the talk will be available soon. 2014 - 2015 Speakers FALL 2014 October 17th Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers December 12th Adam Albright, MIT WINTER 2015 January 16th Claire Halpert, University of Minnesota January 23rd Valentine Hacquard, […]
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An Interactive Panel Discussion and Presentation of Work for Faculty and Graduate Students in Jewish Studies Featuring Rachel Deblinger CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow and Digital Humanities Specialist, UC Santa Cruz Ari Y. Kelman Chair in Education and Jewish Studies, Stanford University Francesco Spagnolo Curator, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and Lecturer, Department of Music, […]
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Ernesto Chávez, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, El Paso, and Visiting Researcher at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, reads expressions of devout Catholicism and queer codes in the early- and mid-twentieth-century letters of silent screen actor, Ramón Novarro, and arts philanthropist Noël Sullivan. This free, public lecture takes place Tuesday, […]
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T.J. Demos’s current work explores the intersection of visual culture, art, environmental and indigenous activism, and the recent biocentric turn in law, particularly as it relates to political ecology in the Americas. His research accompanied the preparation for Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas, a 2015 exhibition he co-curated at Nottingham Contemporary […]
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The medical industry leans heavily upon a distinction between the “normal” and the "pathological.” Panelists Janette Dinishak (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UCSC) Kelly Ormond (Professor of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine) and Matthew Wolf-Meyer (Associate Professor of Anthropology, UCSC) will discuss how and why we continue to define this distinction, and for whom are these […]
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In this talk I will present the results of an experiment that investigates voice onset times (VOTs) to determine if cognates enhance the cross-°©‐language phonetic influences in the speech production of a range of Spanish–English bilinguals: Spanish heritage speakers, English heritage speakers, advanced L2 Spanish learners, and advanced L2 English learners. To answer this question, lexical items with considerable phonological, semantic, and orthographic overlap (cognates) and lexical items with no phonological overlap with their English translation equivalents (non-°©‐cognates) were examined. The results indicate that there is a significant effect of cognate status in the Spanish production of VOT by Spanish–English bilinguals. These bilinguals produced /t/ with longer VOT values (more English-°©‐like) in the Spanish production of cognates compared to non-°©‐cognate words. It is proposed that the exemplar model of lexical representation (Bybee, 2001; Pierrehumbert, 2001) can be extended to include bilingual lexical connections by which cognates facilitate phonetic interference in the bilingual mental lexicon.
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UC Santa Cruz is a place like no other. It was imagined from the minds of original thinkers—the rebels and visionaries, artists, scientists, and poets who had the courage to strike off on a different path. They were in search of ideas that question norms in hopes of making the world a better place. Now […]
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Twitter 101: A Hands-on Workshop Thursday, April 23 (12 – 1) at Graduate Student Commons It's impossible to ignore the word (and world of) Twitter. "Hashtag this" and "140-character that" is everywhere you go. You've probably seen people Live Tweeting at academic conferences and heard about a peer who saw exponential downloads on their latest […]
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The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines […]
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The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. […]
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The Graduate Research Symposium highlights the innovative research being conducted by graduate students in our thirty-eight programs across five academic divisions. It celebrates the scholarly, creative, social and commercial impact they make within California and around the world! In addition to graduate students presenting their research to a general audience, graduate alumni selected by the […]
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In order to celebrate our tradition of working and teaching across national, linguistic, and disciplinary divides, the UCSC Literature Department is pleased host 50 Years of Literature at UCSC, an event commemorating the achievement of Literature alumni and faculty. This special anniversary event will feature discussions with emeritus and current faculty, and UCSC alumni. It […]
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To commemorate UC Santa Cruz's 50th Anniversary, the Department of History has invited a few distinguished faculty emeriti and alumni to share stories about their experiences at UC Santa Cruz during its early years. This is a rare opportunity to hear the oral histories of the individuals who helped shape the future of our beloved […]
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Be a student again for an afternoon! Attend a lecture entitled "Feminism & Social Justice" from faculty professor of feminist studies Bettina Aptheker. Join fellow alums for a lively look at current movements in social justice and the ways in which gender, race, class, and sexuality interconnect with each other. From birth matters to thinking […]
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Brian Connolly is currently working on two book projects. The first, Sacred Kin: Sovereignty, Kinship, and Religion in the Nineteenth-Century United States, excavates the relationship between national sovereignty and religion. The second project, Against the Human, is a genealogy of the human as a category of emancipation. Brian Connolly is an Associate Professor of History at the […]
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Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie (Ph.D. Northwestern University, 2000) is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture of Global Africa at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist (University of Rochester Press, 2008: winner of the 2009 Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association for […]
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Wednesday, April 29 (5 – 7 PM) at FITC (McHenry 1350) Digital Humanities Working Group/Digital Pedagogy Co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Commons, Learning Technologies, and FITC Faculty from across the university will offer lightning talks about new assignments and classroom strategies that integrate technologies into their pedagogy. Join the Digital Pedagogy group for a broad introduction […]
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Abstract: In recent years, political philosophers have begun to interrogate the methodology they use to construct normative principles. Some have voiced the concern that prevailing liberal egalitarian principles are constructed under idealized assumptions and thus are ill-suited to real-world circumstances where such assumptions do not apply. Specifically, critics have raised three related objections to so-called […]
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The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines […]
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Featuring papers by: James Beneda, Whitney DeVos, Ariane Helou, Katie Lally, Kenan Sharpe, Eric Sneathen, & Melissa Yinger Roundtable conversations from: Christopher Chen, Kendra Dority, Johanna Isaacson, Kyle Lane-McKinley, Brian Malone, Tsering Wangmo, Tim Willcutts, & others. Symposium at UCSC 9:30 a.m.: Breakfast 10:00 a.m.: Welcome & Opening Remarks 10:15 a.m.: Panel 1 […]
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The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. […]
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Grant Goodall: "Grammar and working memory: How experimental syntax can help us tell the difference" The use of formal experiments to measure sentence acceptability, known as “experimental syntax”, is able to capture many fine-grained grammatical contrasts, but it also captures effects that have long been thought to be extra-grammatical, such as those induced by increased […]
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Author Michelle Alexander helped initiate a national movement with her best selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. This month, Santa Cruz Public Libraries sponsors Book-to-Action, a month-long series of events fostering community dialog and civic engagement. Event Dates and Information: Friday April 3 | 6:30pm | Prison USA Resource Center for Nonviolence | 612 […]
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