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SUMMARY:John Jordan: “Voice and Temporality in the Illustrations to Bleak House”
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on the narratological theories of Genette (“voice”) and Mieke Bal (“focalization”)\, Professor Jordan’s talk offers a new approach to understanding the illustrations to Dickens’s Bleak House (1852- 53) that emphasizes elements of retrospection\, fantasy\, and multiple temporality. \nJohn Jordan is Professor of Literature\, UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/john-jordan-voice-and-temporality-in-the-illustrations-to-bleak-house-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:20110216T170000
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SUMMARY:Enrico Deaglio: "Reporting Italy"
DESCRIPTION:Full of mysteries\, theatrical effects\, unexpected violence and unexpected compromises\, recent Italian history is probably difficult to understand\, but surely is not boring. It was 32 years ago when Aldo Moro\, the most prominent Italian politician\, was killed by the Red Brigades in the center of Rome\, after a kidnapping that lasted 55 days. Thirty two years later\, if you look for the truth behind that kidnapping/homicide\, you won’t find it: that story is suspended\, forgotten… Italy is really a country you wouldn’t have imagined. \nEnrico Deaglio is a writer who has worked in journalism\, television\, and publishing for over 30 years. In 1996 he founded the political weekly Diario that he directed until 2008. He has written numerous books including La banalità del bene\, Storia di Giorgio Perlasca and Raccolto Rosso. He co-created several investigative films: Quando c’era Silvio (2006)\, Uccidete la democrazia (2006)\, Gli imbroglioni (2007)\, and Fare un golpe e farla franca (2008). His most recent book is Patria (2010)\, covering Italian politics from 1978-2010. \nHosted by the Language Program and Italian Studies
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/enrico-deaglio-reporting-italy-2/
LOCATION:College 8\, Room 240\,  College Eight 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110216T170000
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SUMMARY:The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies: Robert Alter
DESCRIPTION:Every year\, we honor Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC-Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture on campus by an internationally recognized scholar.  This year’s lecture will be presented by Dr. Robert Alter\, and is entitled “Translating the Bible: The Wisdom Books.”  The lecture will take place on Wednesday\, February 16th from 5-7 pm and will be followed by a reception. \nRobert Alter is Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley\, where he has taught since 1967.   He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the American Philosophical Society\, the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress\, and is past president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.   He has twice been a Guggenheim Fellow\, has been a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities\, a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem\, and Old Dominion Fellow at Princeton University.  He has written widely on the European novel from the eighteenth century to the present\, on contemporary American fiction\, and on modern Hebrew literature.   He has also written extensively on literary aspects of the Bible.  His twenty-four published books include two prize-winning volumes on biblical narrative and poetry and award-winning translations of Genesis and of the Five Books of Moses.  He has devoted book-length studies to Fielding\, Stendhal\, and the self-reflexive tradition in the novel. Books by him have been translated into eight different languages.   Among his publications over the past nineteen years are Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka\, Benjamin\, and Scholem (1991)\, The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel  (1999)\,  Canon and Creativity: Modern Writing and the Authority of Scripture (2000)\, The Five Book of Moses: A Translation with Commentary (2004)\, Imagined Cites  (2005)\,  The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (2007)\, Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible (2010)\, and The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary (2010).   In 2009 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for lifetime contribution to American letters.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-helen-diller-distinguished-lecture-in-jewish-studies-robert-alter-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:Amy Rose Deal: "Case and Caselessness in Nez Perce"
DESCRIPTION:Morphological case systems are frequently described in terms of distinctions related to transitivity. To a first approximation\, the case system of Nez Perce nicely fits this bill: one case (ergative) marks transitive subjects\, a distinct case (objective) marks transitive objects\, and intransitive subjects remain in an unmarked (nominative) form. \n\n\n\n(1)\nTransitive: ERG subject\, OBJ object\n\n\n\nCaan-nim\npaa-‘yaX-n-a\n‘inii-ne\n\n\n\nJohn-ERG\n3/3-find-P-REM.PAST\nhouse-OBJ\n\n\n\nJohn found a house.\n\n\n(2)\nIntransitive: NOM subject\n\n\n\nSue\nhi-pay-n-a\n\n\n\nSue\n3SUBJ-arrive-P-REM.PAST\n\n\n\nSue arrived.\n\n\n\nHowever\, Nez Perce also shows us a series of circumstances in which the correlation between transitivity and case-marking breaks down. All transitive verbs allow both the case pattern in (1) (ERG subject\, OBJ object) and the “caseless” version in (3) (NOM subject\, NOM object). Both versions appear to be semantically and syntactically transitive; yet in the caseless version (3)\, the characteristic subject and object cases of the transitive pattern have disappeared. \n\n\n\n(3)\nCaseless transitive: NOM subject\, NOM object\n\n\n\nCaan\nhi-‘yaaX-n-a\n‘iniit\n\n\n\n\nJohn\n3SUBJ-find-P-REM.PAST\nhouse\n\n\n\nJohn found a house.\n\n\n\nWhat controls the choice of case in transitive clauses? I argue that the deciding factor lies in the grammar of object agreement: all and only clauses with successful object agreement show the ergative and objective case. This finding calls for a theory of morphological case which accords a crucial role not to transitivity itself but to the syntax and morphology of agreement. I propose a version of this view according to which case-markers are morphological realizations of agreement features. If this sort of view can be maintained\, case and agreement systems can be handled by grammatical theories which remain relatively featurally sparse. Language does not include related features for case and agreement; these are the same features appearing in distinct morphological environments. \nAmy Rose Deal (Harvard) will give this job talk as a candidate for the Linguistics department’s Syntax faculty position.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amy-rose-deal-case-and-caselessness-in-nez-perce-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:20110217T160000
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SUMMARY:Kaija Mortensen:"Thought Experiment Intuitions: Rational or Animal?"
DESCRIPTION:This talk is presented as part of the Philosophy Graduate Student Works in Progress series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kaija-mortensenthought-experiment-intuitions-rational-or-animal-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cameron McNeil: "The Chocolate Tree and Its History among the Ancient Maya"
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will explore the use of the chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao L.) in Mesoamerican communities with a focus on the ancient Maya polity of Copan in Honduras. While the areas where cacao thrived in Mesoamerica were limited\, the seeds were easily transportable and became a valued source of stimulants. By 1900 B.C. cacao was used in feasting rituals as evidenced by chemical residue analysis of vessels from Paso de la Amada\, Mexico. For the pre-Columbian people T. cacao came to be associated with markers of life passage events (such as birth\, marriage\, and death)\, was linked to rulership and power\, and was used as a medium of exchange. Where the cacao grew well\, it was one of several important tree crops which undoubtedly aided populations in preserving forest cover while providing an esteemed comestible and trade good. Today\, traditional cacao consumption and production has been lost in many areas\, and where it remains it is on the wane for both positive and negative reasons.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cameron-mcneil-the-chocolate-tree-and-its-history-among-the-ancient-maya-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:Living Writers Series: Dion Farquhar and Gary Young
DESCRIPTION:Dion Farquhar is a poet and fiction writer with recent poems in The Southeast Review\, Shampoo\, and/or\, Dark Sky Magazine\, etc. Her chapbook\, Cleaving\, won first prize at Poets Corner Press in 2007\, and her first poetry book was published in November by Evening Street Press.  She works as a Lecturer of literature and creative writing at UC Santa Cruz and teaches writing at San Jose City College. \n \nGary Young is a poet and artist whose honors include the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of American and a Pushcart Prize. His book of poems\, The Dream of a Moral Life\, won the James D. Phelan Award. He is the co-editor of The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place\, and Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition books and broadsides\, which are represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Alberta Museum\, and The Getty Center for the Arts. \nCo-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program\, the Literature Department\, and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-dion-farquhar-and-gary-young-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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