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SUMMARY:Eve Zyzik: "Authentic texts\, vocabulary load\, and focus-on-form in foreign language teaching"
DESCRIPTION:This talk will present a practical overview of the use of authentic texts for language learning purposes within the context of contemporary second language acquisition (SLA) research. Some of the questions that will be addressed during this talk include: \n\n\nWhat are the benefits and potential difficulties of authentic texts vis-à-vis graded readers?\nWhat are the advantages of extensive reading over intensive reading?\nHow much vocabulary do you need to know in order to read in a foreign language?\nHow much vocabulary can you “pick up” through reading?\nCan authentic texts be used to teach structural features of the language?\nHow can we get students to enjoy reading in a foreign language?\n\nEve Zyzik is an Assistant Professor in the Spanish Language Program at UCSC. Her talk is presented as part of the Language Program’s Colloquium Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eve-zyzik-authentic-texts-vocabulary-load-and-focus-on-form-in-foreign-language-teaching-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110301T140000
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SUMMARY:Jael Silliman: "Jewish Portraits\, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope"
DESCRIPTION:In the nineteenth and twentieth centures the Baghdadi Jewish diaspora stretched from Basra to Shanghai\, with Calcutta acting as an important trading center on that route. During that time Calcutta was home to a thriving Jewish community that played an important role in the City’s mercantile development. After India’s Independence\, 1947\, the community relocated mostly to the Western world. Dr. Silliman\, who is a member of that community\, will talk about the material\, religious and cultural life of the community\, and trace the history of this diaspora community through the lives of four generations of women in her family. She will challenge many conventional notions of what it means to live in diaspora\, reframe the role that women played in this traveling community\, and highlights the ways in which their fluid identities enabled this economically successfull Jewish community to negotiate both colonialism and nationalism to advance their own interests. \nJael Silliman now resides in Calcutta\, India. She is an independent Consultant\, serves on the Board of Breakthrough for Human Rights\, and the Indian Holdeen Fund. She is writing a book of short stories. \nPrior to returning to India\, Jael served as the Program Officer for Women’s Rights & Gender Equity in the Human Rights Unit\, Peace and Social Justice Program of the Ford Foundation. Immediately before that\, she was the Program Officer for Reproductive Rights. Prior to joining the Ford Foundation she had been a tenured Associate Professor in the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Iowa. \nJael is the recipient of the Iowa City Human Rights Commission International Human Rights Award and an Open Society Fellow. She is the author of numerous books and articles. Her most recent co-authored book\, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice\, received a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award in the area of bigotry and human rights. She is also the author of Jewish Portraits\, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from A Diaspora of Hope\, and co-editor of Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population\, Environment and Policing the National Body: Race\, Gender and Criminalization.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jael-silliman-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:20110302T121500
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SUMMARY:Maria Frangos: “Queer Morphologies”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Frangos’s “Queer Morphologies” explores metamorphosis and non-human embodiment in literature from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance as sites of queer possibility and potentiality. The project asks how human/animal metamorphoses surface and resurface to produce and negotiate nonnormative configurations of sexuality\, gender\, and kinship. \nProfessor Frangos is Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC. \nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maria-frangos-queer-morphologies-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:20110303T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110303T153000
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SUMMARY:Ned Blackhawk: "The Indigenous West of Mark Twain: Samuel Clemens and American Empire\, 1861-1866"
DESCRIPTION:Building upon the last sections of his first book\, Violence over the Land\, in this presentation Ned Blackhawk reevaluates the American West’s most famous if often under-recognized author\, Samuel Clemens\, whose more famous pseudonym\, Mark Twain\, was first deployed in 1863 in Virginia City\, Nevada’s Territorial Enterprise. This presentation considers the place of indigenous peoples—specifically Goshute Shoshones and Native Hawaiians—in Clemens’ early writings and identifies longstanding uncertainties about the place of non-Anglophone and indigenous peoples in Twain’s authorship.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ned-blackhawk-the-indigenous-west-of-mark-twain-samuel-clemens-and-american-empire-1861-1866-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Julie Drucker: "The Jewish Community in Venezuela: Walking the Tightrope of the New Anti-Semitism?"
DESCRIPTION:For the first time in its history\, the Jewish community in Venezuela has found itself facing a consistent\, 10-year barrage of anti-Israel\, anti-Jewish statements from President Chavez’s administration and his pro-government media.  Recent events in Israel\, such as the 2006 war in Lebanon\, the 2009 Gaza incursion\, and the Flotilla event in 2010\, have triggered hostile government-led reactions in Venezuela\, keeping the local community on edge. How different is this from Jews’ previous experience in Venezuela? How has the community responded? Is the community under threat? \nDrawing from current interviews of community leaders and lay people\, we will explore these questions to attempt to understand the unfolding of a top-down\, new approach to Jews in Venezuela. \nJulie Drucker was born in England and raised in Caracas\, Venezuela\, where she spent 24 years.  She grew up in a trilingual environment\, and has earned a BA and Masters degree Summa Cum Laude from UCLA in Latin American Studies\, with emphasis on Political Science. \nAt present\, Julie works as a certified simultaneous interpreter for the Criminal Courts in Los Angeles and free-lances as a translator for a variety of institutions and artists in the private and public sectors.  Ms. Drucker is a contributing writer to the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and has been closely monitoring the Jewish community in Venezuela for the past 10 years. \nJulie Drucker’s talk is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies with generous support by the David B. Gold Foundation.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julie-drucker-the-jewish-community-in-venezuela-walking-the-tightrope-of-the-new-anti-semitism-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: Sesshu Foster and Rob Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Sesshu Foster taught composition and literature in East L.A. and writing at the University of Iowa\, the California Institute for the Arts\,  and UC Santa Cruz. He has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry\, Asia and Beyond\, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. His works\, Atomik Aztex and World Ball Notebook won a 2006 Believer Magazine Annual Book Prize and the 2010 American Book Award. \n \nRob Wilson has published poems in various journals from Tinfish\, Taxi\, Manoa\, and Central Park\, to The New Republic\, Ploughshares\, Partisan Review and Poetry\, and in a book called Waking In Seoul.  His study Be Always Converting\, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2009.  A new work Beat Attitudes:  On the Roads to Beatitude for Post-Beat Writers\, Dharma Bums\, and Cultural-Political Activists is just out with New Pacific Press. \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-sesshu-foster-and-rob-wilson-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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