Events
Week of Events
Sunday, March 6, 2011
No events on this day.
Monday, March 7, 2011
No events on this day.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
- March 8, 2011 -Noel King Memorial Lecture: Jonathan Brown and Nathaniel Deutsch
- March 8, 2011 -Miguel Tamen: “Resistance and Interpretation”
Noel King Memorial Lecture: Jonathan Brown and Nathaniel Deutsch
Noel King Memorial Lecture Speakers: Jonathan Brown (Georgetown) and Nathaniel Deutsch (UCSC) Title: "Muslims, Jews, and Modernity: Religious, Cultural, and Intellectual Responses" Reception to Follow
Miguel Tamen: “Resistance and Interpretation”
Miguel Tamen specializes in philosophy and literature and Portuguese literature. His interests include the philosophy of language, interpretation, and moral philosophy, as well as aesthetics. He is Professor of Literary Theory and Chair of the Program in Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago […]
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
- March 9, 2011 -James Young: “Holocaust Memorials and the 9/11 New York Memorial”
- March 9, 2011 -Marcia Ochoa: “‘La moda nace en Paris y muere en Caracas’: Fashion, Beauty and Consumption on the (Trans) National”
James Young: “Holocaust Memorials and the 9/11 New York Memorial”
Professor James Young, Director of Jewish and Holocaust Studies at UMass Amherst, will speak Wednesday March 9 at UCSC. His talk will take place in Classroom Building Unit 2 from 8 -9:10 am as part of a class on the Holocaust and is open to the general public. Professor Young was the Chair of the […]
Marcia Ochoa: “‘La moda nace en Paris y muere en Caracas’: Fashion, Beauty and Consumption on the (Trans) National”
Professor Ochoa works at the conjuncture of the ethnography of media, modernity in Latin America, and queer/transgender studies. Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Misses and Mass Media in Venezuela (Duke, forthcoming) is a queer diasporic ethnography of femininity, spectacle, and nation in Venezuela. Marcia Ochoa is Assistant Professor of Community Studies at UCSC. Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies […]
Thursday, March 10, 2011
- March 10, 2011 -Living Writers Series: Graduate Student Readings
- March 10, 2011 -The Writing Program’s 2011 Reading Series
Living Writers Series: Graduate Student Readings
This week the Living Writers Series offers a selection of readings by UCSC Graduate Students, including Juliana Leslie, Tim Yamamura, Jake Thomas, Andrea Quaid, and Eireene Nealand. Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, the Literature Department, and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.
The Writing Program’s 2011 Reading Series
The Writing Program's 2011 Reading Series Please join us in welcoming two new voices to the Faculty Reading Series: Terry Terhaar will be reading non-fiction and Travis Mossetti will be reading poetry. A returning reader, Maureen Foster, will also be reading poetry. As we add new teachers to our faculty, it is a pleasure to […]
Friday, March 11, 2011
- March 11, 2011 -Norvin Richards: “Generalized Contiguity”
Norvin Richards: “Generalized Contiguity”
In Richards (2010) I posited a universal condition on the prosody of wh-questions, which was intended to predict whether a given language would move its wh-phrases or leave them in situ. The condition requires a wh-phrase to be in the same prosodic domain as the interrogative complementizer which Agrees with it. Whether a language has […]
Saturday, March 12, 2011
No events on this day.