Events
Week of Events
Rethinking Capitalism
This conference brings theories of economic value and regulation into conversation with the study of culture, institutions, ethics, history, geography and theology. Its aim is to consider in what ways capitalism is producing a future that is unlike its past.
Guriqbal Singh Sahota: “Resemblances of Pure Content”
Professor Sahota will join the Literature department as an Assistant Professor in 2011. He is finishing Late Colonial Sublime (UC, 2012). His research addresses conflicts of dogmatic and speculative belief cultures in contemporary global society with a special focus on the postcolonial. He has begun a long-term project on the question of reason in the […]
Living Writers Series: Chang-Rae Lee
Chang-Rae Lee's first two novels, Native Speaker and A Gesture Life, have between them won a host of literary honors, including the Hemingway/PEN Award for first fiction, QPB’s New Voices Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, the Oregon Book Award, and the […]
Maria Gouskova: “Vug, vg-a: An Experimental Investigation of Russian Yer Deletion”
Russian has a well-known rule called yer deletion: stem mid vowels are deleted when a vowel-initial suffix follows (as in `ditch (nom sg)' vs. (gen sg)). The rule is lexically idiosyncratic: most mid vowels in identical contexts do not alternate (as in `howl (nom sg)' vs. (gen sg)). There are two types of approaches to […]