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SUMMARY:Guriqbal Singh Sahota: "Resemblances of Pure Content"
DESCRIPTION: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 Sikh tradition from the 16th through the 20th century. The first installment of this project will appear as “Guru Nanak and Rational Civil Theology” in Sikh Formations (2011). \nSponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/guriqbal-singh-sahota-resemblances-of-pure-content-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:Rethinking Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Three decades of advances in financial economics have transformed global markets. As a matter of theory\, the valuing of options (financial products) became increasingly central to understanding the market in any commodity; as a matter of politics questions about the direction and sustainability of the market system were supplanted by questions about its volatility—how to manage the uncertainty that it creates. The Crisis of 2008 illustrates the need to better understand what is new\, and what is not\, about conceiving of capitalism as a whole in this way. 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. Panel topics include: \n1) Eschatology\, Visualization and Scenario Planning\n2) Market Institutions\, Government and Crisis\n3) Affective\, Spatial and Material Flows of Value\n4) Social Risk\, Human Capital and Financializing Inequality\n5) Critique\, Confession and Conversion in the Aftermath of 2008.  \nPlease visit http://rethinkingcapitalism.ucsc.edu for more information.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/re-thinking-capitalism-ii-2/
LOCATION:University Center\, UCSC\, College Nine and College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Chang-Rae Lee
DESCRIPTION: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 Asian-American Literary Award. Lee was recently selected by The New Yorker as one of the Twenty Best Writers Under Forty. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, and numerous anthologies. \nEach quarter\, the Living Writers Reading Series brings visiting authors and poets to UC Santa Cruz to give students an in-depth look into the world of the working writer.  Sponsored by Oakes College and the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-series-chang-rae-lee-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Maria Gouskova: "Vug\, vg-a: An Experimental Investigation of Russian Yer Deletion"
DESCRIPTION:Russian has a well-known rule called yer deletion: stem mid vowels are deleted when a vowel-initial suffix follows (as in [rov] `ditch (nom sg)’ vs. [rv-a] (gen sg)). The rule is lexically idiosyncratic: most mid vowels in identical contexts do not alternate (as in [rʲov] `howl (nom sg)’ vs. [rʲov-a] (gen sg)). There are two types of approaches to such alternations. I will advocate a theory in which entire morphemes are labeled in the lexicon as subject to this alternation\, and the phonological grammar is responsible for deriving generalizations about where deletion is possible or blocked (Gouskova to appear\, cf. Yearley 1995). A much better known alternative theory holds that the alternating vowels must be labeled on a segment-by-segment basis\, and that the conditioning environment for deletion is opaque: yers are realized when followed by abstract yers in the UR but delete otherwise (Lightner 1972\, Pesetsky 1979\, Kenstowicz and Rubach 1987\, Halle and Matushansky 2006). These theories make different predictions for how speakers might extend the alternation to novel forms. The goal of this talk is to demonstrate that speakers are aware of the phonological generalizations that govern the alternations. \nEven though vowel-zero alternations in Russian are lexically idiosyncratic\, the identity of alternating vowels is partially predictable: only mid vowels can alternate\, and there are certain phonological contexts where alternations are predictably blocked. This talk reports on two experiments that asked Russian speakers to rate pairs of inflected words in which a vowel was deleted. The results show that the rating strongly correlates with the quality of the vowel: deletion of mid vowels (as in [xel] and [xl-a]) was rated higher than deletion of high and low vowels (e.g.\, [gil] and [gl-a] or [ʃap] and [ʃp-a]). An experiment also tested context effects: deletion that creates a medial CCC cluster that violates sonority sequencing\, deletion of vowels in different stress contexts\, and deletion in CVCC stems. These results suggest that speakers have a grammar even for this non-productive and lexically limited alternation. \nThis talk is presented as part of the Linguistics Colloquium Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/maria-gouskova-vug-vg-a-an-experimental-investigation-of-russian-yer-deletion-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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