Events

Join us on May 1, 2011, (10am to 4pm) in celebrating writing at UCSC. As part of UCSC’s Day By The Bay celebrations, Humanities is hosting a selection of alumni writers - novelists, journalists, and screenwriters—coming together for a community event to focus on the joys and challenges of writing as a living, the business […]

Many modern problems involve computer simulations of physical or social processes. The field of statistics provides a range of tools to help with the design, analysis, and use of computer simulators. This talk will give an overview of these problems and the statistical perspective, with applications ranging from rocket science to hydrology to health care […]

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Jacob Metcalf, Science and Social Justice Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSC "Meet Shmeat: Animal Biotechnologies and the Philosophical Tensions of the New Foods Movements" Doctor Metcalf is the Postdoctoral Fellow in an NSF-funded program training graduate students in interdisciplinary inquiry on the co-constitution of ethics and scientific knowledge. His […]

Regine Basha has been an curator of contemporary art and art writer since the early 1990s. Her exhibition and writing history can be found on bashaprojects.com. Amongst her most recent projects is Tuning Baghdad, an audio-visual forum for chronicling Iraqi-Jewish music scene and their house parties (based on her own background). This ongoing project brings […]

Jessica Hagedorn received her education at the American Conservatory Theater training program. To further pursue playwriting and music, she moved to New York in 1978. Joseph Papp produced her first play Mango Tango in 1978. Hagedorn's other productions include Tenement Lover, Holy Food, and Teenytown. Her mixed media style often incorporates song, poetry, images, and […]

Frequent or contextually-predictable words are often phonetically reduced, e.g. shortened or produced with articulatory undershoot. Three common explanations for this phenomenon attribute phonetic reduction, and pronunciation variation generally, to variation in (1) intelligibility, (2) speed of lexical access, and (3) probabilistic properties of whole utterances. In this talk, I discuss recent results (Gahl, Yao & […]