Events
Week of Events
Sunday, October 30, 2011
No events on this day.
Monday, October 31, 2011
No events on this day.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
- November 1, 2011 -Mary Flanagan, “Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective”
Mary Flanagan, “Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective”
Mary Flanagan Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective If games always hold within them cultural beliefs, norms, and human values, how are designers to tackle the vexing responsibility of designing […]
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
- November 2, 2011 -Steve McKay, “Masculinities Afloat: The Fragile Gender Projects of Filipino Migrant Sailors”
- November 2, 2011 -Benjamin Cawthra, “Envisioning Jazz: Considering Photography, Race, and American Music”
Steve McKay, “Masculinities Afloat: The Fragile Gender Projects of Filipino Migrant Sailors”
Steve McKay Professor McKay examines the performance of masculinities among a group of men often considered exemplars of masculinity—merchant sailors. The talk explores their gender projects across liminal space (ocean-going […]
Benjamin Cawthra, “Envisioning Jazz: Considering Photography, Race, and American Music”
Benjamin Cawthra, associate professor of history at Benjamin Cawthra California State University, Fullerton and author of Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz (Chicago, 2011), discusses the tradition […]
Thursday, November 3, 2011
- November 3, 2011 -Brooke Holmes, “The Missing Body: Authority, Immunity, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing”
- November 3, 2011 -Living Writers Reading Series: Maggie Nelson
- November 3, 2011 -Living Writers Reading Series: C.S. Giscombe
Brooke Holmes, “The Missing Body: Authority, Immunity, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing”
The UCSC Program in Classical Studies presents: Professor Brooke Holmes, Princeton University, 'The Missíng Body: Authority, Immunity, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing" Brooke Holms Brooke Holmes' paper arises from a simple question: […]
Living Writers Reading Series: Maggie Nelson
The Living Writers Reading Series presents Maggie Nelson. Maggie Nelson is a poet and non-fiction writer. Her work includes: The Red Parts: A Memoir, Bluets, and, recently, the 2011 release of The Art of Cruelty. Nelson's poetry has been published in six collections; the most recent is Something Bright, Then Holes. Maggie Nelson Nelson has […]
Living Writers Reading Series: C.S. Giscombe
The Living Writers Reading Series presents C.S. Giscombe. C.S. Giscombe's love of the outdoors is evident in his poetry as well as his teaching at UC Berkeley, where he has taken nonfiction classes on nature-oriented field trips. His books include Giscombe Road, In and Out of Dislocation, and Prairie Style. In 2008 he received the […]
Friday, November 4, 2011
- November 4, 2011 -Linguistics Colloquium: Hagit Borer, “In the Event of a Nominal”
Linguistics Colloquium: Hagit Borer, “In the Event of a Nominal”
Hagit Borer The paper is a detailed study of the properties of Argument-Structure derived -ing nominals versus those of -ing synthetic compounds. In particular, I show that while -ing Argument Structure nominals are compositional and have event structure, -ing synthetic compounds do not. I further argues that these contrasts may only be accounted for by a syntactic approach to the derivation of complex […]
Saturday, November 5, 2011
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