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SUMMARY:Jennifer Derr\, Talk title TBA
DESCRIPTION:The Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. \nJennifer Derr has her B.S. from Stanford University; M.A.\, Georgetown University; Ph.D.\, Stanford. Areas of academic interest include modern Middle Eastern history\, African history\, Ottoman Empire\, early Islamic history. Fellow\, Society of Junior Fellows in British Studies\, University of Texas at Austin (2009–10); James Birdsall Weter Memorial Fund Dissertation Grant (2008–09); Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2007–08). Has taught at American University in Cairo\, University of California at Davis\, Stanford University. Articles in Arab Studies Journal\, Middle East Report\, Molecular and Cellular Biology. At Bard since 2010.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jennifer-derr-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20111130T120000
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SUMMARY:Herman Gray\, "At the Limit of Representation:  Neoliberalism\, Media and African American Visibility"
DESCRIPTION:Herman Gray\nWith African Americans as the primary example\, Professor Gray probes the social\, intellectual\, and political investment in the cultural politics of recognition and visibility in the context of neoliberalism\, suggesting that with neoliberalism we have reached the limit of such investments. Looking beyond this investment in representation\, recognition and visibility\, he examines what other critical modes and sites of cultural analysis and politics are possible. \nHerman Gray is Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis colloquium is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies\, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/herman-gray-at-the-limit-of-representation-neoliberalism-media-and-african-american-visibility-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:Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther: "Abstraction\, the Abstract\, and Abstractionism: Psychological and Philosophical Perspectives"
DESCRIPTION:Rasmus Grønfeldt WintherConcepts\, models\, and theories; words\, propositions\, and language; are typically understood as abstract representations and abstract maps. The abstract allows us to navigate tentatively and successfully through the concrete world with which we interact as laymen and scientists; adults and infants. How does abstraction take place? What is the abstract\, and what is it used for? What are the dangers and limits of both overextending abstractions beyond their appropriate conditions of application\, and separating the abstract too much from the concrete\, the general too much from the specific\, and the universal too much from the particular – i.e.\, of abstractionism? \nThis talk explores a variety of analyses of abstraction\, the abstract\, and abstractionism from psychology (e.g.\, Barsalou’s “abstraction in perceptual symbol systems\,” Gopnik’s and Murphy & Medin’s “theory theory\,” and early Kurt Lewin\, F. A. Hayek\, and Ohlsson and Lehtinen’s “primacy of the abstract”) and from philosophy (e.g.\, the pragmatism of James and Dewey\, the neo-Kantianism of Kuhn and Friedman\, and the “kinds of people” analyses of Hacking\, following Foucault). The talk also relates abstraction (and the abstract) to closely related—perhaps even co-constitutive—concepts and processes: (1) analogizing (and analogies)\, (2) mapping (and maps)\, and (3) distinction-making (and distinctions). In short\, a philosophical and psychological anthropology of abstraction\, the abstract\, and abstractionism is the aim. \nReading: “The Knife and the One” (PDF) \nRasmus Grønfeldt Winther is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rasmus-gronfeldt-winther-abstraction-the-abstract-and-abstractionism-psychological-and-philosophical-perspectives-3/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 121\,  Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95604\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alide Cagidemetrio: “Choosing Venice: Seduction\, Henry James\, and The Wings of the Dove”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Alide Cagidemetrio of the University of Venice will speak on\n“Choosing Venice: Seduction\, Henry James\, and The Wings of the Dove” \nProfessor Cagidemetrio will offer some observations about details in the novel\, 19th century Venice\, James’s biography\, and some literary themes such as don juanism\, thinking to reinstate curiosity as a legitimate part of aesthetic pleasure. To begin the process\, attached is an image of a detail from mosaics of San Marco\, and one of Whistler’s lagoon paintings. \nAt the reception following her talk\, Professor Cagidemetriou will discuss the benefits of collaboration between the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari and UCSC and the possibility of summer courses in Venice. \nThis event is made possible from generous support from the David B. Gold Foundation. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alide-cagidemetrio-choosing-venice-seduction-henry-james-and-the-wings-of-the-dove-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen Jesny: "The Interaction of Markedness Factors in Child Consonant Cluster Acquisition"
DESCRIPTION:Karen Jesny\nConsonant clusters introduce multiple sources of markedness that must be mastered in the course of phonological acquisition. This talk considers how segmental markedness\, sonority\, and cluster status interact in the acquisition process. Two case studies are presented. The first\, drawing on data from the English-acquiring child Trevor (Compton & Streeter 1977\, Pater 1997) illustrates how increased segmental markedness can lead to lags in coda cluster acquisition\, with a preference for deletion of the segment that contributes the additional markedness. This basic pattern eludes Optimality Theory\, but can be modeled within Harmonic Grammar (Legendre\, Miyata & Smolensky 1990\, Smolensky & Legendre 2006)\, where weighted constraints interact in a linear fashion. The second case study draws on data from the acquisition of Dutch (Fikkert 1994\, Levelt 1994)\, focusing on cases where sonority and segmental markedness present conflicting demands. Here\, segmental factors provide a better explanation for the accuracy and general repair patterns than the sonority cline of the cluster. At the same time\, however\, the precise simplification patterns observed – specifically the choice of which segment is deleted – are\, to the extent possible\, governed by sonority. These complex patterns extend beyond what can be modeled through the linear interaction of simple constraints in Harmonic Grammar\, and argue in favour of a more articulated series of segmental licensing constraints. \nKaren Jesny is a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts. Her primary interests are in phonological theory\, phonological acquisition\, and learnability. \nThis talk is presented by the Department of Linguistics. For more information please contact Nathan Arnett\, nvarnett@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-karen-jesny-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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