Events
Week of Events
Sunday, April 29, 2012
No events on this day.
Monday, April 30, 2012
No events on this day.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
No events on this day.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
- May 2, 2012 -Catherine Jones: “Children and the Problem of Agency”
- May 2, 2012 -Lisa Kaborych of the Medici Archive Project and Its New Digital Interactive Platform
- May 2, 2012 -A Dickens Day Celebration
Catherine Jones: “Children and the Problem of Agency”
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Catherine Jones History, UCSC Excluded from favored liberal remedies for realizing new freedoms in postemancipation Virginia, children nevertheless shaped broad Reconstruction contests over the meaning of freedom. This paper focuses on children in order to consider whether liberal assumptions embedded in the idea of agency have excessively narrowed historians' […]
Lisa Kaborych of the Medici Archive Project and Its New Digital Interactive Platform
The Medici Archive Project Presents: Preview a presentation by Lisa Kaborycha of the Medici Archive Project, Florence, of a new, interactive digital platform that will debut as freeware this July. This platform is adaptable for the needs of many kinds of document management, and Lisa will be on hand to discuss its properties and capacities.
A Dickens Day Celebration
A Celebration in Honor of Charles Dickens’s 200th Birthday Anniversary Year Co-sponsored by The Dickens Project, University of California, Santa Cruz An Important Notice of (perhaps) the one and only all-day Dickens Day Celebration in San Francisco, hence, one that should not be missed on all account. Thus, a brief description of what will occur […]
Thursday, May 3, 2012
- May 3, 2012 -Dizikes Award and “Celebrating the Humanities” 2012
- May 3, 2012 -HUGRA Award Presentations
- May 3, 2012 -Celebrating Humanities Spring Awards
Dizikes Award and “Celebrating the Humanities” 2012
Alan Christy, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies Director, is the 2012 recipient of the John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities. Both students and colleagues alike offered high praise regarding Alan's teaching skills and the positive impact he has had on students over the years. John Dizikes will be on hand to present […]
HUGRA Award Presentations
This year’s Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations will be held in conjunction with the Celebrating Humanities event. Following is the schedule: 1:00 - 3:00 pm: HUGRA Awards 3:00 - 4:00 pm: Refreshments 4:00 - 6:00 pm: Spring Awards
Celebrating Humanities Spring Awards
The annual “Celebrating Humanities” event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, awards, distinctions and honors over the course of this last year. Highlights include the presentation of the John Dizikes Teaching Awards in Humanities, which honors the teaching efforts of faculty. Event Photos: The categories for acknowledgement this […]
Friday, May 4, 2012
- May 4, 2012 -“Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing” Conference
- May 4, 2012 -Matthew Tucker, “Variable Agreement: The Morphosyntax of Syntactic Binding”
“Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing” Conference
This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many, varying communities including performance art collaborations, small press publishing and editorial projects, virtual and digital work, academic affiliations, and intersecting aesthetic, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as […]
Matthew Tucker, “Variable Agreement: The Morphosyntax of Syntactic Binding”
Matthew Tucker This talk discusses the interplay between syntax (the order of words and structure in sentences) and morphology (the structure of words) in natural language and the role it can play in linguistic theorizing. While traditional approaches often look at purely syntactic or purely morphological explanations, data from three unrelated syntactic phenomena can be […]
Saturday, May 5, 2012
- May 5, 2012 -“Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing” Conference
“Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing” Conference
This conference is organized around experimental writing and its many, varying communities including performance art collaborations, small press publishing and editorial projects, virtual and digital work, academic affiliations, and intersecting aesthetic, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as […]