Events
Week of Events
Sunday, May 6, 2012
No events on this day.
Monday, May 7, 2012
- May 7, 2012 -Patricia Lunn: “In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar”
Patricia Lunn: “In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar”
LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES PRESENTS: "In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar" Patricia Lunn Professor Emeritus of Spanish Michigan State University Discussions about teaching grammar in the foreign language classroom are usually cast in terms of when (in order of acquisition) and how much (as against other activities). A little-discussed aspect of grammar teaching is what […]
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
- May 8, 2012 -Are You My Data? A Research Ethics Forum
Are You My Data? A Research Ethics Forum
The Office of Research is sponsoring a series of Research Ethics Fora for faculty, postdocs and graduate students. The first forum in the Series "Are You My Data?" is on Tuesday May 8th in the Alumni Room of the University Center and is hosted by Prof. Jennifer Reardon of the Science & Justice Working Group. […]
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
- May 9, 2012 -Loren Goldman: “Vaclav Havel and the Politics and Practice of Hope”
- May 9, 2012 -Jon Varese: “Digital Dickens”.
- May 9, 2012 -Mussolini’s Secret
Loren Goldman: “Vaclav Havel and the Politics and Practice of Hope”
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Loren Goldman Assistant Professor, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Townsend Fellow at UCB Professor Goldman is a political theorist whose work concerns the intersection of utopian thought and political agency. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the concept of political hope in the modern period from Kant to Dewey. Co-sponsored by […]
Jon Varese: “Digital Dickens”.
The Dickens Project would like to welcome everyone to visit the exhibit of its 32-year history, mounted in four display cases just outside Special Collections on the 3rd floor of McHenry Library. The exhibit makes note of both the scholarly and the outreach missions of the Project, and will be up for the duration of […]
Mussolini’s Secret
UCSC Language Program, Italian Studies Program, Cowell Provost and History Department Present: A 2005 documentary folk by Gianfranco Norelli and Fabrizio Laurenti followed by a conversation with director Norelli. Reception at Cowell Provost's House 7:00PM. Running tim 55 minutes in English Mussolini's Secret tells the unknown story of Benito Albino, Mussolini's secret son, and his […]
Thursday, May 10, 2012
- May 10, 2012 -Trevor Joy Sangrey: “’Put One More “S” in the USA’: Pamphlet Literature and the Productive Fiction of the Black Nation Thesis”
- May 10, 2012 -Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Natalie Handal
Trevor Joy Sangrey: “’Put One More “S” in the USA’: Pamphlet Literature and the Productive Fiction of the Black Nation Thesis”
In 1928 the Communist Party developed an unconventional and intriguing proposal that black people in the Black Belt of the Southern United States were an unrecognized national group and should have rights to self-determination, a move later called the “Black Nation Thesis.” Written in Moscow, the Black Nation Thesis was forged in the US through […]
Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Natalie Handal
Natalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, and editor. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Arab world. Her poetry collections include: The Neverfield, The Lives of Rain, shortlisted for The Agnes Lynch Starret Poetry Prize and the recipient of the Menada Literary Award, and Love and Strange […]
Friday, May 11, 2012
- May 11, 2012 -Graduate Research Symposium
- May 11, 2012 -CANCELLED: Linguistics Colloquium: Dominique Sportiche
Graduate Research Symposium
Join us on Friday, May 11th for the 8th Annual Graduate Research Symposium. This event offers students an opportunity to share their research with faculty, staff, friends, colleagues and the local community in the form of poster, oral, live or multimedia presentations. This year's event featurs 20 oral and live presentations, 100 poster presentations and […]
CANCELLED: Linguistics Colloquium: Dominique Sportiche
Dominique Sportiche works on formal syntax. He has focused on the theory of constituent structure, and properties of the syntax/semantics interface (especially in French and the Romance languages) as they bear on the architecture of syntactic or grammatical theory and on cognition in general. He has published work on phrase structure, agreement, clitics, and reconstruction […]
Saturday, May 12, 2012
No events on this day.