Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 3, 2013
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Monday, February 4, 2013
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
- February 6, 2013 -Lyn Hejinian: “The Avant-Garde in Progress”
- February 6, 2013 -Creative Writing Reading by Josie Sigler Sibara
- February 6, 2013 -Poetry Reading with Lyn Hejinian, Keegan Finberg and Michael Dhyne
Lyn Hejinian: “The Avant-Garde in Progress”
Lynn Hejinian is currently at work on a book-length essay, tentatively titled The Positions of the Sun, and exploring practical as well as conceptual possibilities for avant-garde and quotidian practices under conditions of late (or perhaps, now, triumphant) capitalism. Lyn Hejinian is professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is a poet and critic. She […]
Poetry Reading with Lyn Hejinian, Keegan Finberg and Michael Dhyne
Lyn Hejinian Lyn Hejinian is professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is a poet and critic. She works on modernist and postmodern literature, American postwar experimental literature, Gertrude Stein, the Objectivists, Language Writing, Soviet Russian poetry, translation, small press publishing, and questions of aesthetics and ethics. Her work includes the following books of poetry: […]
Thursday, February 7, 2013
- February 7, 2013 -Living Writers Reading by Josie Sigler Sibara
- February 7, 2013 -Maziar Toosarvandani: "Gapping is VP Ellipsis "
- February 7, 2013 -Jonathan Kaplan: "Turning social categories into biological realities: 'Race' made biological"
Maziar Toosarvandani: "Gapping is VP Ellipsis "
Where does the gap in gapping -- e.g. Some had ordered mussels, and others swordfish -- come from? The traditional answer is deletion (Ross 1970, Hankamer 1979, among others). Johnson (2009) presents a formidable challenge to this view. He argues that gapping cannot arise through deletion because gapping has several unique properties that distinguish it […]
Jonathan Kaplan: "Turning social categories into biological realities: 'Race' made biological"
Biological facts can neither determine nor justify the racial categories identified in our ordinary social discourse. Claims to the contrary confuse our ability to find biological correlates to populations with our social reasons for picking out and maintaining those categories over time. Using recent arguments surrounding "race" and medicine as an example, I argue that […]
Friday, February 8, 2013
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
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