Events

Misfit Horror  A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected.   January 19th - Who Can Kill a Child? One of the most disturbing horror films from a decade that was conspicuously filled with them, Who Can Kill a Child? takes […]

Rebecca Karl’s current work includes a forthcoming book entitled The Magic of Concepts: Philosophy and the Economic in Twentieth Century China; this book examines the intersections between philosophical and economic questions as they emerge and re-emerge over the course of China's twentieth century. Ongoing work includes a project on histories of economic concepts in China […]

Goal: Guide Humanities faculty on the processes and resources available when submitting a Humanities research proposal and post-award considerations Presenters: Irena Polić, Cayla McEwen, Anne Callahan, Lisa Oman To sign up for this session, please RSVP to: annem@ucsc.edu

Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! Writer/Performer Beth Lisick is the author of five books: the memoir collection Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames, the New York Times bestselling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool, the gonzo self-help manifesto Helping Me Help Myself, the story collection This […]

The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Mediterranean Studies: Ancient Comparative Why do ruins happen? Are they caused by natural catastrophes, invasions, economic collapse, state failure, or by something else? This talk will address these questions from a new perspective, integrating sociological comparison […]

Built into the grammatical architecture of any language we find constraints on possible structures. The processing system that uses these structures appears to have inherent preferences in how we interpret them. By looking at a domain where there exists tension between what constraint a learner might expect their language to conform to and the interpretations […]

Abstract: This paper investigates the connection between learning and assessment by examining the implementation of ACTFL’s Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in intermediate, L2 Spanish classes. There were 880 students who participated in this classroom-based study. This presentation will discuss the following: 1) the theoretical and pedagogical bases of IPA; 2) the materials and tasks that […]