Events
Week of Events
Sunday, January 19, 2014
- January 19, 2014 -Misfit Horror Film Series: Who Can Kill a Child?
Misfit Horror Film Series: Who Can Kill a Child?
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 […]
Monday, January 20, 2014
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
- January 22, 2014 -Rebecca Karl: "Economics, Culture, and Historical Time: A 1930s Chinese Critique"
- January 22, 2014 -Research Proposal Writing Workshop for Faculty and PIs
Rebecca Karl: "Economics, Culture, and Historical Time: A 1930s Chinese Critique"
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 […]
Research Proposal Writing Workshop for Faculty and PIs
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 […]
Thursday, January 23, 2014
- January 23, 2014 -Living Writers Series: Beth Lisick
Living Writers Series: Beth Lisick
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 […]
Friday, January 24, 2014
- January 24, 2014 -Martin Devecka: "Some Ends of the City: Ruins and Utopia in the Ancient World"
- January 24, 2014 -Annie Gagliardi: "Grammar-parser tension in language acquisition: Evidence from Q'anjob'al relative clauses"
- January 24, 2014 -Gabriela Zapata: "Investigating the Connection between Learning and Assessment: Formative Assessment in Intermediate L2 Spanish Classes"
Martin Devecka: "Some Ends of the City: Ruins and Utopia in the Ancient World"
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 […]
Annie Gagliardi: "Grammar-parser tension in language acquisition: Evidence from Q'anjob'al relative clauses"
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 […]
Gabriela Zapata: "Investigating the Connection between Learning and Assessment: Formative Assessment in Intermediate L2 Spanish Classes"
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 […]
Saturday, January 25, 2014
No events on this day.