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SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: The House with Laughing Windows
DESCRIPTION:The House with Laughing Windows (1976\, dir. Pupi Avati) – a moody and masterful giallo (Italian thriller / mystery / slasher film)\nOne of the most remarkable (albeit atypical) examples of a giallo (Italian mystery-thriller-slasher film) out there\, Pupi Avati’s The House with Laughing Windows is a masterpiece of mood and ambient creepiness whose ability to stretch an atmosphere of queasy apprehension to the absolute breaking point over the course of a feature-length film is probably second only to Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now\, made just three years previously. A young art historian named Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) comes to a remote Italian village to restore some twentieth-century frescos that depict the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian in an old church. Some rumors suggest that the deceased artist of the works actually tortured and murdered his real-life models. Meanwhile\, Stefano’s efforts to restore the frescoes get sidetracked by all the locals who have secrets they want to share with him but cannot because they keep dying under mysterious circumstances before they can actually get down to the business of telling him much of anything. This is a movie whose tensions and uneasiness build and build and build . . . Not to be missed!\nMisfit Horror is 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. \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-1-26-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140127T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140127T183000
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SUMMARY:Silvia Perpiñan: "Microparametric variation among Romance languages: the L2 acquisition of Spanish locative and existential constructions by Catalan and Italian speakers"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Selection of copula verbs in Spanish is a classic challenging area for L2 learners. Even so\, it has received moderate attention on SLA research\, and most of the studies have focused on the acquisition of the semantic and pragmatic distinctions between ser and estar\, particularly when combined with adjectives (Bruhn de Garavito & Valenzuela\, 2006; Geeslin\, 2002; 2003; Schmitt & Miller\, 2007; among others). The present study goes beyond the alternation between ser and estar + adjective by looking at the selection of copula verbs to express location\, and existentials. \nFollowing Freeze (1992)\, I assume a universal locative paradigm with three surface structures that imply the use of three different verbs in Spanish: estar for the predicate locative when the subject is an object (1)\, and ser when it is an event (2); the existential with haber (2); and the possessive or ‘have’ using tener. \nThree microparametric differences among Spanish\, Italian\, and Catalan are investigated\, which regulate (a) the distribution of ser vs. estar in locatives (the eventiveness effect\, which does not exist in Standard Catalan or Italian)\, (b) the distribution of haber vs. estar (the definiteness effect\, Milsark\, 1977\, which is only obeyed in Spanish)\, and (c) the use of clitics in locatives (Spanish does not have a locative clitic\, whereas in Catalan and Italian it is obligatory). Given these differences\, we question whether L2 speakers of Spanish are able to fully acquire the distribution of estar in locative predicates and observe the restriction on definite DPs in Spanish existential constructions. Furthermore\, we wonder how the bilingual mind will restructure her clitic system into a reduced morphological paradigm with no partitive or locative clitics. \nThe present study analyzes the expression of L2 Spanish existential and locative constructions in 20 native speakers of Catalan\, 34 native speakers of Italian (from Rome)\, and 20 monolingual Spanish speakers with two main tasks\, an Acceptability Judgment Task and an elicited oral production task. Results indicated that L2 learners used significantly less ester to express location than native speakers\, showing that this verb develops later than ser as previously reported for English (VanPatten\, 1985\, 1987)\, and as predicted by recent analyses of the copular ser/estar (Brucart\, 2012; Gallego & Uriagereka\, 2011). Nonetheless\, Italian speakers also overgeneralized estar to localize events\, and in existential constructions\, when ser or haber are required in Spanish. \nFinally\, Italian speakers of intermediate proficiency\, and some Catalan speakers continued using ser to localize objects. More interestingly\, both L2 groups accepted definite DPs in presentational sentences\, violating the definiteness effect\, displaying problems when assembling semantic features into specific lexical pieces. These results will be discussed within the debate on dissociation between acquisition of syntax and acquisition of semantics\, and the feature assembly or feature matching hypothesis (Lardiere\, 2008\, 2009; Slabakova\, 2009).\nSpeaker: Silvia Perpiñan is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Western Ontario.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/silvia-perpinan-microparametric-variation-among-romance-languages-the-l2-acquisition-of-spanish-locative-and-existential-constructions-by-catalan-and-italian-speakers-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140129T133000
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SUMMARY:Mayanthi Fernando: "Improper Intimacies\, or the Cunning of Secularism"
DESCRIPTION:Mayanthi Fernando works on religion\, politics\, and the secular. Her first book on the Islamic revival and French secularity will be out in 2014. Her new project examines the nexus of sex\, religion\, and secularism\, and in particular the French state’s regulation of Muslim women’s sexual and religious intimacies. \nMayanthi Fernando is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-mayanthi-fernando-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140130T163000
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SUMMARY:North French Hebrew Miscellany
DESCRIPTION:Come to Special Collections to look at and learn about a spectacular book recently acquired by Special Collections.\nUCSC Special Collections has recently acquired a facsimile of one of the world’s most important medieval Jewish manuscripts\, the North French Hebrew Miscellany. \nThe manuscript was written and lavishly illustrated in northern France in about 1280 at a time of upheaval for the Jews of Europe. Comprising almost 1500 pages with 84 different groups of texts\, this small volume served as a portable library. The texts include scripture\, daily prayers\, mahzor\, the Passover Haggadah\, religious poetry\, blessings\, calendars\, formularies for legal deeds and the earliest known copy of Isaac de Corbeil’s Sefer Mitsvot Katan\, composed in 1277. Three to five artists worked with the scribe to decorate and illuminate the manuscript\, most likely in or near Troyes. It is now housed in the British Library. \nPlease join us on  to welcome this wonderful addition to Special Collections – the facsimile will be on display and Professors Sharon Kinoshita and Gildas Hamel will share their expertise with us.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/north-french-hebrew-miscellany-cjs-2/
LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Series: Rachel Swirsky and Sina Grace
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! \nFantasy Writer Rachel Swirsky has published over fifty short stories in venues including The New Haven Review\, Tor.com and Clarkesworld Magazine. Her speculative fiction has been nominated for most of the genre’s major awards\, including the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award\, and in 2010\, she won the Nebula Award for her novella “The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen’s Window.” She holds a master’s degree in fiction from the Iowa Writing Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her second collection\, HOW THE WORLD BECAME QUIET: MYTHS OF THE PAST\, PRESENT AND FUTURE\, came out from Subterranean Press at the end of September. \nSina Grace is the author and illustrator of the indie mini-series Books with Pictures\, the neo-noirCedric Hollows in Dial M for Magic\, and the autobiographical one-shot\, Self-Obsessed. Not My Bag\, which recounts a story of retail hell\, is his new book from Image Comics. He lives in Los Angeles\, where he can be found in coffee shops working on his revenge video game-kickback\, Burn the Orphanage.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-winter2014-3-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project
DESCRIPTION:The Nickelodeon Theatre will host “An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project” on Thursday January 30 in conjunction with the screening of “The Invisible Woman” film\, showing at 6:50 pm. The film\, which stars Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens\, is based on the Claire Tomalin book of the same title\, delves into the closely-held secret of Dickens’s love affair with the much-younger actress\, Ellen Ternan. During this period\, Dickens was also involved in a harrowing railway accident\, and nearly lost the manuscript to his novel\, Our Mutual Friend. The novel is the featured book for this summer’s Dickens Universe conference. \nDickens Project founders Murray Baumgarten and John Jordan will lead a discussion after the film\, joined by Jessica Kuskey and Nirshan Perera. The event is open to the public. Students will receive a special discount of $3 off the normal admission.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-the-ucsc-dickens-project-2/
LOCATION:Nickelodeon Theater\, 210 Lincoln Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Politics of the Digital: Poetry\, Technology\, and the University
DESCRIPTION:This two-day event includes a poetry reading and an interdisciplinary symposium featuring graduate students\, faculty\, and a keynote from Johanna Drucker. \nFriday\, January 31\, 2014: Poetry reading at 6 p.m. at the Felix Kulpa Gallery \nFeaturing Johanna Drucker with Eireene Nealand\, Margaret Rhee\, and Tsering Wangmo \nSaturday\, February 1\, 2014: Interdisciplinary symposium at Humanities 1\, room 210 \nPanel One: Textual and Visual Technologies—Pre-Histories of a Digital Era \nPanel Two: Digital Practice and Database Aesthetics \nPanel Three: Neoliberalism and the Digital Future \nKeynote from Johanna Drucker: Towards a New Humanism \nThe activities associated with the term “digital humanities” have gained much attention recently in academic and mainstream venues. But have core values of humanism been discounted as a result? Do the techniques of analytic processing or other engagements with large data displace or devalue those of more traditional method and even\, perhaps\, traffic in the worst kind of concessions to administered culture? Might these digital approaches be at odds with the tenets of humanistic inquiry? What are the ways out of a binaristic opposition between a retro-oriented\, possibly conservative\, defense of “the humanities” and a techno-digital approach that seems to some to dehumanize cultural materials by treating them as “data”? The answer might be in recovering the methods of humanism\, rather than just its objects. Engagement with the materiality of texts and artifacts crosses many disciplinary lines—from traditional critical studies\, bibliography\, and law to current studies of media archaeology\, new materialism\, and digital interpretation. This talk addresses ways in which the cultural authority of the humanities might be formulated as a new humanism whose methods and values extend traditional interpretative work while taking up some of the potential offered by data-driven and algorithm-based approaches to the study of human culture. \nReception at the Kresge Provost House \nMore info and full agenda available at http://www.ucscpoetrypolitics.com/upcoming-events.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/politics-of-the-digital-poetry-technology-and-the-university-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140131T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140131T173000
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SUMMARY:Kathryn Pruitt: "Culminativity in Harmonic Serialism"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This talk considers the typology of word-headedness in languages with iterative stress and discusses a traditional classification of such systems—top-down vs. bottom-up (Hayes 1995)—in the context of Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy 2010). In some languages the primary stress is autonomous\, having properties that are different from those of its secondary stresses\, which has been used to argue against bottom-up metrification in serial theories (van der Hulst 1984\, 1997\, 2009\, Bailey 1995). Other languages\, however\, show a primary stress which is clearly parasitic on secondary stresses\, which follows straightforwardly from a bottom-up theory but is incompatible with a top-down one (Hayes 1995). To account for both autonomous and parasitic culminativity in Harmonic Serialism\, this talk outlines the following proposals: (1) primary stress assignment can and must happen simultaneously with foot-building\, in a basically top-down fashion\, and (2) the primary stress must be allowed to move to another foot in the course of a derivation. In other words\, the conclusion will be that attested patterns of primary stress assignment provide evidence for limited parallelism in stress\, even when general metrification\, and the grammar itself\, is otherwise serial. Allowing limited parallelism without giving up serialism altogether is also defended\, as the predicted typology of culminativity in a serial theory with limited parallelism is shown to be superior to that of theory with unrestricted parallelism. \nReferences \nBailey\, Todd Mark (1995). Non-metrical constraints on stress. Doctoral dissertation\, University of Minnesota. \nHayes\, Bruce (1995). Metrical stress theory: principles and case studies. University of Chicago Press\, Chicago. \nvan der Hulst\, Harry (1984). Syllable structure and stress in Dutch. Foris\, Dordrecht. \nvan der Hulst\, Harry (1997). Primary accent is non-metrical. Revista di Linguistica 9: 99–127. \nvan der Hulst\, Harry (2009). Brackets and grid marks\, or theories of primary accent and rhythm. In Eric Raimy and Charles E. Cairns (eds.)\, Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonological Theory\, pp. 225–245. MIT Press\, Cambridge\, MA. \nMcCarthy\, John J. (2010). An introduction to Harmonic Serialism. Language and Linguistics Compass 4(10): 1010–1018.\nKathryn Pruitt is at Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-kathryn-pruitt-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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