Events
Week of Events
Sunday, March 8, 2015
No events on this day.
Monday, March 9, 2015
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
- March 11, 2015 -DH Working Group Meeting / Reading Group
DH Working Group Meeting / Reading Group
The Digital Humanities Working Group will meet to discuss a shared reading. This quarter we will consider the field of Digital Humanities broadly and the challenges to the idea of a Digital Humanities field. To spark this discussion, we will read 3 selections from Matthew Gold, ed. Debatesin Digital Humanities (First published in print by University of […]
Thursday, March 12, 2015
- March 12, 2015 -Felipe De Brigard: "The Explanatory Indispensability of Memory Traces"
- March 12, 2015 -Living Writers Series: Student Reading TBD
- March 12, 2015 -Sikh Rappers & Social Justice
Felipe De Brigard: "The Explanatory Indispensability of Memory Traces"
Abstract: Many philosophers of memory have wondered whether or not it is indispensible to postulate the existence of memory traces to explain remembering. In this talk I will offer an argument in favor of the explanatory indispensability of memory traces. To that end, I will begin by demonstrating that the main arguments in favor of […]
Living Writers Series: Student Reading TBD
To end the Winter 2015 Living Writers Series, a selected student TBD will present their work. Winter 2015 Living Writers Series: January 15: Cherrie Moraga, poet/playwright January 22: Veronica Reyes & Javier Huerta, poets January 29: Korimar Press, Lorenzo Herrera Y Lozano (publisher) & Maya Chincilla (poet) February 5: Rigoberto Gonzalez, poet February […]
Sikh Rappers & Social Justice
Sikh hip-hop artists Baagi and Hoodini will explore facets of the immigrant and minority experience in multicultural America, in an evening of music, poetry and collective discussion. The evening will touch on topics such as race relations and social inequalities in today’s complex society. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Baagi […]
Friday, March 13, 2015
- March 13, 2015 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jessica Calvanico
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Jessica Calvanico
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 – 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202. Winter 2015 Schedule: January 16th - Jesica Siham Fernández, Social Psychology, "Latina/o Children as Cultural […]
Saturday, March 14, 2015
- March 14, 2015 -Shakespeare and Music
- March 14, 2015 -Vera Gribanova: "Head movement, ellipsis, and Russian polarity focus"
- March 14, 2015 -Santa Cruz Baroque Festival: Treasures from the Age of Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Music
Shakespeare is famous for his speeches, but the London theaters where his plays took place were also filled with music. "Shakespeare and Music" is a symposium exploring the popular music of Renaissance England, the practice of vocal and instrumental music in Shakespeare's plays, and Shakespeare's meditation on music as a metaphor for his art and […]
Vera Gribanova: "Head movement, ellipsis, and Russian polarity focus"
Vera Gribanova is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. Abstract: In this talk I chart the interaction between head movement, ellipsis, and non-canonical word orders in the analysis of a variety of Russian responses to statements or questions that raise polar alternatives in the discourse. (1) Evgenija poslala posylku v Moskvu? Evgenija […]
Santa Cruz Baroque Festival: Treasures from the Age of Shakespeare
Featuring: The Baltimore Consort Heavenly harmony and earthly delights from the time of the bard. Reveal in the triumphal return of America's favorite early music ensemble, playing their 'exquisite consort' of Renaissance instruments -lute, cittern, viols, and flute. Concertgoers will also enjoy the grand prize winning group from our Youth Chamber Music Competition. UCSC Music […]