Events
Week of Events
California Semantics and Pragmatics 9 (CUSP)
CUSP 9 will be held at UC Santa Cruz on October 21-22, 2016. Established in 2009, CUSP serves as a venue for researchers in semantics and pragmatics to exchange ideas and receive feedback in a small, friendly, collaborative environment. For more information visit http://linguistics.ucsc.edu
Sunday, October 16, 2016
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Monday, October 17, 2016
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
- October 18, 2016 -Questions That Matter: “Anger in Politics: From the Bard to the Donald”
Questions That Matter: “Anger in Politics: From the Bard to the Donald”
Presented by the Institute for Humanities Research and Shakespeare Workshop What place does anger have in public life? Should we welcome the expression of anger in our elections and political deliberations, or does the common good depend on the existence of political institutions and processes from which anger and other strong emotions are excluded? Has […]
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
- October 19, 2016 -Paul N. Edwards: “Afterworld: Technosphere, Anthropocene, Geostory”
- October 19, 2016 -Geraldine Brooks: “The Secret Chord”
Paul N. Edwards: “Afterworld: Technosphere, Anthropocene, Geostory”
Paul N. Edwards’ current research concerns the history and future of knowledge infrastructures, the history of climate science, and other large-scale information infrastructures. Edwards is the author most recently of A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (2010). Edwards is Professor at the School of Information and Department of History […]
Geraldine Brooks: “The Secret Chord”
Now out in paperback from Pulitzer Prize winning, bestselling author Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord traces the arc of King David's journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage. The Secret Chord has received critical acclaim; The […]
Thursday, October 20, 2016
- October 20, 2016 -David Landy: “Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix to Hume’s Treatise”
- October 20, 2016 -Living Writers: Alfredo Vea
David Landy: “Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix to Hume’s Treatise”
In the Appendix to his Treatise, Hume famously expresses a deep dissatisfaction with the account of personal identity that he had earlier presented, but offers only the briefest description of what his concern is. Scholars working on this problem have presented a wide variety of suggestions of what Hume might be thinking. I will argue […]
Living Writers: Alfredo Vea
Alfredo Vea Alfredo Véa was born in the desert outside of Phoenix, but not in America. His grandfather was a Yaqui Indian, his grandmother was a Spanish-Mexican curandera who had played piano in silent movie theaters. Their grass covered adobe house stood at the epicenter of hundreds of tarpaper shacks built by Okies and Arkies. […]
Friday, October 21, 2016
- October 21, 2016 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kali Rubaii
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kali Rubaii
"Enemy Inside Out: Birth Defects in Fallujah" Hotly debated and widely misunderstood is the epidemic of birth defects in Fallujah, Iraq. While the possibility of knowing the exact cause of this epidemic is diluted by ongoing war, layers of chemical toxicity, and mass displacement/destruction of doctors, patients, and medical facilities; the surrounding enviro-medical discourse is […]
Saturday, October 22, 2016
- October 22, 2016 -2016 Founders Celebration
2016 Founders Celebration
Please join us at Founders Celebration 2016 for a look into the library as a "collision space" where technology, information, and ideas collide to create new knowledge and support dynamic exploration. This is an exclusive opportunity to celebrate and mingle in a special campus location that symbolizes both the excitement of change and the tradition […]