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SUMMARY:On Barak\, "Against Energy: Provincializing Thermodynamics between Aden and Port Said"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nDespite feigning perpetuity\, “energy” is a child of its time\, the nineteenth century. Born from the related challenges of steam engineering and British imperialism its legacies still haunt and limit our thinking on matters ranging from fossil fuels to race\, from labor to the underground. This talk seeks to situate the emblematic energy source – coal – back in its imperial context\, revealing what may be called “coalonialism” at play in the territories between the two major global fueling stations of the century\, Aden and Port Said. Such acts of provincializing flesh out alternative ways for regarding fossil fuels\, including ethical\, political and environmental insights that the science of thermodynamics helped evaporate. \nBarak is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern & African History at Tel Aviv University. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-5-2/
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:20171115T130000
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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities: Intro to Scalar Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Online Publishing and Non-Linear Argumentation\nThis introductory workshop is designed to let you start using Scalar\, an online publishing platform. The workshop will focus on adding media content to Scalar and creating non-linear relationships. This is a hands on opportunity: bring ideas and content to the workshop. You will leave ready to explore and build on your own. \nLocation: Digital Scholarship Commons (Ground Floor McHenry Library) \nCo-Sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons and the Institute for Humanties Research
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/intro-to-scalar-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry  Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T160000
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SUMMARY:Reading Seminar with On Barak\, "Strands of Tentacular Thinking"
DESCRIPTION:The “Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene” Research Cluster invites faculty and graduate students to a reading seminar with On Barak\, Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Tel Aviv University. Dr. Barak is a historian of the modern Middle East\, specializing in the introduction of science and technology into non-Western settings. He is the author of On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt (UC Press\, 2013).  We will be meeting in Humanities 408\, on Thursday\, November 16\, from 4:00-6:00 pm. \nStrands of Tentacular Thinking: \nWhat can the non-Western humanities offer in the face of climate change – a phenomenon usually situated squarely in the domain of technoscience and entrenched in the fossil-fueled European Industrial Revolution and capitalism? A chapter-draft from On Barak’s book project Coalonialism grapples with such questions by drawing on nineteenth-century translations of geology books into Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. The reading seminar puts this chapter in dialogue with works by Donna Haraway and Peter Godfrey-Smith. Read together\, these texts constitute an attempt to recruit the octopus – a creature whose arms are said to be smarter than its brain – to reconsider imperial flows of concepts and power.​ \nSeminar readings: \nStaying with Trouble – Donna Haraway  \nThe Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life – Peter Godfrey-Smith  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reading-seminar-with-on-barak-strands-of-tentacular-thinking-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171116T173000
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SUMMARY:Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Dorianne Laux
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nThe Eighth Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading presented by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Living Writers Series featuring Dorianne Laux Thursday November 16\, 2017 at 5:30pm \nPoet Gary Young\, will host the program\, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1\,000 prize). This annual free event will have first-come\, first-served seating. Doors will open at 5:20 PM. The reading will conclude with a book signing and reception. \nThe Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet\, teacher\, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus\, a nationally acclaimed poet\, called Santa Cruz his home for more than fifty years. This annual poetry series continues Mort’s tradition of bringing acclaimed poets to Santa Cruz County\, continues to acknowledge the significant role poetry has played in our community’s history\, and works to maintain poetry’s influence in our county’s culture. \nFree Admission \nDoors will open at 5:20pm\, event starts at 5:30pm \nBook signing and reception to follow \nParking information and directions:\nPlease park at the Cowell/Stevenson Parking lot 109 (map here: http://maps.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/Humanities_and_Social_Sciences_Facility.pdf). Follow path from lot 109 to Humanities Lecture Hall. Permits are $4.00 and attendants will be present at parking lot to sell permits to event attendees. For disability accommodations\, please contact ihr@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274. \nAbout Dorianne Laux: Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection\, The Book of Men\, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems\, Facts About the Moon won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of Awake; What We Carry\, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition\, The Book of Women. She is the co-author of the celebrated text The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Laux teaches poetry in the Program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University and is a founding faculty of Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program. \nAbout Morton Marcus: The Morton Marcus Poetry Reading event commemorates Santa Cruz poet Morton Marcus who was a poet\, author\, teacher\, film critic\, as well as an activist for the arts. Born in New York City\, Morton spent most of his professional life in Santa Cruz\, California\, and he is strongly associated with its poetry and art community. For more information visit www.mortonmarcus.com \nVisit the Morton Marcus Archive in Special Collections at UCSC: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8fx79zs/entire_text/. \nThis community event is co-sponsored by: The Institute for Humanities Research\, Living Writers Series\, Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, Special Collections & Archives\, Cowell College\, Porter College\, Ow Family Properties\, Poetry Santa Cruz\, Cabrillo College English Department\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Santa Cruz Writes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/morton-marcus-poetry-reading-dorianne-laux-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:Linguistics Colloquium: Brian Dillon
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics presents: \nBrian Dillon \n“Process and representation in morphosyntactic processing: A psychophysical approach using Signal Detection Theory”\n \nAbstract:\nIntuitive acceptability judgments have long formed the empirical foundation of syntactic and (to a lesser extent) psycholinguistic theories (Schütze\, 1996). Despite their centrality\, there remain many open issues in the collection\, analysis\, and interpretation of acceptability judgment data. One important thread of research in experimental syntax addresses these issues by borrowing methodology from psychophysics\, such as magnitude estimation (Bard et al. 1996; Cowart\, 1997)\, to more precisely model the relationship between linguistic stimuli and perceived acceptability. \nIn this talk I will follow these researchers in treating intuitions of acceptability as psychological evidence. Accordingly\, I will argue that acceptability judgments can be fruitfully understood as psychophysical data. To this end\, I will describe a framework for analyzing acceptability judgment data using Signal Detection Theory (Bader & Haussler\, 2010; Macmillan & Creelman\, 2005). This approach offers an explicit model of how the underlying percept of acceptability is reflected in experimental measures of acceptability\, such as judgments in a rating task. \nTo illustrate this approach\, I survey a series of studies that investigate diverse illusory agreement licensing phenomena (“agreement attraction”) in English using untimed acceptability judgment measures (joint work with Charles Clifton\, Christopher Hammerly\, Joshua Levy\, and Adrian Staub). I report several results. First\, untimed judgment measure mirror the patterns seen in more ‘online’ measures of sentence comprehension. Second\, the untimed judgment data exhibit surprisingly little evidence of contamination from slow\, ‘deliberative’ processes (cf. Bader & Haussler\, 2010). Third\, and perhaps most interestingly\, this analysis of the judgment data yields unique insights into the cognitive processes and representations that underly agreement attraction effects. In particular\, the judgment data lend support to models that analyze illusory agreement errors as the result of mis-identification of an agreement controller in working memory (e.g. Badecker & Kuminiak\, 2007; Wagers et al.\, 2009)\, rather than models that locate the error in a noisy representation of the morphosyntactic features of the agreement controller (e.g. Eberhard\, Cutting & Bock\, 2005).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-brian-dillon-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:SPOT (Syntax-Prosody in OT) Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nThis is a one-day IHR-sponsored workshop (Saturday\, Nov. 18\, 2017)\, called SPOT (“Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory”\, which is part of a research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic candidate sets from syntactic structure. The syntax-prosody interface is the study of how syntactic (grammatical) structures are mapped onto the prosodic structures in different languages. Several strands of work in prosodic theory have recently converged on a number of common themes\, from different directions\, broadly couched in Optimality Theory. Selkirk (2011) has developed a vastly simplified approach to the syntax-prosody mapping which distinguishes only three levels (word\, phrase\, and clause)\, and syntactic constituents are systematically made to correspond to phonological domains (“Match Theory”). In an independent line of research\, a long string of papers reaching back into the 1980s has convincingly demonstrated that recursive structures are by no means an exclusive property of syntax\, but also play a crucial role in phonology. One of the hallmarks of Match Theory is the idea that the main force interfering with syntax-prosody isomorphism is not some kind of non-isomorphic mapping algorithm flattening out the structure\, as first contemplated in SPE (Chomsky and Halle 1968\, 372) and more fully worked out in later proposals\, such as the edge-based theory built on one-sided alignment. It is rather the effect of genuine phonological wellformedness constraints on prosodic structure. \nBesides presenting the pilot SPOT program for comments\, the workshop will consist of research talks focused on the syntax-prosody interface by both invited speakers from the East Coast and Europe and Bay Area researchers. \nMore information about the IHR SPOT Research Cluster: http://ihr.ucsc.edu/portfolio/syntax-prosody-in-optimality-theory-spot/ \nPROGRAM \nSPOT Program: Saturday\, Nov. 18\, 2017 \n9:15am – 10:00am Pre-workshop coffee/tea\, bagels\, pastries and fruit \n10:00am -11:00am “Match Theory and the Asymmetry Problem: Intonational phrase marking in Stockholm Swedish” (abstract and handouts)\nShinichiro Ishihara (Lund University) \n11:15am -12:00pm “Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory” (abstract and handouts) Jenny Bellik and Nick Kalivoda (UC Santa Cruz) \n12:00pm -1:00pm Mexican buffet lunch \n1:00pm – 2:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nLisa Selkirk (UMass/Amherst) \n2:15pm – 3:00pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nNicholas Rolle (UC Berkeley) \n3:00pm -3:30pm Coffee Break \n3:30pm – 4:15pm“Syntactic Constituency Spell-Out through Match Constraints” (abstract and handouts)\nRyan Bennett\, Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)\, and Emily Elfner (York University) \n4:30pm – 6:30pm Post-workshop reception \nFor more information contact Junko Ito (ito@ucsc.edu) or Armin Mester (mester@ucsc.edu)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spot-syntax-prosody-in-ot-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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