Events
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Introduction to Little Dorrit
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa CruzWeek of Events
Sunday, January 14, 2018
- January 14, 2018 -Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Introduction to Little Dorrit
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: Introduction to Little Dorrit
Santa Cruz Pickwick Club featuring Little Dorrit The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel, beginning this January with Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit. Join us each month for conversations about the novel and guest speaker presentations to help us contextualize our readings. Santa Cruz […]
Monday, January 15, 2018
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018
- January 17, 2018 -CANCELED: Roddey Reid: “Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: Affect and Activism in the Trump Era and Beyond”
CANCELED: Roddey Reid: “Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: Affect and Activism in the Trump Era and Beyond”
Roddey Reid is Professor Emeritus of French Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Reid is the author three books including most recently of Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying: A Citizen’s Guide for the Trump Era and Beyond; of Families in Jeopardy: Regulating the Social Body in France, 1750-1910; co-editor with Sharon Traweek […]
Thursday, January 18, 2018
- January 18, 2018 -Ram Neta: “Puzzle of Transparency”
Ram Neta: “Puzzle of Transparency”
The Puzzle of Transparency As you and I are out for a walk, I notice that the sky is getting cloudier and so I ask you "do you believe that it's going to rain?" In response to this question, you normally do not pay attention to your own states of mind, but rather to the […]
Friday, January 19, 2018
- January 19, 2018 -Martina Wiltschko: “Nominal speech act structure. A personal view.”
Martina Wiltschko: “Nominal speech act structure. A personal view.”
The concept of person is in many ways tied to speech acts. This is obvious just by exploring the interpretation of pronouns: 1st person pronouns are used to refer to the speaker, 2nd person pronouns are used to refer to the addressee, and 3rd person is used for individuals other than the speech act participants. […]
Saturday, January 20, 2018
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