Events
Week of Events
Sunday, April 28, 2019
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Monday, April 29, 2019
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019
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Wednesday, May 1, 2019
- May 1, 2019 -Nidhi Mahajan: “Moorings: Trade Networks and States in the Western Indian Ocean”
Nidhi Mahajan: “Moorings: Trade Networks and States in the Western Indian Ocean”
Sailing vessels or dhows have long connected different parts of the western Indian Ocean, transporting goods, and people across South Asia, the Middle East and East Africa. These dhows now function as an economy of arbitrage, servicing minor ports in times of conflict. This talk focuses on the contemporary dhow trade, centered in port […]
Thursday, May 2, 2019
- May 2, 2019 -Paolo Gerbaudo, The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy
Paolo Gerbaudo, The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy
Paolo Gerbaudo is the Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King's College, London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism (2012), The Mask and the Flag: Citizenism and Global Protest (2017), and Digital Parties: Political Organization and Online Democracy (2018). From the movements behind Bernie […]
Friday, May 3, 2019
- May 3, 2019 -The Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture: Alex Purves
The Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture: Alex Purves
Carl Deppe was a charismatic young man and a promising student. In 1985 he was a sophomore at UCSC, studying Greek and ancient philosophy. While returning from a rock concert, he was killed by a drunk driver on Highway 17. His parents, George and Patricia Deppe, along with his friends, established this annual lecture series […]
Saturday, May 4, 2019
- May 4, 2019 -SPOT Research Cluster Workshop
SPOT Research Cluster Workshop
SPOT (Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory) is part of an NSF-funded research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic structure candidate sets from syntactic (grammatical) structure in different languages. SPOT aims to deepen our understanding of the relationship between grammatical structures on the one hand, and how sentences are pronounced on the other, […]