Events
Week of Events
Ashwini Tambe: “Tropical Exceptions: Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates”
Ashwini Tambe: “Tropical Exceptions: Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates”
Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. […]
Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 1
Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 1
Organized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. The 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological, cultural, social, political, geological, biological and other forces, understood […]
*ROOM CHANGE* NOW IN 420 – Thi Nguyen: “The Gamification of Public Discourse”
*ROOM CHANGE* NOW IN 420 – Thi Nguyen: “The Gamification of Public Discourse”
The pleasures of games include, among other things, the experience of a fantasy of value clarity. In games, our goals and values are clear, quantified, and easy to apply and rank. This provides us with a particular existential balm - a momentary liberation from the ambiguities and difficult pluralities of moral life. Games instrumentalize our ends, […]
Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 2
Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 2
Organized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. The 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological, cultural, social, political, geological, biological and other forces, understood […]
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference (LURC)
Program: 1:00 PM- Refreshments 1:15 PM- Opening remarks: Amanda Rysling Session 1: Session Chair: Jennifer Bellik 1:20 PM- Madeleine King and Koy Ruguma: "Recency and Semantic Difference: Effects on Verbatim Memory" 1:45 PM- Max Tarlov: "Trans-derivational Correspondence beyond the Word Level" 2:10 PM- BREAK Session 2: Session Chair: Steven Foley 2:20 PM- Melanie Gounas: "The Syntactic Representation of Constituent Negation" 2:45 PM- Jared […]