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SUMMARY:Layali Morocco: Jewish Songlines & Soundscapes
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Jessica Guild: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSamuel Torjman Thomas & ASEFA\nASEFA (meaning “gathering”) is led by ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist Samuel Torjman Thomas\, Ph.D. Blending vocals\, oud\, violin\, nay\, and plenty of percussion\, with songs in Hebrew\, Arabic\, Spanish\, and Ladino\, this trio ensemble traverses several North African song traditions. Drawing upon a rich intercultural mix of Hebraic and Islamic traditions\, audiences feel the heartbeat of the Maghreb. Thomas is an ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist\, and as artistic director of the New York Andalus Ensemble and ASEFA\, he journeys through a lush Mediterranean garden of songs in Hebrew\, Arabic\, Ladino\, and Spanish\, highlighting intercultural exchange in the expressive cultures of North Africa and the Middle East. Dr. Thomas teaches music\, interdisciplinary studies\, and Sephardic studies at the City University of New York. He is a frequent guest speaker at cultural institutions\, universities\, and in multi-denominational ecumenical spaces worldwide. His formal talks center on historical and cultural topics related to Sephardi-Mizraḥi Jewry. \n \nAdvanced Ticket Price – $26.25 \nDoor Ticket Price – $31.50 (half price for students) \nSponsored by the Neufeld-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nDirections and Parking:\nKuumbwa Jazz Center located at 320 Cedar St # 2\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060. Click here for directions and parking at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center: https://kuumbwajazz.org/about/directions-accommodations/ \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the The Humanities Institute at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 3\, 2020.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/samuel-torjman-thomas-asefa/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Stephanie Shih - The Nature of Lexical Categories: Consideration from Sound Symbolism
DESCRIPTION:There are many approaches to modeling lexically-conditioned phonology in current formal theories\, including lexically-indexed constraints and cophonologies. Nearly all of these existing approaches assume categorical membership in the lexical classes that condition differential phonotactics or phonological behaviors: for example\, a lexical item is either a noun or a verb\, or of one gender class or another. In this talk\, Stephanie Shih presents evidence from sound symbolic patterns that demonstrates the need for gradient membership in the lexical classes that condition phonological patterns. Case studies include cross-linguistic Pokémon names and English baseball player names and nicknames. From these cases\, Shih proposes an implementation of Maximum Entropy Harmonic Grammar with lexically-indexed constraints and gradient symbolic activations over classes that allows us to model differences in phonological patterns over both discrete and gradient class membership. This theoretical implementation is a natural extension of the scales and gradient activations that have been shown to be necessary in recent phonological theory: sound symbolic evidence highlights the necessity for such increased explanatory power in our phonological models. Crucially\, we find gradient lexically-conditioned patterns not only in sound symbolism—where they are often most obvious—but also in what is considered “core” language (e.g.\, morphosyntactic classes)\, and allowing gradient class structures in our phonological models may ultimately make for cleaner interfaces with other parts of grammar such as morphosyntax. \nPresented by the UCSC Department of Linguistics
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-stephanie-shih/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Linguistics Department":MAILTO:mjzimmer@ucsc.edu
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