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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year\, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two\, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book. \n \nCharles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made\, not born\, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography\, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge\, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella\, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman\, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult\, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-3/
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SUMMARY:Ariel Chan - "Bilingualism in Context: The Role of Language Experience and Cultural Identity in Language Processing"
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Bilingualism in Context: The Role of Language Experience and Cultural Identity in Language Processing”\nwith Ariel Chan\, Ph.D.\nStanford University \n\nAbstract \nBilingualism is inherently a social phenomenon with variation. Sociolinguistic research (e.g.\, Chen\, 2008; Lo\, 1999; Milroy & Wei\, 1995) has demonstrated that bilinguals employ code-switching for identity construction. Meanwhile\, recent psycholinguistic research (e.g.\, Beatty-Martinez et al.\, 2020; Kaan et al.\, 2020; Treffers-Daller et al.\, 2020) has emerged to consider individual differences within interactional contexts and social networks. \nHow do sociocultural factors\, such as language experience and cultural identity\, impact bilinguals’ cognitive and language processing?  \nWhat insights about language processing can we gain from cross-disciplinary psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic research? \nIn this talk\, Ariel Chan will explore these two questions by examining code-switching among three groups of Cantonese-English bilinguals with diverse language experience and cultural identity from an integrated psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspective. To begin\, she will present behavioral data from three experiments\, examining how language experience and cultural identity modulate code-switching comprehension and production within a controlled laboratory context. In the second part of the talk\, Chan will focus on naturalistic code-switching data in conversations. Using data from a map task\, she will demonstrate how variation in language experience and cultural identity is reflected in the bilinguals’ code-switching patterns. The synthesis of experimental and qualitative data highlights the significant roles of both language experience and cultural identity in shaping cognitive and linguistic processes\, underscoring the importance of incorporating sociocultural contexts into bilingualism research. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ariel-chan-bilingualism-in-context/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Ross Gay & Chris Mattingly
DESCRIPTION:FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome bestselling author Ross Gay (The Book of Delights\, Inciting Joy) and local poet Chris Mattingly for an evening of poetry\, plus a Q&A and a book signing. \nRoss Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding\, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude\, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays\, The Book of Delights\, was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller. His new collection of essays\, Inciting Joy\, was released by Algonquin in October of 2022. \n  \nChris Mattingly is a poet in Santa Cruz. He is the author of two full-length collections of poetry\, Scuffletown (Typecast\, 2013) and The Catalyst (Pickpocket\, 2018) as well as over two dozen limited-run chapbooks and artist’ books. His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in The Greensboro Review\, Louisville Review\, Trigger\, Lumberyard\, Still\, Some Call it Ballin’\, and Forklift\, OHIO. Chris is co-founding editor of alla testa\, a kitchen press devoted to producing far out field recordings\, hand-made artist’ books\, and letter press chapbooks. Some of his work is on display at thepoetchrismattingly.com.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-reading-with-ross-gay-chris-mattingly-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T110000
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-01-31/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Donna Haraway – Making Kin: Lynn Margulis in Sympoiesis with Sibling Scientists
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations \nSympoiesis is a simple word; it means “making with.” We live in a profoundly sympoietic world. This talk begins with Lynn Margulis (1938-2011)\, a multi-faceted biologist who co-founded the view of Earth as Gaia\, a planet with wildly improbable gas ratios and with sustained\, unlikely equilibria that only living beings could account for. Margulis thought that if bacteria had not already accomplished something\, it was hardly worth doing. Indebted to Margulis\, I explore the work of three contemporary biologists who together demonstrate the crucial game-changing ideas and research practices essential to partial healing on a damaged planet. The talk concludes by moving more deeply to naturecultures in the sympoiesis of the living and the dead and the vital practices of strong mourning. \nDonna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. She earned her PhD in Biology at Yale in 1972 and writes and teaches in science and technology studies\, feminist theory\, and multispecies studies. She has served as thesis adviser for over 60 doctoral students in several disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas. At UCSC\, she is an active participant in the Science and Justice Research Center and Center for Cultural Studies. \nAttending to the intersection of biology with culture and politics\, Haraway’s work explores the string figures composed by science fact\, science fiction\, speculative feminism\, speculative fabulation\, science and technology studies\, and multispecies worlding. Her books include Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016); Manifestly Haraway (2016); When Species Meet (2008); The Companion Species Manifesto (2003); The Haraway Reader (2004); Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium (1997\, 2nd ed 2018); Simians\, Cyborgs\, and Women (1991); Primate Visions (1989); and Crystals\, Fabrics\, and Fields (1976\, 2004). Her books and articles are translated into many languages. Fabrizio Terravova made a feature-length film\, titled Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival\, ( 2016)\, and Diana Toucedo made Camille & Ulysse with Haraway and Vinciane Despret. With Adele Clarke she co-edited Making Kin Not Population (Prickly Paradigm Press\, 2018)\, which addresses questions of human numbers\, feminist anti-racist reproductive and environmental justice\, and multispecies flourishing.  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/january-31-donna-haraway-making-kin-lynn-margulis-in-sympoiesis-with-sibling-scientists/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Articulating linguistic prosody: representation and choreography”\nwith Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee\nUniversity of Michigan \n\nAbstract \nDuring a communicative act\, language users adeptly control and coordinate intricate movements of vocal tract organs\, including the lips\, tongue\, and larynx\, to craft linguistic messages. The spatiotemporal patterning of these vocal tract actions is systematically governed by how words are grouped into phrases and how important (prominent) words within phrases are highlighted in the language being spoken. \nIn this talk\, Cynthia Yoonjeong Lee will share insights from a series of experimental studies that leverage quantitative approaches to investigate 1) the articulatory co-expression of phrasal and segmental tone\, 2) prosodic structure in multiple modalities\, and 3) articulatory and prosodic accommodation observed in dyadic interaction. \nFindings shed light on the seamless integration of linguistic prosodic structure into multimodal speech production processes\, with broader implications for typological generalization and variation\, thereby enriching phonetic and linguistic theory. \n  \nJoin us for this in-person talk on Thursday\, February 1st at 11:40 am. \n We look forward to seeing you at the talk!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cynthia-yoonjeong-lee-articulating-linguistic-prosody-representation-and-choreography/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zhiying Qian - “Verb Bias and Plausibility in Native and Non-native Sentence Processing”
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Verb Bias and Plausibility in Native and Non-native Sentence Processing”\nwith Zhiying Qian\, Ph.D.\nFlorida State University \n\nAbstract \nThe influence of the properties of a first language (Mandarin\, Korean) on the comprehension of sentences in a second language (English) was investigated in a series of self-paced reading experiments. \nExperiment 1 compared advanced native Mandarin- and Korean-speaking learners of English with native English speakers on how they resolved a temporary ambiguity (e.g.\, The referees warned [that] the spectators would probably get too rowdy.). The temporary ambiguity concerned whether the noun (the spectator) following the verb (warned) was the direct object or the subject of an embedded clause. Results showed that both higher and lower proficiency L1-Mandarin learners could use verb bias cues\, but only higher proficiency L1-Korean learners could do so\, indicating that L1 word order (Mandarin SVO; Korean SOV) influences how quickly L2 learners learn word-order-dependent cues about L2 structures. \nExperiment 2 added plausibility manipulation\, and the results showed that neither native speakers nor L2 learners used plausibility cues\, challenging the claim that L2 learners rely primarily on lexical-semantic cues during real-time sentence processing. \nExperiment 3 examined how native Mandarin speakers process this type of sentence in Mandarin and showed that Mandarin speakers were sensitive to verb bias but not to plausibility\, contrasting claims that Mandarin speakers rely heavily on plausibility.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zhiying-qian-verb-bias-and-plausibility/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Undergraduate debut novelists Chiara Barzini & Rebecca Rukeyser
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\nChiara Barzini is a screen\, fiction\, and journalism writer who was born in Rome and raised as a teenager in Los Angeles\, where she became obsessed with canyons\, quartz\, and the Grateful Dead. When she moved to New York she steered her fascinations towards the discovery that a huge slab of granite beneath the city of Manhattan is the reason why nobody there is able to walk or think slowly. The absence of a mineral subterranean life and psychedelia in the city of Rome\, made her return to the homeland a bit harsh\, but opened her up to new interests including: abandoned castles and the nightlife of cattle. \nShe lives in Rome with her partner Luca\, their children Sebastiano and Anita\, two cats\, and one dog. \nRebecca Rukeyser is the author of the novel The Seaplane on Final Approach (2022; Doubleday USA/ Granta Books UK). Her work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, The Believer\, Granta\, The Guardian\, and Zyzzyva\, among others\, and was awarded the Berlin Senate Endowment for Non-German Literature. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Originally from Davis\, California\, Rebecca has lived and worked in South Korea\, Japan\, Turkey and China. \nShe currently lives in Germany\, where she teaches creative writing at Bard College Berlin.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-undergraduate-debut-novelists-chiara-barzini-rebecca-rukeyser/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:What Actually Happened in 1619: The Origins of Slavery in North America
DESCRIPTION:The New York Times’s The 1619 Project sparked controversy and conversation across the United States about the history and legacies of slavery. The project drew its name from a date\, 1619\, connected to the origins of American slavery\, and its publication coincided with the four-hundredth anniversary of that event. \nBut what actually happened in 1619? The essays collected in The 1619 Project and the important public conversations that followed only touch on the events of that year\, or even on the slave trade more generally. The 1619 Project focuses crucial attention on “arguing that slavery and its legacy have profoundly shaped modern American life\,” with essays on slavery’s long-term impacts on American democracy\, capitalism\, incarceration\, and even modern transportation. \nExploring these modern legacies is crucial\, but many people still have only hazy notions of why 1619 was a key turning point. \nThis public event brings three historians of slavery together—one focused on the importance of slavery to colonial empires\, one focused on captive experiences and health in the slave trade\, and one focused on the introduction of African maritime culture (and surfing!) into the Americas—to wrestle with the question: What actually happened in 1619? \nJoin Professors Elise Mitchell (Princeton)\, Kevin Dawson (UC Merced)\, and Greg O’Malley (UC Santa Cruz) as we explore this issue in a free public forum. \n \n  \nEvent Parking:\n– A valid UCSC permit -OR- ParkMobile payment is required to park in all parking spaces on campus.\n– If parking lot attendants are on site\, guests can obtain a free permit to parking in lot 126. Attendants are scheduled to be on site from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM for this event. Otherwise\, purchase a permit using the ParkMobile app. \nThis event is presented by the Humanities Institutes and funded by a UC-MRPI Grant.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-actually-happened-in-1619-the-origins-of-slavery-in-north-america/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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SUMMARY:Before Justice: Meister's Legacies of Critique
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness Department is delighted to invite you for an upcoming celebration of Professor Robert Meister\, who has been teaching at UC Santa Cruz for 50 years! \nPlease join us on Friday\, February 2nd for an afternoon of discussion reflecting on Professor Meister’s research and teaching contributions\, to be followed by a reception at the Cowell Provost House. \nDiscussion will run from 2 to 5:30 pm and reception begins at 6:00 pm.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/before-justice-meisters-legacies-of-critique/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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