Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 4, 2024
No events on this day.
Monday, February 5, 2024
No events on this day.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
- February 6, 2024Linguistics Colloquia: Drew McLaughlin
Linguistics Colloquia: Drew McLaughlin
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present, Drew McLaughlin (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language). Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
- February 7, 2024 -THI Coffee Hour
- February 7, 2024 -Nicole Starosielski – Socializing the Network
- February 7, 2024 -From the Roots – Favianna Rodriguez Artist Talk
- February 7, 2024 -Humanities Division Grad Slam Preliminary Round
THI Coffee Hour
The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students, faculty, staff, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays, 11am to noon. We 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 […]
Nicole Starosielski – Socializing the Network
Co-sponsored by Film + Digital Media This talk is a story about the ways that global digital infrastructure, especially the data centers and subsea cable networks that form the backbone of the internet, are produced out of tight-knit relationships that can weather geopolitical transitions, economic competition, and corporate tensions. I describe the process of “socializing” […]
From the Roots – Favianna Rodriguez Artist Talk
The Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition Favianna Rodriguez: Power From The Roots opening January 9 and running through March 9, 2024. Favianna Rodriguez is an Oakland based activist and artist beloved for her work tied to social justice movements, such as her iconic image of a butterfly with the […]
Humanities Division Grad Slam Preliminary Round
Come out and support Humanities graduate students competing in their Grad Slam preliminary round for a chance to advance as a finalist to Grad Slam on March 2 at the Kuumbwa! This event is presented by UCSC's Division of Graduate Studies.
Thursday, February 8, 2024
- February 8, 2024Linguistics Colloquia: Andrea Beltrama
- February 8, 2024 -Ying Yang – “Grammar, Interaction, and Social Context: The Evolution Story of 那na ‘that’”
Linguistics Colloquia: Andrea Beltrama
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: Andrea Beltrama University of Pennsylvania speaking on The interface between pragmatic reasoning and social perception: Towards an integrative view of inferences in communication Abstract Comprehenders systematically draw two varieties of inferences in linguistic communication: pragmatic inferences, concerning the message conveyed by an utterance; and sociolinguistic inferences, concerning […]
Ying Yang – “Grammar, Interaction, and Social Context: The Evolution Story of 那na ‘that’”
The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: “Grammar, Interaction, and Social Context: The Evolution Story of 那na ‘that’” with Ying Yang, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison Abstract Face-to-face conversation is the primordial form of human interaction and language is inherently a form of social behavior. However, spontaneous natural conversation remains […]
Friday, February 9, 2024
- February 9, 2024 -Cancelled – Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Eight – Hierarchy and Diversity (Paradiso 3; 27–29 & 32)
Cancelled – Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven – Episode Eight – Hierarchy and Diversity (Paradiso 3; 27–29 & 32)
Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary, theological, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire […]
Saturday, February 10, 2024
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