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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Drew McLaughlin
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present\, Drew McLaughlin (Basque Center on Cognition\, Brain and Language). \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-drew-mclaughlin/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T110000
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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-5/2024-02-07/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nicole Starosielski – Socializing the Network
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Film + Digital Media \nThis 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” an infrastructure project\, an essential part of the ongoing construction of a global digital network. Building a more sustainable internet\, I show\, is not only a process of technical coordination\, of describing metrics\, and of setting standards\, but working within a globally-distributed and yet intimately connected geography. \nNicole Starosielski\, Professor of Film and Media at the University of California-Berkeley\, conducts research on global internet and media distribution\, communications infrastructures ranging from data centers to undersea cables\, and media’s environmental and elemental dimensions. Starosielski is author or co-editor of over thirty articles and five books on media\, infrastructure\, and environments\, including: The Undersea Network (2015)\, Media Hot and Cold (2021)\, Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructure (2015)\, Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment (2016)\, Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media (2021)\, as well as co-editor of the “Elements” book series at Duke University Press. \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/nicole-starosielski-socializing-the-network/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T160000
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SUMMARY:From the Roots - Favianna Rodriguez Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION: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. \nFavianna 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 text “Migration is Beautiful” mobilized in support of migrant justice. In recent years\, Rodriguez has focused on figurative work related to plants\, animals and climate justice. This exhibition asks: how do portraits of species relate to an ecology of social movements? The show is organized around local species impacted by climate change including coastal redwoods\, mountain lions\, coho salmon and butterflies\, among others. These portraits of species are in dialogue with activist posters\, demonstrating how social issues are fundamentally intertwined with environmental justice. For example\, a collaged portrait of coho salmon\, a keystone species that the Ohlone people relied on for food\, will be surrounded by posters about decolonization and food justice. Viewers will explore activism from the roots- both in terms of systemic issues impacting our world today and the actual roots of the trees that inhabit our shared local ecosystem. \nJoin us for a talk with the artist on February 7th at Stevenson Event Center. \nPresented by Cowell College. Co-Sponsored by the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, the UC Santa Cruz Institute of Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute\, and UCSC HSI Initiatives.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-the-roots-favianna-rodriguez-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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SUMMARY:Humanities Division Grad Slam Preliminary Round
DESCRIPTION: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! \nThis event is presented by UCSC’s Division of Graduate Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-division-grad-slam-preliminary-round/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T114000
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Andrea Beltrama
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: \nAndrea Beltrama\nUniversity of Pennsylvania \nspeaking on \nThe interface between pragmatic reasoning and social perception: Towards an integrative view of inferences in communication\n\nAbstract \nComprehenders systematically draw two varieties of inferences in linguistic communication: pragmatic inferences\, concerning the message conveyed by an utterance; and sociolinguistic inferences\, concerning the speaker’s identity – e.g.\, their demographic profile and personality traits. Both types of inference have been widely investigated in linguistics and beyond. Yet\, much remains to be seen on how they interact with one another — and in particular\, on whether\, and how\, comprehenders jointly rely on them when extracting information from linguistic utterances. \nIn this talk\, I consider two case studies\, each of which presents a novel perspective on this issue. In the first case study\, I present evidence from two social perception experiments suggesting that comprehenders track a speaker’s adherence to\, or violation of\, the maxims of Relevance and Informativeness — together with the contextual reasons underlying these violations — to form an impression of the speaker. In the second case study\, I present findings from two picture selection tasks suggesting that comprehenders reason about the speaker’s social identity to determine the precision with which they interpret numerical expressions. \nTaken together\, these findings unveil a bi-directional relationship between pragmatic reasoning and social perception\, calling for a view of the semantics/pragmatics interface which encompasses social distinctions between speakers; and highlighting the role of sociolinguistic knowledge in pragmatic reasoning. They also underline the value of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of inferences in linguistic communication — one that combines experimental approaches to semantics and pragmatics with insights and methods from sociolinguistics and social psychology. \n  \nJoin us in person for this special talk on Thursday\, February 8th at 11:40 am!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/andrea-beltrama-on-the-interface-between-pragmatic-reasoning-and-social-perception/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ying Yang - "Grammar\, Interaction\, and Social Context: The Evolution Story of 那na ‘that’"
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Grammar\, Interaction\, and Social Context:\nThe Evolution Story of 那na ‘that’”\nwith Ying Yang\, Ph.D.\nUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison \n\nAbstract \nFace-to-face conversation is the primordial form of human interaction and language is inherently a form of social behavior. However\, spontaneous natural conversation remains one of the least explored discourse domains in linguistics. Using corpora compiled from transcriptions of spontaneous conversations\, Yang’s research program investigates how language structures and grammatical patterns can be seen as emergent from interactional exigencies of ordinary conversation. \nThis particular talk focuses on the grammar of 那na in Mandarin Chinese conversation. Based on a 416\,000-character conversational database\, Yang examines how a demonstrative can shift from marking spatial deixis to signaling speaker stance. \nThis talk proposes a new perspective on demonstratives on a novel investigation focusing on their non-referential usages. Ying Yang shows that non-referential na is routinely used by speakers to express contrastive meaning\, encode attitudinal stances that are often disaffiliative\, taking the form of disagreements\, challenges\, or criticisms. The analysis also illustrates that the non-referential usages of na\, though highly grammaticalized\, are linked to the deictic meanings of the demonstrative. In doing so\, this talk elucidates how looking at language in everyday conversation affects our understanding of the intricacies of grammar. \n  \nJoin us for this special research talk on Thursday\, February 8th at 5:00pm!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ying-yang-grammar-interaction-and-social-context/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240209T090000
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SUMMARY:Cancelled - Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Eight - Hierarchy and Diversity (Paradiso 3; 27–29 & 32)
DESCRIPTION: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 Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n  \nPaola Nasti is Associate Professor of Italian Literature at Northwestern University. She has also taught\, as an associate\, in the United Kingdom. Her research focuses on Dante’s biblical\, religious and theological culture. In addition to a monograph on the Solomonic tradition (Favole d’amore e “saver profondo”: la tradizione salomonica in Dante. Angelo Longo Editore\, Ravenna 2007) she has published numerous essays on the scriptural theme: ‘Vocabuli d’autori e di Scienze e di libri ‘(Conv. II xii 5): Dante’s wisdom paths’\, in Ledda\, G. (ed.) Dante’s Bible: Mystical experience\, prophecy and biblical theology in Dante. Centro Dantesco Onlus\, Ravenna\, 2011); ‘Dante and ecclesiology’\, in: Hoeness\, C. E. and Treherne\, M. (eds.) Reviewing Dante’s Theology\, Peter Lang\,2013)’; ‘The stigmata and the love of the poor man of Assisi: Dante’s reinterpretations of a medieval topos’\, in Christian Dante and religious culture in medieval Italy\, Ravenna\, Longo\, 2018); ‘The triumph of Christ: anti-pietism in Comedy’\, in Proceedings of the Conference “Theologus Dantes. Theological themes in the works and in the first commentaries”\, Venice\, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari\, 2018\, pp. 103-138).; ‘Religious Culture’\, in Cambridge Companion to Dante’s Commedia\, ed. by Z. G. Baranski and S. Gilson\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2018\, pp. 158-172.in Proceedings of the Conference “Theologus Dantes. Theological themes in the works and in the first commentaries”\, Venice\, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari\, 2018\, pp. 103-138).; ‘Religious Culture’\, in Cambridge Companion to Dante’s Commedia\, ed. by Z. G. Baranski and S. Gilson\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2018\, pp. 158-172.in Proceedings of the Conference “Theologus Dantes. Theological themes in the works and in the first commentaries”\, Venice\, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari\, 2018\, pp. 103-138).; ‘Religious Culture’\, in Cambridge Companion to Dante’s Commedia\, ed. by Z. G. Baranski and S. Gilson\, Cambridge\, Cambridge University Press\, 2018\, pp. 158-172. \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-episode-eight-hierarchy-and-diversity-paradiso-3-27-29-32/
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