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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet)
DESCRIPTION:Crossings Film Series \nOver 2017-18\, the CLRC and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is proud to present “Crossings\,” a quarterly film series about migration and the Mediterranean. We open with the 2014 documentary\, “Io sto con la sposa\,” winner of the Human Rights Nights Award at the Venice International Film Festival. All films are subtitled and screenings are free and open to the public. \nIo sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet\, 2013) \nTwo outsiders become unlikely friends in this drama from filmmaker Andrea Segre. Shun Li (Zhao Tao) is a thirtysomething single mother from China who has come to Italy in the hope of providing a better life for herself and her son. However\, Shun Li has partnered with an unscrupulous employment agency that shifts her from job to job and makes it difficult for her to pay her fees so she can make enough money to bring her son to Italy. She works as a barmaid in a shabby waterfront tavern in the fishing village of Chioggia; there\, she meets Bepi (Rade Serbedzija)\, an exile from Eastern Europe who has a fondness for poetry and pens doggerel verse himself. Shun Li shares with Bepi stories of Qu Yuan\, China’s most celebrated poet\, and the two strike up a friendship that has the potential to become something more. However\, the Chioggia natives make it clear that they don’t approve of Shun Li and Bepi’s budding relationship\, especially given their suspicions about her Chinese heritage. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/io-sono-li-shun-li-poet/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
DESCRIPTION:Description:\nThis year’s program will feature fully-staged works in French\, Japanese\, Russian\, and Spanish. English super-titles will translate each of the pieces. The French segment will be devoted to scenes from Jean Giraudoux’s comic fantasy\, La Folle de Chaillot\, (The Madwoman of Chaillot) directed by Miriam Ellis\, while Spanish will present Fable\, by Samaniego\, with Marta Navarro directing her students in this study. Russian will be devoted to an original work\, Happy Dating\, Everyone\, directed by Natasha Samokhina\, who created the piece with her students and will direct. For Japanese\, we will present Music of Japan\, directed by Sakae Fujita. \nAdmission Details: \nThere is no admission charge for this unique multicultural event. Parking is available and attendants will be selling $4.00 permits in the Stevenson parking lots\, 109 and 110 from 7:15pm – 8:30pm all nights of production. \nDates:\nMay 18th – 8:00pm\nMay 19th – 8:00pm\nMay 20th – 8:00pm\nMay 21st  – 8:00pm
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T190000
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SUMMARY:Professor Emeritus Andrew Cohen: "Enhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education"
DESCRIPTION:Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics Presents \nProfessor Emeritus Andrew Cohen\nEnhancing the Role of Pragmatics in Teacher Education \nWednesday\, February 8\n210 Humanities Bldg 1\n5:15PM \nLight refreshments will be served \nThe talk starts with the premise that for many target-language (TL) learners\, the actual learning process consists of the rote memorization of lots of vocabulary and grammar rules\, sometimes or even often without the knowledge of how to make appropriate use of this information in actual communicative situations. The talk will highlight certain specific areas in TL pragmatics that are teachable but often neglected in TL instruction\, as well as some of the challenges involved in teaching this information. The talk will also include brief comment regarding the assessment of the pragmatics that is taught and strategies for students in the learning and performance of pragmatics. The speaker has been studying his 12th TL (Mandarin) for the last five years\, so he can speak from experience about pragmatic failures. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/enhancing-the-role-of-pragmatics-in-teacher-education-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160603T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160603T180000
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SUMMARY:Inverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26)
DESCRIPTION:UCSC Spanish Studies and the Department of Language and Applied Linguistics present: \nInverting the Spanish Avant Garde: Transatlantic Negotiations in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26)\nBy Vanessa Marie Fernandez (UC Santa Cruz and San Jose SU) \nFriday June 3rd\, 6:00PM\nHumanities 1\, Room 210 \nVanessa Marie Fernandez completed her PhD in Hispanic Langiages and Literatures form the University of Claifornia\, Los Angeles in 2013. She has been a lecturer at Rice University in Houston and an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Duquesne Univeristy in Pittsburgh. Currently\, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Literature Department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and will begin her new position as Assitant Professor of Spanish at San Jose State University in Fall 2016. Her book project “Bridging the Atlantic: Debating Modernity Across Argentine\, Mexican\, and Spanish Literary Magazines (1920-1930)\,” argues print culture generated a complex network o exchange amongst avant-garde movements that sheds new light on the development of Latin America and Spain’s post colonial relationship during the 1920s.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/inverting-the-spanish-avant-garde-transatlantic-negotiations-in-el-estudiante-salamanca-madrid-1925-26-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160219T120000
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SUMMARY:Allan Langdale: "Palermo: Travels in the City of Happiness"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lecture and reading by Allan Langdale (History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC)\, author of Palermo: Travels in the City of Happiness (2015). Dr. Langdale will read from his new book\, show images of Palermo’s art and architecture\, and talk about the project and the city’s history.\n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Department of Languages & Applied Linguistics\, Italian Studies\, and History of Art and Visual Culture.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/allan-langdale-palermo-travels-in-the-city-of-happiness-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151123T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151123T190000
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CREATED:20151116T183435Z
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SUMMARY:Stacey Katz Bourns: "Integrating Grammar Pedagogy within New Frameworks for Language Instruction"
DESCRIPTION:Foreign language programs in the 21st Century are in a period of transition. Many applied linguistics researchers now consider Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) to be antiquated and are initiating alternate approaches\, some more compelling than others. Central to the discussion is the always-controversial topic of grammar pedagogy. How should grammar be taught and learned? How can grammar pedagogy fit into new frameworks for teaching language that favor focusing on texts? Is metalinguistic competence a goal that should be pursued\, and\, if so\, at what level of instruction? At the core of the issue is the changing profile of students who enroll in language classes and the need to balance students’ pragmatic demands with broader programmatic goals. \nStacey Katz Bourns is Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures at Harvard University.\n  \nLight refreshments will be served.\n \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stacey-katz-bourns-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151106T140000
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SUMMARY:Joseph M. Pierce: "Writing Queer Sisterhood: The Diaries of Julia and Delfina Bunge and the Argentine Fin de Siglo (1890-1910)"
DESCRIPTION:This presentation focuses on a unique coincidence in Argentine fin de siglo (1890-1910): sisters who 1) simultaneously kept a diary for an extended period of time\, 2) actually shared\, read\, and commented on reading each other’s diaries\, and 3) though under quite different circumstances\, published these diaries subsequently. I read the diary as an interface through which textual form influences understandings of self and other in the early years of the 20th century\, arguing that it is\, in this sense\, a technology of self-making. This talk explores not simply what the diarist does\, but what discourses\, what possible modes of feeling and thinking are revealed through the process of writing and reading the diary. In particular the sister serves as critical nucleus for understanding relational subjectivity\, sibling rivalry\, and the queer potentials of lateral kinship. Examining both original manuscript notebooks and later published versions\, I show how writing and reading the diary plays a crucial role in shaping each sister’s ideological positions regarding courtship\, marriage\, and sisterhood\, and from this exploration I argue that the cultural anxiety over the division of public and private space\, and in particular women’s labor\, led each sister to stake a claim of individuality that emerges through the process of imagining herself as different\, but potentially the same as\, her sister.\n  \nJoseph M. Pierce is Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on discourses of kinship\, gender\, and sexuality in Latin America and on the intersection of Latin American and North American approaches to citizenship and belonging. He is currently drafting a book manuscript entitled Queer Kinship in the Argentine fin de siglo: La familia Bunge\, and is co-editor with Fernando Blanco and Mario Pecheny of Derechos Sexuales en el Sur: Políticas del amor y escrituras disidentes (Forthcoming\, Cuarto Propio).\n  \nLight refreshments will be served.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joseph-m-pierce-writing-queer-sisterhood-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 402
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150514T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150514T220000
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SUMMARY:15th Annual Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
DESCRIPTION:FIFTEEN YEARS AND COUNTING… \nThe Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics\, Cowell College\, and Stevenson College\, will present The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP)\, an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces\, for its 15th season. Four public performances will be held on May 14\, 15\, 16\, 17\, at 8:00PM at the Stevenson Event Center\, UCSC\, and will feature works in French\, Italian\, Japanese\, Russian\, and Spanish\, with English super-titles. The program will be directed by Language lecturers and performed by Language students. There is no admission charge\, with nearby parking at $4.00. \nThis year’s works include: (in French) THE GAP\, by Ionesco\, and a scene from THE WOULD-BE GENTLEMAN by Molière\, directed by Miriam Ellis; (in Italian) BROTHER ATM and SERENDIPITY\, by Benni\, directed by Giulia Centineo; (in Japanese) SWEET POISON\, traditional\, directed by Sakae Fujita; (in Russian) THE PATIENT\, by Dovlatov\, directed by Natalya Samokhina; (in Spanish) MISERY\, by Güiraldes\, directed by Marta Navarro. The pieces range in time from medieval and classical periods to modern-day theater\, with emphasis on their comic elements. \nOver the years\, the IP presentations have represented an important annual event for UCSC and have attracted a loyal following. In addition to those on campus\, many community members\, as well as faculty and students from high schools and Cabrillo College\, attend regularly. The English titles make the material easily accessible to audiences\, who are afforded a rare multicultural experience by the diversity of the programs. \nFor further information\, please contact lmhunter@ucsc.edu or ellisan@ucsc.edu. \nAbove: Scene from LE MALADE IMAGINAIRE (THE HYPOCHONDRIAC) by Molière\, (French) INTERNATIONAL PLAYHOUSE XIII\, Camille Charette as Angélique\, Zachary Scovel as Argan\, directed by Miriam Ellis. \nThe community is cordially invited to attend.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/15th-annual-miriam-ellis-international-playhouse-2/2015-05-14/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150422T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150422T190000
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SUMMARY:Mark Amengual: "Living in Two Languages: Lexical Effects in Bilingual Production"
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will present the results of an experiment that investigates voice onset times (VOTs) to determine if cognates enhance the cross-°©‐language phonetic influences in the speech production of a range of Spanish–English bilinguals: Spanish heritage speakers\, English heritage speakers\, advanced L2 Spanish learners\, and advanced L2 English learners. \nTo answer this question\, lexical items with considerable phonological\, semantic\, and orthographic overlap (cognates) and lexical items with no phonological overlap with their English translation equivalents (non-°©‐cognates) were examined. The results indicate that there is a significant effect of cognate status in the Spanish production of VOT by Spanish–English bilinguals. \nThese bilinguals produced /t/ with longer VOT values (more English-°©‐like) in the Spanish production of cognates compared to non-°©‐cognate words. It is proposed that the exemplar model of lexical representation (Bybee\, 2001; Pierrehumbert\, 2001) can be extended to include bilingual lexical connections by which cognates facilitate phonetic interference in the bilingual mental lexicon.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-in-two-languages-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150410T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150410T180000
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Futuristic Musical Poetry with Luciano Chessa
DESCRIPTION:An evening with Italian composer\, performer\, and musicologist Luciano Chessa. Chessa will perform Piedigrotta (a Futurist musical poem). Chessa is the author of Luigi Russolo\, Futurist: Noise\, Visual Arts\, and the Occult (UC\, 2012)\, the first English-language monograph dedicated to Russolo and the art of Noise. He has been performing futurist sound poetry for well over 10 years. He has been active in Europe\, the U.S.\, Australia\, and South America as a practitioner of world avantgarde music; his scholarly areas include both 20th-century and late-14th-century music. Compositions include a piano and percussion duet after Pier Paolo Pasoliniʼs “Petrolio.” \nReception to follow.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-of-futuristic-musical-poetry-with-luciano-chessa-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150225T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150225T190000
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Lain: "Content-Based Design Using Constructivist Connectionist Principles"
DESCRIPTION:In this	talk I discuss the challenges involved in designing content-based curricula for	foreign	language courses. I will illustrate the main concepts by focusing on the example of	a first-year Spanish course developed for The Middlebury Institute of International Studies	at Monterey (MIIS)\, whose Language Studies division follows an	exclusively content-based model	of instruction.	Though I	will be	speaking about	a strict interpretation	of content-based instruction (where only authentic target language materials are used)\, the information presented will be easily	applicable to any foreign language learning context where the instructor seeks	to incorporate authentic content as part of the curriculum. \nIn order to plan effectively for a content-­‐based course\, it is important to establish and clarify early on a set of guidelines for how the curriculum should be structured. I argue that an understanding of language as expressed through the perspectives of constructivism and connectionism not only lends support to the validity of content-­‐based methodology but also can provide clear directives for the kinds of activities instructors can use to engage students.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stephanie-lain-content-based-design-using-constructivist-connectionist-principles-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150128T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150128T183000
DTSTAMP:20260417T085803
CREATED:20150115T200129Z
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SUMMARY:Julio Torres: "Individual Differences in Prior Language Experience:  The Heritage Language Bilingual"
DESCRIPTION:Individual differences play a key role in explaining variability in learning outcomes among adult second language learners. Researchers have begun examining the additional language learning experiences of learners with different profiles including bilinguals\, aging learners and learners with low literacy levels in their first language. In this talk\, I will present briefly data from three studies that address the prior language learning experience of adult heritage bilinguals\, or speakers who grew up speaking a non-English language (Spanish) at home and in their communities. These studies entertain the following general questions: (1). Are heritage bilinguals the true agents of language change?; (2). Do heritage bilinguals demonstrate an advantage in cognitive control?; and (3). Are task-based pedagogical interventions effective in promoting heritage bilinguals’ (re) learning of the heritage language? The results of these studies imply that the experience of heritage bilinguals lead to various learning and cognitive outcomes. \nJulio Torres is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Irvine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julio-torres-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141205T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141205T183000
DTSTAMP:20260417T085803
CREATED:20141121T203839Z
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SUMMARY:Thor Sawin and Jason Martel: "Fostering foreign language learners’ speaking through ongoing feedback"
DESCRIPTION:It is now well accepted in foreign language pedagogy that assessment is not solely an end-­‐of-­‐unit activity. Rather\, it is important for teachers to monitor learners’ language development using a variety of techniques throughout the course of a unit of study. Among the many skills to be assessed in foreign language classrooms\, speaking presents unique challenges. First\, because spoken language samples immediately disappear\, it is harder for teachers to give meaningful feedback that can be immediately applied. Second\, speaking tends to be assessed formally and only a few times in a term\, resulting in unhelpful\, institutionally-­‐required grades that neither prompt learners to produce more language based on feedback nor motivate them by recognizing the progress they have made. With these considerations in mind\, our talk will: \n• Define speaking/oral proficiency \n• Distinguish between formative and summative assessment \n• Discuss the use of speaking portfolios as a motivational and developmental strategy \n• Discuss strategies for assessing speaking throughout and at the end of a unit of study\, in ways that learners are able to keep track of and take ownership over\n  \nLight refreshments will be served.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thor-sawin-and-jason-martel-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141029T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141029T183000
DTSTAMP:20260417T085803
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SUMMARY:Bryan Donaldson: "Information structure and word order in medieval Occitan"
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I draw on elements of discourse analysis and information structure–specifically topic-marking–to address a long-standing problem in the syntax of Old Occitan\, a medieval Romance language spoken in what is now the south of France. In Old Occitan\, the position of object and adverbial clitic (weak\, atonic) pronouns remains incompletely understood (Wanner 2010). I analyze clitic position specifically in affirmative main declarative sentences that contain overt preverbal subjects. In this context\, clitics are either preverbal\, as in (1)\, or post verbal\, as in (2)\, with no apparent semantic distinction.\n  \n(1) E.N Constantis s’en anet.\nand.Sir Constantine himself.from-there went\n‘And Sir Constantine left.’ (Razo of 80\,20 & 80\,32 §8; Boutière 1964: 92) \n(2) E.N Guilhem anet. s’en.\nand.Sir Guillaume went himself.from-there\n‘And Sir Guillaume left.’ (Razo of 208\,1\, §34; Boutière 1964: 325)\n  \nPrevious analyses have concluded that this variation is random (Mériz 1978) or du to regional or dialectal variation (Hinzelin 2007). Neither approach satisfactorily addresses the underlying grammar or the principles underlying the distribution of the variants appears. The present analysis draws on the discourse-functional notion of topic (e.g.\, Reinhart 1981) as well as theoretical claims about the clausal left periphery in medieval Romance (Benincà 2006). I report empirical data from the complete troubadour biographies (vidas and razos; 13th-14th centuries) and the vida of Saint Douceline (early 14th century). Results from 470 subject-verb declaratives establish that the subject in (2) is left-dislocated\, albeit covertly so. I argue that (2) is one of several instantiations of subject left-dislocation in Old Occitan and that it is both functionally and formally distinct from (1). More precisely\, (1) signals topic continuity\, whereas (2) is a shifting topic.\n  \nBryan Donaldson is Assistant Professor of Languages and French Applied Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bryan-donaldson-information-structure-and-word-order-in-medieval-occitan-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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