Marilyn Westerkamp is Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. Dinner reception follows at the Stevenson Provost House. This event is cosponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the History Department.

NEGATION IS A PERVASIVE FEATURE of natural language and for the most part, the linguistic and psycholinguistic literature takes it to be a categorical, binary notion: the sentence “Sue left” is positive, while the sentence “Sue didn’t leave” is negative because of the sentential negation “didn’t.” At the same time, sentences like “Anna answered none […]

What's driving this murderous U.S. policy in Honduras? And how are the Hondurans still rising up in resistance? Since the June 2009 military coup that deposed democratically-elected President Manuel Zeleya, the U.S. has been supporting a repressive regime that continues to commit massive human rights violations. Honduras now has the highest murder rate in the […]

Although Mitsukoshi, Japan's preeminent department store, did its best to rework luxury and play for the total war state through such efforts as a fashion spread on Vichy French style, the state's demands stripped the retailer bare by 1945. Yet opposing "luxury" and "war" gives Mitsukoshi and unwarranted alibi: collaboration with imperialism had been hither […]

"Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Era of Radical Authenticity" Professor Phillip L. Hammock will present on findings that challenge traditional scientific paradigms—historically rooted in static, binary notions of gender and sexual identity—and call for new understandings of identity, community, and stigma. The twenty-first century is a time of heightened recognition of diversity in gender, sexuality, […]