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Elliott Moreton: “Implicit and Explicit Learning of Phonotactic Patterns”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: What properties are shared by the processes used for learning linguistic and non-linguistic patterns? What properties are different? Research on non-linguistic (mainly visual) pattern learning has found distinct implicit and explicit processes which have different computational architectures, are facilitated by different experimental conditions, and differ in sensitivity to different pattern types. Is the same […]
FreeCatherine Ramírez: “'Our Porto Ricans': Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1898-1923"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCatherine Ramírez works on 20th-century Mexican-American history, histories of migration and assimilation, Latino literature, feminist theory, and comparative ethnic studies. She is writing a book on the history of assimilation in the U.S. and was recently awarded a grant from the Mellon Foundation for her work on migration, belonging, and non-citizenship. Ramírez is Associate Professor […]
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Workshop with Miriam Posner: "How Did They Make That?"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDirections in Digital Humanities presents: Miriam Posner UCLA Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Exploring Lobotomy’s Visual Culture Workshop: How Did They Make That? The catch-all term “digital project” can refer to a daunting array of technologies and methods. For a newcomer (or even an experienced practitioner), it can be hard to know where to start. […]
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Miriam Posner: “Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Exploring Lobotomy's Visual Culture”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the University Library Between 1936 and 1967, Walter Freeman, a prominent neurologist, lobotomized as many as 3,500 Americans. Freeman was also an obsessive photographer, taking patients' photographs before their operations and tracking them down years — even decades — later. In this presentation, Miriam Posner details her efforts to understand why Freeman was […]
FreeLeadership for Social Justice: A Sikh-American Perspective
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis one-day workshop provides insights and training for individuals who wish to lead social change efforts. The workshop will be conducted by the Sikh Coalition, a community-based organization that works toward the realization of civil and human rights for all people, including Sikh-Americans. It will include sessions devoted to lobbying, media, legal remedies, and a […]
FreePhD+: Internship Info Session
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn the next couple of months, the IHR will be launching a new public fellowship/internship program for our graduate students, allowing them to work in organizations and companies in the area during the summer, while getting fellowship support from the IHR. If you are interested in learning about this program, please join us for the […]
FreeJasmine Syedullah: "‘Not Contraband, but Soldier': Against the Domestic Violence of National Security"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJasmine Syedullah’s current project, “No Selves to Defend: Fugitive Justice and Black Feminist Loopholes of Abolition” is a political theory of abolition rooted in the antislavery writings of Harriet Jacobs, the anti-prison testimonies of political prisoners Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and narratives from the 1971 uprising at Alderson Federal Reformatory for Women. Syedullah is a […]
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Berel Lang: “Primo Levi: Chemist, Survivor, Writer”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOn Wednesday, November 4, Professor Berel Lang of Wesleyan University, author of Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life, will visit our campus and offer a lecture entitled "Primo Levi: Chemist, Survivor, Writer." Professor Lang's many books include Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide (University of Chicago Press, 1990), The Anatomy of Philosophical Style (Basil Blackwell, 1990), Holocaust Representation: Art within […]
FreeLinguistic Colloquium: Ivano Caponigro
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistic Colloquium: Free-Choice Free Relative Clauses in Italian and Romanian English, Italian, and Romanian (and many other languages) allow for standard free relative clauses, i.e., non-interrogative wh-clauses with the same distribution and interpretation as definite DPs or PPs (e.g. Elena goes ). The same three languages (and many others) also allow for a kind of free relative in which […]
FreeRita Lucarelli: "Ghosts and the Restless Dead in Ancient Egypt"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEVENT PHOTOS: Rita Lucarelli Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley "Ghosts and the Restless Dead in Ancient Egypt" Center for Ancient Studies at UC Santa Cruz The beliefs in ghosts and spirits of the dead are widespread in world religions. In ancient Egypt, however, there is a certain inconsistency when mentioning the manifestations of the […]
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