Warren Sack is currently working on a book entitled “The Software Arts” (for the Software Studies series at MIT Press) where he explores an understanding of computer science as a liberal art and computer programming as a form of writing. Warren Sack is Professor of Film & Digital Media at UCSC.

Gildas Hamel’s current work is on the economy, society and religion of ancient Israel and Graeco-Roman Judaea. His research focuses on taxes, forms of labor, the competition of various groups for resources and political power, and the evolution of religious structures, including the appearance of monotheism and new notions of time. Gildas Hamel is  Senior […]

Aristea Fotopoulou works at the intersections of media & cultural studies with science & technologies studies. She has written on digital networks and feminism, information politics, knowledge production, and digital engagement. She currently explores algorithmic living and practices of data sharing. Aristea Fotopoulou is Research Fellow, University of Sussex, UK and 2014 Visiting Scholar at the […]

The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents: Steven J. Zipperstein: "How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History" Kishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance when an event in Russian Jewish life received wide hearing. The riot, leaving 49 dead, in an obscure border town, dominated headlines in the western world […]

Abstract: This talk considers the typology of word-headedness in languages with iterative stress and discusses a traditional classification of such systems—top-down vs. bottom-up (Hayes 1995)—in the context of Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy 2010). In some languages the primary stress is autonomous, having properties that are different from those of its secondary stresses, which has been used […]

This two-day event includes a poetry reading and an interdisciplinary symposium featuring graduate students, faculty, and a keynote from Johanna Drucker. Friday, January 31, 2014: Poetry reading at 6 p.m. at the Felix Kulpa Gallery Featuring Johanna Drucker with Eireene Nealand, Margaret Rhee, and Tsering Wangmo Saturday, February 1, 2014: Interdisciplinary symposium at Humanities 1, […]

Mayanthi Fernando works on religion, politics, and the secular. Her first book on the Islamic revival and French secularity will be out in 2014. Her new project examines the nexus of sex, religion, and secularism, and in particular the French state's regulation of Muslim women's sexual and religious intimacies. Mayanthi Fernando is Assistant Professor of Anthropology […]

Built into the grammatical architecture of any language we find constraints on possible structures. The processing system that uses these structures appears to have inherent preferences in how we interpret them. By looking at a domain where there exists tension between what constraint a learner might expect their language to conform to and the interpretations […]