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Humanities 1, Room 202
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Stephanie Montgomery: "Convicts and Mothers: Gender, Criminality, and the Prison in China, 1927-1953"
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
Free1984 — Beyond the Trauma
Humanities 1, Room 202Thirty years ago saw the culmination of increasing social conflict in Punjab, a Sikh-majority state in India. In 1984, the government of India launched a military operation on the Sikhs' central religious site, aimed at militants but also ensnaring innocent pilgrims. Later that year, Sikh bodyguards assassinated India's Prime Minister in retribution. This was followed […]
FreeErica Smeltzer: "Porous Time in the City of Gdansk/Danzig"
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
FreeKen Waltzer Seminar: A Holocaust Micro-History
Humanities 1, Room 202Professor Kenneth Waltzer is currently director of the Jewish studies program at Michigan State University. His interests cover American social and political history, including urban, labor, and minority history, immigration and social relations in the United States and elsewhere, and modern Jewish history, including the study of anti-Semitism and of the Holocaust. His major current […]
Dai Jinhua: Seminar on Still Life, directed by Jia Zhangke
Humanities 1, Room 202Dai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24 We are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua, who will be on campus for a series of events, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics, and her writing on cinema, feminism, Marxism, revolutionary movements of the sixties, class, and […]
Brian Catlos: "Islamic Spain and the Culture of the West: From al-Andalus to Bob Dylan and Bill Gates"
Humanities 1, Room 202What do Bob Dylan and Bill Gates owe to medieval Islam? More than you might think. From the computing to rock and roll much of what we consider emblematic of Western Civilization was in fact adapted from the world of Islam in the Middle Ages. The particular historical circumstances of Muslim Spain made this the […]
Silvia Perpiñan: "Microparametric variation among Romance languages: the L2 acquisition of Spanish locative and existential constructions by Catalan and Italian speakers"
Humanities 1, Room 202Abstract: Selection of copula verbs in Spanish is a classic challenging area for L2 learners. Even so, it has received moderate attention on SLA research, and most of the studies have focused on the acquisition of the semantic and pragmatic distinctions between ser and estar, particularly when combined with adjectives (Bruhn de Garavito & Valenzuela, […]
Gabriela Zapata: "Investigating the Connection between Learning and Assessment: Formative Assessment in Intermediate L2 Spanish Classes"
Humanities 1, Room 202Abstract: This paper investigates the connection between learning and assessment by examining the implementation of ACTFL’s Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) in intermediate, L2 Spanish classes. There were 880 students who participated in this classroom-based study. This presentation will discuss the following: 1) the theoretical and pedagogical bases of IPA; 2) the materials and tasks that […]
Research Proposal Writing Workshop for Faculty and PIs
Humanities 1, Room 202Goal: Guide Humanities faculty on the processes and resources available when submitting a Humanities research proposal and post-award considerations Presenters: Irena Polić, Cayla McEwen, Anne Callahan, Lisa Oman To sign up for this session, please RSVP to: annem@ucsc.edu
Marcela Depiante: "Preposition Stranding in Heritage Speakers of Spanish: Implications for the Interface Hypothesis"
Humanities 1, Room 202Abstract: In this talk, we discuss the properties of Heritage Languages by examining Preposition Stranding in the Spanish of Heritage speakers versus monolingual speakers of Spanish. We discuss the implications of this work for the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2000, Tsimpli and Sorace 2006) as applied to Heritage speakers (Montrul 2009, Montrul & Polinsky 2011) according […]