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Humanities 1, Room 202
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Berenice Darwich: "Continuity and discontinuity in syntactic patterns in New York City. A look at co-referential complex sentences"
Humanities 1, Room 202Speaker: Berenice Darwich, Hispanic Linguistics, CUNY Colleges; New York, New York. Abstract: The variable phenomenon of subject expression, specifically in the second clause of co-referential complex sentences, is analyzed in a subset of interviews of Mexican and Dominican Spanish speakers from the Otheguy and Zentella corpus of Spanish in New York City. By taking into […]
National Endowment for the Humanities Application Writing Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 202Daniel Sack, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs, will provide an overview of NEH programs and initiatives, offer strategies for application writing, and facilitate a mock peer review panel session. NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, […]
U.S. Fulbright IIE Information Session
Humanities 1, Room 202The Graduate Division cordially invites undergraduate and graduate students to an information session on the U.S. Fulbright IIE fellowship program. If you are interested in applying for a 2014-2015 Fulbright U. S. Student Program Grant or English Teaching Assistantship plan to attend this information session. Link to the competition: http://www.iie.org/fulbright Presenters will include: Past successful […]
Carol Lynn McKibben: "Gender and Italian Immigration in California: A Monterey Case Study"
Humanities 1, Room 202Regional context is of critical importance in understanding processes of migration. As well, gender analysis complicates group migration experiences. Dr. McKibben's talk will focus both on the economic and social environment of California and on the role of women in families that made for a migration experience for Sicilians that counters the usual narratives of […]
Clive Sinclair: “The Jew in the Crown”
Humanities 1, Room 202“The Jew in the Crown” will offer a brief examination of the ambiguous role of the semitic anti-hero in English literature; anti-heroes such as Shylock, Fragin, and Svengali, whose half-life continues to radiate. Clive Sinclair has published 13 books of fiction, travel, and autobiography, some of which have been given prizes. Early in his career […]
Craig Dworkin: “The Politics of the Work”
Humanities 1, Room 202In Partnership with Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and the Literature Department presents: Craig Dworkin for a Lecture on Poetics. Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito […]
Mary Paster: “Phonologically Conditioned Morphology”
Humanities 1, Room 202Mary Paster (PhD UC Berkeley, 2006) is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her research focuses on phonology and morphology, and their interface. She specializes in the study of African languages, particularly their tone systems. She has published in such journals as Phonology, […]
A Seminar with Jean Franco
Humanities 1, Room 202To obtain a copy of the paper that will be discussed at the seminar, please contact Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu). Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College, London University. […]
Jean Franco: “Cruel Modernity”
Humanities 1, Room 202Professor Jean Franco was the first Professor of Latin American Literature in England. She was appointed Professor by the University of Essex in 1968 having previously taught at Queen Mary College and Kings College, London University. In 1972 she took up a position at Stanford University where she was later appointed to the Olive H. […]
A Public Dialogue with Jean Baumgarten and Nathaniel Deutsch
Humanities 1, Room 202One of the most important—and least appreciated—categories that Jews have employed to experience the world Jewishly is minhag, a Hebrew word typically translated into English as "custom." Historically, minhag enabled Jews to transform practically every event and action into something with Jewish meaning; it also enabled Jews to differentiate themselves from non-Jews, as well as […]