Events
Humanities 1, Room 202
Invitation and Object: Reframing the Study of Palestine
Humanities 1, Room 202"Welcome to Gaza: On the Politics of Invitation and the Right to Tourism" Jennifer Kelly, Associate Professor, UCSC In between Israeli military incursions, Palestinians in Gaza have described their colonial condition and navigated their cleavage from the rest of Palestine through virtual collaborative projects that rehearse, satirize, and reimagine tourism. These projects refuse to position […]
Book Presentation: Jai Sen’s The Movements of Movements
Humanities 1, Room 202Join us as Jai Sen discusses his ambitious anthology on social movements with a panel of commentators including Michelle Glowa (CIIS), Deborah Gould (UCSC), and Patrick King (UCSC). Jai Sen is an activist/researcher/author on and in movement. Earlier an organizer, then a researcher into popular movement, for the past decade and more he has worked to promote […]
Jeff Michno: “Nicaragua Y ¿Vos, tú o usted?”
Humanities 1, Room 202In this talk, I highlight variation in second-person singular pronoun use (vos, tú, and usted) by local residents of a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact driven by tourism. I demonstrate that pronoun selection can vary according to the amount of contact locals have with outsiders in their community, providing evidence that […]
Applied Linguistics Colloquia
Humanities 1, Room 202Philosophy Colloquium: Gene Witmer
Humanities 1, Room 202“Metaphysics and A Priori Vindication” Is there reason to expect any interesting kind of a priori access to metaphysical truths of the sort often in dispute in contemporary philosophy? In this paper I zero in on truths about what is metaphysically necessary and about the essences or natures of things as key topics in metaphysics […]
Philosophy Colloquium: Ori Simchen
Humanities 1, Room 202“Realism and Instrumentalism in Metaphysical Explanation” Ori Simchen is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Professor Simchen works mostly in the philosophy of language and metaphysics. Most recently he's been working on metasemantics, or foundational semantics, and its relation to formal semantics. He is particularly interested in how to think […]
Humanities Institute Public Fellows Info Session
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute's Public Fellows program on Tuesday, April 10 from 12:00-1:00 pm in Humanities Room 202 where we will hear from our 2017 cohort of Public Fellows, and also cover the opportunities for public fellows this coming summer which include new partner organizations. In addition, we […]
Reading Seminar: Jeffrey Santa Ana’s Transpacific Ecological Imagination
Humanities 1, Room 202Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a […]
IPAs are like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments
Humanities 1, Room 202The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: “IPAs are Like a Hoppy Craft Beer: Acquiring a Taste for Task-based Language Teaching and Integrated Performance Assessments” Jill Pellettieri, Ph.D. This workshop focuses on the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) as simply one specific model of task-based language learning and assessment. Like the hoppy […]
Cathy Davidson Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 202Cathy Davidson will offer a hands-on workshop on engaged pedagogy with the Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster, working with the research group to address a topic of their choice. Students from Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts are all encouraged to attend. Come prepared with a pedagogy question to dive into. For copies […]