Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash, Luiseño, and Yokuts territories, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated […]

In this talk, Professor Bueno will propose an empiricist account of visual evidence in the sciences and examine the role it plays in scientific representation (particularly, in microscopy). To motivate the view, a critical examination of Bas van Fraassen's empiricist proposal will be provided. Otávio Bueno is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy […]

I defend a Humean theory of motivation on which desire motivates all action and drives all practical reasoning. I respond to objections from Christine Korsgaard, David Velleman, and others suggesting that this view leaves no room for the self in action. I argue that all the agent's desires are part of the self, and that […]

LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES PRESENTS: "In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar" Patricia Lunn Professor Emeritus of Spanish Michigan State University Discussions about teaching grammar in the foreign language classroom are usually cast in terms of when (in order of acquisition) and how much (as against other activities). A little-discussed aspect of grammar teaching is what […]

This talk historicizes the placement of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary (the U.S. nation’s oldest and largest federal prison designed as a replica of the U.S. capitol building) at the center of the nation in the post-Reconstruction 1890s. Drawing on understandings of political geography from feminist and critical race studies, the talk traces the geography of prisons […]

This year’s Pacific Seminar returns focus to war, both as a way of invoking the foundational anti-Vietnam War struggles that inaugurated Asian American studies as an urgent political and epistemological project and as a contemporary analytic that wields the potential of reconfiguring the project of Asian American studies today.  In particular, this year’s Pacific Seminar […]

This talk will present a practical overview of the use of authentic texts for language learning purposes within the context of contemporary second language acquisition (SLA) research. Some of the questions that will be addressed during this talk include: What are the benefits and potential difficulties of authentic texts vis-à-vis graded readers? What are the […]