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Slugs & Steins: David Brundage – The Easter Rising and New York: How Ireland’s Revolution Triggered a Fight Against Empire
Virtual EventThis talk will assess the impact of the 1916 Easter Rising on a variety of anticolonial movements beyond Ireland and the Irish diaspora, focusing on New York City, long recognized as the overseas capital of Irish nationalist agitation and mobilization. But New York played a similar role for a variety of other descent groups and […]
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Rohit De – Lawyering in Times of Lawlessness: Defending Dissenters in India and Sri Lanka (1947-1971)
Virtual EventRohit De is an Associate Professor of History at Yale University and an Associate Research Scholar at Yale Law School. A lawyer and a historian of South Asia and the common law world, he is the author of A People’s Constitution: Law and Everyday Life in the Indian Republic (Princeton University Press, 2018). He is […]
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Pathways to Thriving Communities – Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
Virtual Event“These young people are saying we all have a right to know what is in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, and the food we eat. It is our responsibility to leave this planet cleaner and greener. That must be our legacy.” ― John Lewis Ready for some Necessary Trouble? In anticipation […]
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Linguistics Colloquia: Maria Gouskova
Virtual EventAbout eight times each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
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PhD+ Workshop – Publishing
Virtual EventAs co-editors of the recently published special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies on Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective, we invite you to join us for a workshop focused on academic journal article publishing. We will cover: adapting elements from your dissertation into journal articles; creating your own publication pipeline; navigating the journal submission, […]
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Social Movements for a Just Society – Necessary Trouble: Thinking with the Legacy of John R. Lewis
Virtual Event“A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option — for peace cannot exist where justice is not served.” — John Lewis said of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act Ready for […]
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John W. Reid, “Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet”
Virtual EventFive stunningly large forests remain on Earth: the Taiga, extending from the Pacific Ocean across all of Russia and far-northern Europe; the North American boreal, ranging from Alaska's Bering seacoast to Canada's Atlantic shore; the Amazon, covering almost the entirety of South America's bulge; the Congo, occupying parts of six nations in Africa's wet equatorial […]
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Santa Cruz Pickwick Club: “Night Walks” by Charles Dickens
Virtual EventFor its next meeting, the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club will read Dickens’s short, semi-autobiographical essay, “Night Walks.” Professor John Jordan will lead the discussion. Originally published in 1860 in Dickens’s weekly magazine All the Year Round, the essay is a good example of Dickens’s work as a journalist, social activist, and observer of the modern […]
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The 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing
Virtual EventHSP2022 will interrogate the connection between prosody, gesture and meaning. We are delighted to welcome the following researchers to address questions related to the perception and production of prosody and the planning and interpretation of co-speech gesture. By what mechanisms are these multimodal communication channels integrated with, or segregated from, other aspects of linguistic cognition, […]
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Linguistics Colloquia: Mara Breen
Virtual EventAbout eight times each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
