WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SANTA CRUZ
A weekly digest of linguistics news and events from the University of California, Santa Cruz
Jeremy O’Brien will defend his dissertation, “An Experimental Approach to Debuccalization and Supplementary Gestures”, this Friday, May 25th, at 4:00 pm, in the Humanities 1 Building, Room 210. All are welcome to attend.
There will be a colloquium by Lisa Davidson (New York University) this Friday, May 18th, at 4:00 pm, in Humanities 1, room 210. The title of the talk is “An investigation of hiatus (non-)resolution in American English”, and you can find the abstract here.
This Friday’s colloquium by Dominique Sportiche (UCLA) has been cancelled.
Ph.D. student Matt Tucker has been a Graduate Fellow of the Institute for Humanities Research this year. This Friday, May 4th, at 4:00 pm Matt will give a colloquium talk presenting some of his research supported by the IHR. The talk will take place in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge and is entitled “Variable Agreement: The Morphosyntax of Syntactic Binding”. To read the abstract, click here.
About once a quarter, Stevenson College hosts a lecture by one of its faculty fellows. This quarter’s speaker is Pranav Anand, whose talk is titled “All I Want is Some Honest Answers to My Questions: Tracking Argumentation and Stance in Online Political Debate.” It will take place this Wednesday, April 25th, at 4:00 pm, in the Stevenson Fireside Lounge. These talks are meant for a general audience, and everyone is welcome, but please RSVP to Debby Joyce at dajoyce at ucsc.edu. To learn more about the talk, visit here.
The Amah Mutsun Speaker Series is sponsoring a day-long event on Native American Language Revitalization this Friday, April 27th, 9:30am – 5:00pm, in the BayTree Conference Rooms. This event is also sponsored by the Cowell Gary Licker Memorial Chair, in the person of our own Sandy Chung. The event will feature a film, workshops, and several speakers including keynote speaker Jessie Little Doe Baird. To learn more, click here.
If you’ve ever wondered what it means to do the Humanities, or why the Humanities matter to the world – and to you – you are invited to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) on Saturday, April 21 for an afternoon of exploration.
Starting at 1:00 p.m., the UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research will host a series of panels and poster presentations at the MAH to answer your questions about the Humanities, and to showcase the research of the Faculty and Graduate Fellows in the Humanities from across the University of California. Panel topics include the power of language, religion and modernity, and empire and nation. Poster presentations cover research on the ethnography of disasters, feminist art, slavery and cannibalism, the criminalization of religious practice, party-crashing in Arabic medieval literature, the inevitable fate of the novel, and more. The moderator of the panel on the power of language (2:00 – 2:45) will be the Linguistics Department’s own Pranav Anand.
The event and the museum will be free and open to the public. In conjunction with ‘What Are We Doing When We Do the Humanities’, the MAH is featuring the highly anticipated ‘All You Need Is Love’ exhibition, which explores the many ways that love is manifest in our everyday lives. Find out more about the event here.