Category: Talks

SCLP is an interdisciplinary reading group at UCSC consisting of faculty and graduate students from philosophy and linguistics. The focus of the group is in the areas of formal semantics, the philosophy of language, and philosophical logic. On Friday May 2nd, SCLP will welcome Professor Michela Ippolito of the University of Toronto to the campus in its Distinguished Visitor series. The title of Michela’s talk is Negative Conditionals and the abstract is available here. The event will take place at 4pm on Friday May 2nd in (the slightly unusual venue of) Humanities Two, Room 259.

The first colloquium of the Spring Quarter will take place on Friday April 11th at 4pm in Humanities One, Room 210. The speaker is Sun-Ah Jun of UCLA. The title of her talk is Prominence and phrasing in ambiguity resolution: Evidence from priming and individual differences, and the abstract is available here.

The UCSC Department of Philosophy will host another talk in their Assistant Professor candidate series.
on Tuesday March 4th. Michael Hicks, who works in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language will give a talk on The Presentational Use of Descriptions. The abstract is available here. The talk will take place in Humanities Two, Room 259 at 4:15pm.

The final meeting of S-Circle for this quarter will take place on Friday March 7th at 3:30pm in the Linguistics Common Room. This week’s presenter is Ryan Bochnak who is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley. The title and abstract for Ryan’s talk will be available soon.

Maziar Toosarvandani will present on his current research in S-Circle on Friday February 28th in the Linguistics Common Room (Stevenson 249). Maziar’s title is The temporal interpretation of clause chaining in Northern Paiute and the abstract is available here.