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Winter Faculty Lecture, 2010
Professor Forrest Robinson
My Mark Twain
February 24, 2010
4:00 p.m.
Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Forrest Robinson is a Professor of American Studies and a Fellow of Stevenson College. He took his BA in English at Northwestern University in 1963, his MA and PhD in English Literature at Harvard in 1964 and 1967. After three years as an Assistant Professor at Harvard, he came to UCSC in 1970. He has held Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, and served as EAP Director in the UK in 1997-99. He has written widely on English and American literature and biography, with a special emphasis on the life and work of Mark Twain.
Event Co-sponsors:
American Studies Department,
Institute for Humanities Research
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Distinguished Alumni Lecture
Sally Sedgwick
Reason and History:
Kant versus Hegal
April 21, 2010
4:00 p.m.
Stevenson Silverman Conference Room Sally Sedgwick (Stevenson College, 1978) is Professor of Philosophy and Affiliated Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1985 and until 2003 was on the faculty at Dartmouth College. She has held visiting positions at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the universities of Bonn, Bern and Lucern. Her main area of research is German idealism, in particular the theoretical and practical philosophies of Kant and Hegel. She has been awarded grants by NEH, ACLS, DAAD, and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. Her publications include numerous essays on Kant and Hegel, and the monograph, Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: An Introduction (2008). She is editor of the volume, The Reception of Kant's Critical Philosophy: Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel (2000), and is completing a book on Hegel's critique of Kant. In July 2009, she will begin her year as President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.
Event Co-sponsors:
Department of Philosophy,
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Spring Faculty Lecture, 2010
Professor Armin Mester
Shades of Foreignness
Date & Time TBA
The vocabulary of a language typically has multiple layers of "borrowed" words, largely reflecting the history of its speakers, and the nature of their contacts with the speakers of other languages. Besides its historical, political and sociological implications, this layered nature of the lexicon of a language, with various shades of foreignness, also provides an interesting window and on the linguistic structure of the lexicon, and on the architecture of grammar.
To visit Professor Mester's website, click here.
Event Co-sponsors:
Linguistics Department,
Institute for Humanities Research
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Forum on the Budget Crisis in California and the University of California
Monday, October 19, 2009
Stevenson College Event Center
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Speaker: John Laird
California State Assemblymember, 2002-2008
Chair of California Assembly Budget Committee Chair, 2004-2008
Respondent: Christopher Connery
Professor of Literature, UCSC
Respondent: Shelly Errington
Professor of Anthropology, UCSC
Moderator: Bruce Thompson
Lecturer in History, Literature, and Stevenson College, UCSC
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Spring Faculty Lecture, 2009
Professor James McCloskey
Sex and the Irish Language
May 14, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Jim McCloskey is Professsor and Chair of Linguistics at UCSC and a Fellow of Stevenson College. He was trained at University College Dublin (in Medieval Irish and Linguistics) and at the University of Texas at Austin. He has held positions at University College Dublin, UC San Diego, and at MIT and has been at UCSC since 1988, following a year spent as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford. His research centers on linguistic theory and on the Irish language, and also on nonstandard varieties of English. In addition, he has been concerned with better understanding issues of language loss, language extinction, and language revival. |
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Distinguished Alumni Lecture
Jonathan Kirsch
Harlots, Holy Books, and History: Confessions of a Vulgarizer
April 16, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Jonathan Kirsch is an author, an attorney specializing in publishing law, a long-time book critic for the Los Angeles Times, an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Professional Publishing Program, and a commentator on NPR affiliate KCRW in Los Angeles.
He is the author of twelve books, many of which deal with the history of religion and religious texts. They include the best-selling The Harlot by the Side of the Road: Forbidden Tales of the Bible and the newly-published The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God. |
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Winter Faculty Lecture, 2009
Professor Mark Traugott
The Revolutionary Barricade:
How it Originated and What it Teaches Us about how History is Written
January 28, 2009
4:00 p.m.
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Mark Traugott is Professor of History and Sociology at UCSC and a Fellow of Stevenson College. He earned his B.A. in Social Relations at Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph. D. degrees in Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His research areas include the study of social movements, especially European revolutionary movements; nineteenth-century France; the social history of the European working class; and historical methods. His talk will be based on a chapter of his forthcoming book entitled The Insurgent Barricade. |
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Distinguished Alumni Lecture
Professor John R. Rickford
African American Vernacular English, Linguistics, and the Balck/White Achievement Gap in American Schools
October 22, 2008
4:00 p.m.
Stevenson Fireside Lounge John R. Rickford is Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University and UCSC alumnus (Stevenson College, Linguistics, 1971). He received his BA with highest honors in Sociolinguistics from UCSC in 1971, and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979.
His interest include sociolinguistics, especially the relation between language and ethnicity, social class and style, language variation and change, pidgin and creole languages, African American vernacular English, and the application of linguistics to education problems. |
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Election Forums, 2008
Reviewing the Election; and Where do we go from Here?
November 17, 2008
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Stevenson College Event Center
Forum Chair and Panelist:
UCSC Professor of Politics and Emerita Isebill Gruhn
Other Panelists Include:
Professor Michael Brown, Dept. of Politics, UCSC
Professor Alan Richards, Dept. of Environmental Studies and Economics, UCSC
Professor Daniel Wirls, Dept. of Politics, UCSC
Lecturer Zachary Zwald, Dept. of Politics, UCSC
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Election Forums, 2008
U.S. International Issues
October 27, 2008
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Stevenson College Event Center
Forum Chair and Panelist:
UCSC Professor of Politics and Emerita Isebill Gruhn
Other Panelists Include:
Professor Peter Kenez, Dept. of History, UCSC
Professor Alan Richards, Dept. of Environmental Studies and Economics, UCSC
Lecturer Zachary Zwald, Dept. of Politics, UCSC
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Election Forums, 2008
U.S. Domestic Issues
October 20, 2008
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Stevenson College Event Center
Forum Chair and Panelist:
UCSC Professor of Politics Daniel Wirls
Other Panelists Include:
Professor Eva Bertram, Dept. of Politics, UCSC
Professor Michael Brown, Dept. of Politics, UCSC
Professor Lori Kletzer, Dept. of Economics, UCSC
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