Upcoming Academic Events at Stevenson College
Academic Events, 2008-09
Stevenson College and the Politics Department, UCSC: Election Forums 2008
Help yourself prepare for the presidential elections and think about the issues!
Come hear diverse perspectives of UCSC faculty, and participate in the discussion!
"U.S. Domestic Election Issues"
Monday, 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 Michael Brown, Dept. of Politics, UCSC
Professor Eva Bertram, Dept. of Politics, UCSC
Professor Lori Kletzer, Dept. of Economics, UCSC
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"U.S. International Issues"
Monday, October 27, 2008
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Stevenson College Event Center
Forum Chair and Panelist: UCSC Professor of Politics Emeritus Isebill Gruhn
Other Panelists include:
Professor Ken Kletzer, Dept. of Economics
Professor Alan Richards, Departments of Environmental Studies and Economics, UCSC
Lecturer Zachary Zwald, Dept. of Politics, UCSC
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"Reviewing the Election; and Where do we go from Here?"
Monday, November 17, 2008
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Stevenson College Event Center
Forum Chair and Panelist: UCSC Professor of Politics Emeritus Isebill Gruhn
Other Panelists include:
Professor Michael Brown, Dept. of Politics, UCSC
Professor Daniel Wirls, Dept. of Politics, UCSC
Lecturer Zachary Zwald, Dept. of Politics, UCSC
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Stevenson College and the Linguistics Department, UCSC: Distinguished Alumni Lecture by Professor Jonathan R. Rickford
- Photo © Linda Cicero
Date & Time: October 22, 2008, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Location: Stevenson College Fireside Lounge
Title: TBA
Information on Professor Rickford:
Jonathan 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 interests 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 applications of linguistics to educational problems.
Books and Edited Works:
In prep—Sociolinguistic Fieldwork. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
In prep—An Annotated Bibliography on African American English and Other Vernaculars in Education. (With Angela E. Rickford and Julie Sweetland) NY. Lawrence Erlbaum and National Council of Teachers of English.
2004—Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-First Century, ed. (With Edward Finegan). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2002—Style and Sociolinguistic Variation, ed. (with Penelope Eckert). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2000—Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English. (With Russell J. Rickford) New York: John Wiley. [Winner of a 2000 American Book Award]
1999b—Creole Genesis, Attitudes and Discourse: Studies Celebrating Charlene Sato, ed. (with Suzanne Romaine). Amsterdam: John Benjamins .
1999a—African American Vernacular English: Features and Use, Evolution, and Educational Implications. Oxford: Blackwell.
1998—African American English, ed. by Salikoko S. Mufwene, John R. Rickford, Guy Bailey and John Baugh. London: Routledge.
1987c—(Ed., with Keith Denning, Sharon Inkelas, and Faye McNair-Knox), Variation in Language. Department of Linguistics, Stanford University.
1987b—(Ed.), Sociolinguistics and Pidgin-Creole Studies. Issue #71, International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Mouton, The Hague.
1987a—Dimensions of a Creole Continuum. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
1976—(Ed.), A Festival of Guyanese Words. Georgetown: University of Guyana. Second edition, revised and expanded, 1978.
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Stevenson College and the University Interfaith Council, UCSC: Ethics and Spirituality Forums
Theme: "THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS"
GREED - Consumerism vs. A Moral Economy
Speakers: Todd Madigan, Sacred Heart Social Services, San Jose
Monday, October 20, 2008
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Stevenson College Fireside Lounge
GLUTTONY - Drug, Alcohol, and Food Abuse
Speakers: Steve Stiles, New Life Rehab Center
Monday, November 17, 2008
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Stevenson College Fireside Lounge
LUST - Sex Trafficking
Speakers: Salvatorian Advocacy for Victims of Exploitation, Watsonville Center
January: day TBA
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Stevenson College Fireside Lounge
MORAL APATHY (Sloth) - Ending Hunger in Santa Cruz County
Speakers: Christine Woodard, Second Harvest Food Bank, Santa Cruz
Monday, February 9, 2009
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Stevenson College Fireside Lounge
PRIDE (Hubris) - Bioethical Issues - Where Do We Draw the Line?
Speakers: Jennifer Lahl, Center for Bioethics and Culture Network
March: day TBA
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Stevenson College Fireside Lounge
ANGER (Wrath) - Domestic Violence
Speakers:
April: day TBA
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Stevenson College Fireside Lounge
ENVY - Racial/Class/Gender Preferences
Speakers:
May: day TBA
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Stevenson College Fireside Lounge
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Winter Quarter Faculty Lecture, 2009
Title: TBA
Lecture by Professor and Chair of History, Mark Traugott
Date: TBA
Location: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
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Spring Quarter Faculty Lecture, 2009
Title: TBA
Lecture by Professor and Chair of Linguistics, Jim McCloskey
Date: TBA
Location: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Information on Professor McCloskey
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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Core Course Lectures, 2008-09:
All lectures are on Monday evenings at 7:00 p.m. in the Stevenson Event Center
Fall Quarter:
September 22, Ellen Suckiel, Professor of Philosophy, UCSC, Stevenson College Provost, "Orientation Lecture"
October 6, Ellen Suckiel, Professor of Philosophy, UCSC, Stevenson College Provost, "Sartre and Plato"
October 13, Bruce Thompson, Lecturer, History Deptartment, UCSC, “Matthew and Genesis”
November 10, Myron Lunine, Professor Emeritus of Humanities, SFSU, "Gandhi"
Winter Quarter:
February 2, Megan Thomas, Professor of Politics, UCSC, "Marx"
February 23, Peter Kenez, Professor of History, UCSC, "Antisemitism and the Holocaust"
March 2, Farnaz Fatemi, Lecturer, Writing Program, UCSC, "Persepolis I & Persepolis II"
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Academic Events, 2007-08
Spring Quarter Faculty Lecture, 2008
- Kyoto, Winter 2007
"What Anime and Karaoke Have In Common: A Linguistic Perspective"
Lecture by Professor of Linguistics, Junko Ito
Wednesday, May 7, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Location: Stevenson College Fireside Lounge
The English words animation and orchestra were imported into Japanese, then modified into anime and karaoke, and finally re-exported to English. Tempura, another such world traveler, came to Japan with Portuguese Christian missionaries in the 16th century (possibly derived from Latin tempora in the meaning "Lenten period"), then made the trip back to the West in the 20th century as a culinary japonicum. Besides their intrinsic historical and cultural interest, such loanwords and their patterns of modification reveal hidden generalizations about the linguistic structure of the borrowing language. The lecture will address and discuss the significant role that prosody (moras, syllables, binary rhythmic structures and other metrical laws) plays in various areas, ranging from the poetic traditions of the language—haiku, senryu, waka—to the formal morphological factors involved in such loanword modifications.
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DVD Presentation and Discussion by Professor Brian Catlos
PBS Documentary "Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain"
Featuring Stevenson Fellow and Associate Professor of History Brian Catlos
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
4:00-6:30 p.m.
Location: Stevenson College Event Center
DVD Description:
Over a thousand years ago, the sun-washed land of southern Spain was home to Jews, Christians, and Muslims, living together and flourishing. Their culture and beliefs intertwined, and the knowledge of the ancients was gathered and reborn. Here were the very seeds of the Renaissance.
But this world too quickly vanished … Greed, fear, and intolerance swept it away. Puritanical judgments and absolutism snuffed out the light of learning. Within a few centuries, the fragile union of these people dissipated like smoke. The time of tolerance was lost, forever.
Information on Professor Catlos:
Associate Professor of History and Stevenson College Fellow Brian Catlos (PhD: Toronto, 2000) investigates Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations in the medieval Mediterranean and how these relate to social, economic, political and cultural developments. Understanding the nature of ethnic and religious identity is key not only to the Middle Ages, but to issues in the world of today. In addition to his book, The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon (1050—1300) (Cambridge: 2004), which was awarded two prizes by the American Historical Association, he has written numerous academic articles and travel guide books. He is a project member at Spain’s national research council (CSIC) an external faculty member of the Università de Messina (Italy), President of the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain, and co-director of the Mediterranean Seminar (www.mediterraneanseminar.org). He was Creative Consultant and a featured scholar for the UPF/PBS documentary Cities of Light :The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain.
Professor Catlos has been at UCSC since 2002, he teaches courses on Islamic History, World History, the Crusades and medieval Spain and Europe.
Event Co-sponsors:
Department of History, the Institute for Humanities Research, Jewish Studies, and Mediterranean Studies
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Winter Quarter Faculty Lecture, 2008
"Kings, Commoners, and Food: The Moral Economy in Medieval England"
Lecture by Professor of History, Buchanan Sharp
Date and time: Thursday, Februaury 21, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Location: Stevenson College Fireside Lounge
Event description:
The occurrence of food riots in England as early as 1347 (180 years earlier than historians once thought) raises a number of issues that will be examined in the course of the lecture. Food riots are one measure of the existence of markets, if not of the abstraction that we know as the market. They are also manifestations not of popular hostility to markets per se but of popular attempts to regulate them. During the middle ages English kings and their governments developed a series of laws designed to protect consumers and regulate food markets. Medieval food riots also raise questions to be addressed in the lecture about the role of the Crown, its intentions in regulating the trade, and the relationship between royal and popular initiatives, including popular participation in, and knowledge of, the law in the medieval period.
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Core Course Lectures, 2007-08:
All lectures are on Monday evenings at 7:00 p.m. in the Stevenson Event Center
Fall Quarter:
September 24, Ellen Suckiel, "Academic Integrity"
October 1, Ellen Suckiel, "Sartre and Plato"
October 29, Bruce Thompson, "Genesis and Matthew"
November 19, Bruce Thompson, "Machiavelli"
Winter Quarter:
January 14, John Brown Childs, "Gandhi/King"
February 4, Gopal Balakrishnan, "Marx"
February 11, Jocelyn Hoy, "Nietzsche"
February 25, Peter Kenez, "The Holocaust"
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Distinguished Visiting Professor 2007: Dr. Jonathan Moreno
INFORMATION ON THE TALKS:
Monday, October 29, 2007
12:30-1:30 p.m., "The Ethics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research"
Location: 101 Natural Sciences Annex
Description: An introduction to the science and ethical and policy issues with special emphasis on the National Academies guidelines of 2005, and the current policy and funding environment. Further, Dr. Moreno will discuss key ethical issues such as the sources of human embryonic stem cells, egg donation, and chimeras.
5:00-6:30 p.m., "The Ethics of Human Experimentation for National Security Purposes"
Location: Stevenson College, Fireside Lounge
Description: Lecture and discussion on the ethics of human experimentation for national security purposes.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
2:00-3:30 p.m., "Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense"
Location: Stevenson College, Event Center
Description: Based on his new book of the same title, Dr. Moreno will explore the past, present and future of the national security agency’s interest in the brain. Throughout this exploration, he will examine the ethical and social questions raised by an increasingly powerful set of tools in neuroscience.
Excerpts and reviews from the book:
http://www.dana.org/news/danapressbooks/detail.aspx?id=3272
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9781932594164&z=y
INFORMATION ON DR. MORENO:
Professor Moreno is an internationally known scholar and policy-maker in bioethics, and has served on important national commissions and presidential advisory committees. His recent book, Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense, explores the ethics of cutting-edge brain research being applied to warfare. He reveals such projects as technology to read the brain’s thought patterns at a distance, the development of "anti-sleep" drugs to enhance soldiers’ battle performance and others to dampen their emotional reactions to violence.
The following is excerpted from Dr. Moreno’s website (http://hss.sas.upenn.edu/mt-static/faculty/department_faculty/jonathan_moreno_phd_professor.php )
Jonathan D. Moreno is Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC and a Visiting Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia.
He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies and has been a member of numerous National Academies committees. He co-chaired the Committee on Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. He has served as a senior staff member for two presidential advisory committees and has given invited testimony for both houses of congress.
Moreno is a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He is an advisor to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and GlaxoSmithKline. He is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, and a Fellow of the Hastings Center and the New York Academy of Medicine. Moreno has published more than 250 papers, reviews and book chapters, and is a member of several editorial boards. He is a frequent guest on news and information programs and is often cited and quoted in major national publications.
Selected Publications
Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (2006)
Ethical Guidelines for Innovative Surgery (2006)
Is There an Ethicist in the House? On the Cutting Edge of Bioethics (2005)
In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis (2003)
Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans (2001)
Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research (2003)
Deciding Together: Bioethics and Moral Consensus (1995)
Ethics in Clinical Practice (2000)
Arguing Euthanasia (1995)
CO-SPONSORS:
Departments of Philosophy, MCD Biology, Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, Institute for Humanities Research, The Science and Justice Working Group
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"The Fine-Tuning of the Universe"
Sponsored by the Veritas Forum
Co-sponsored by Stevenson College
Saturday, October 20, 2007
7:00 p.m.
Location: Stevenson Event Center
Description: Guillermo Gonzalez, Ph.D., Astronomy, and Jay Richards, Ph.D., Philosophy and Theology, will discuss the following and other themes from their book, "The Privileged Planet."
In their book, the authors ask, "Is the Earth an insignificant speck in a vast and meaningless universe; are we merely an accident, living in a purposeless universe? They argue that science is beginning to answer these questions. They contend, for instance, that cosmologists and physicists have been surprised to discover that we live in a universe fine-tuned for life: change any one of a dozen physical properties just a tiny amount, and you end up with a lifeless universe.
Gonzales and Richards further hold that we live in a highly improbable universe. Whats more, the universe is fine-tuned to permit discovery of its laws and properties.
Below is a link to the authors’ website:
http://www.privilegedplanet.com/
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Academic Events, 2006-07
Faculty Lectures, 2006-07
Winter Quarter
Lecture by Professor of Linguistics, Jaye Padgett
"Perception and Linguistic Sound Systems"
Wednesday, February 21, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Location: Stevenson College Library
Event Description:
"Languages change over time. This is as true of a language’s sound system as it is of anything else. Though language change is well documented, it’s much more difficult to understand why change happens and why a language changes in one direction rather than in another. My work explores how our perception of sounds might shape sound change and the resulting phonological patterns of a language. I discuss how one can do perceptual experiments in order to learn what sound contrasts are harder to perceive than others and then relate this data to known phonological patterns in language."
— Jaye Padgett
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Linguistics, the Department of Psychology, and the Institute for Humanities Research
Spring Quarter
Lecture by Professor of History, Jonathan Beecher
"The Making and Unmaking of a Christian Bolshevik: The Soviet Years of
Pierre Pascal”
Thursday, May 3, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Location: Stevenson Fireside Lounge
Event Description:
"My talk is an attempt to tell a story that I came upon, more or less by accident, while doing research in the former Central Party Archives in Moscow on the history of the Marx-Engels Institute and its founder David Riazanov. The story concerns the early years of Pierre Pascal (1890-1983), a brilliant French Slavicist best known for his magisterial 1938 study of the seventeenth-century Russian religious schism of the Old Believers. Less well known is his early life as a “scientific worker” in the Marx-Engels Institute and as an astute observer of the first fifteen years of Soviet power.
A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a devout Catholic, Pierre Pascal was sent to Russia in 1916 as part of a French diplomatic mission seeking to keep Russia in World War I. After the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia’s withdrawal from the war, the mission was recalled. But Pascal stayed on. He loved Russia and detested what he regarded as the decadent and corrupt civilization of bourgeois Europe. He believed the Bolshevik Revolution was the work of a whole people, and he became a Soviet citizen. By 1921, however, with the crushing of the Kronstadt sailors’ revolt and of the Left Opposition, he saw that his hopes had been misplaced. Yet he stayed on in Soviet Russia until 1933, working first as a translator in the Foreign Ministry and later as a researcher at the Marx-Engels Institute.
Why did Pascal stay on in Soviet Russia? How did he reconcile his communism with his lifelong Catholic faith? How did a man of such unorthodox views—and a man who never hid his close personal ties with anarchists and Russian dissidents—manage to survive in Soviet Russia? How was he able to get out when he did? What was left of his Christian communism after his return to France? And to what extent did the radical hopes of his youth inform the scholarship of his later years? I will address these questions, drawing both on published sources (including the diary that Pascal kept throughout his Soviet years) and on materials in French and Russian archives."
— Jonathan Beecher
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research and the Department of History
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Fireside Chats
Faculty Fireside Chats on Current Events, 2006-07
Presented by Professor Isebill Gruhn
Professor of Politics, Emerita
Fellow, Stevenson College
The War Against Terrorism
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
7:00-8:00 p.m.
Lower Quad, House 7 Lounge
The Palestinian/Israeli Lebanon Conflict
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
7:00-8:00 p.m.
Upper Quad, House 3 Lounge
The Problem of Iran: Nuclear Proliferation
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
7:00-8:00 p.m.
Location TBA
Refreshments and reception to follow all events
Sponsored by the Stevenson Provost Office and Stevenson Residential Life Staff
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Core Course Lectures, 2006-07
All lectures are on Mondays at 7:00 p.m. at the Stevenson Event Center
Fall Quarter, 2006:
September 18: Provost Ellen Suckiel, Themes and Aims of Stevenson Core Course, Academic Integrity
September 25: Provost Ellen Suckiel will lecture on Ethics in Plato
October 9: Lecturer in History and a Stevenson Fellow, Bruce Thompson, will lecture on Genesis & Matthew
October 30: Lecturer in Stevenson Core, Jerome Frisk, will lecture on the Tao Te Ching
November 6: Lecturer in History and a Stevenson Fellow, Bruce Thompson, will lecture on Machiavelli
Winter Quarter, 2007:
January 22: Michael G. Vann, "Achebe and Colonialism"
February 5: Jocelyn Hoy, "Nietzsche"
February 12: Peter Kenez, "The Holocaust"
March 5: TBA
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