WHASC Newsletter February 22, 2005
("What's Happening at Santa Cruz")
WHASC is the weekly electronic newsletter of the UCSC Linguistics
Department. We welcome your news items, comments and feedback.
NOTE: WHASC comes out on Tuesdays. Please send your news items to lrc@ling.ucsc.edu by 12 noon on Tuesday.
***************************************
Stevenson College, UCSC, Presents:
First Annual Stevenson Faculty Lecture:
Professor Jorge Hankamer
Department of Linguistics UCSC
"What Can Computers
Tell Us About Turkish"
February 23, 2005
Stevenson College
Fireside Lounge
4:30-6:00 p.m.
--Reception Follows at the Stevenson Provost House--Co-sponsored by:
Department of Linguistics
and Institute for Humanities Research
***************************************
Lynsey Wolter will present 'Partial blocking in a definite system' on Thursday, February 24 at the DGfS Workshop (In)Determinacy of Meaning at the University of Cologne. This is the 27th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenscahft).  Christopher Potts is an invited speaker. His talk is called 'Lexicalized intonational meaning.'.
For further information, please visit: http://www.dgfs.de/cgi-bin/koeln2005.pl/main?lang=e
***************************************
LASC 2005
The annual "Linguistics at Santa Cruz" conference will take place on Saturday,
March 5, 2005 from 1-5 p.m. Chris Potts is the keynote speaker, and four current graduate students will present papers. Nine prospective graduate students will be visiting that day. The preliminary program is posted at:
http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/LASC05program.html
***************************************
Irene Heim from MIT will be speaking at the Construction of Meaning workshop at Stanford on Friday, February 25 beginning at 3:30 p.m. For more information, please visit: http://www.linguistics.stanford.edu/semgroup/eventschedule.html
***************************************
Psychology Winter Colloquia
In Social Sciences 2 #121 
MW 3:30-5 pm & M 12-1:30 pm (Social: Winter 2005 only)
Cognitive Program presents:
Wednesday, February 23rd
MARK VAN SELST
San Jose State University
Title: TBA
Wednesday, March 2nd
DAN KRAWCZYK
UC Berkeley: Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, postdoc fellow
"Motivated cognition: fMRI investigations of reward
and executive function"
***************************************
The SCLL web site is now up and running.
http://fortytwo.ucsc.edu/~chom/SCLL.html
***************************************
We're hiring! CASTL is in the initial stages of hiring three new researchers (Ph.D. students) and three post-docs to start approx. Sept 1, 2005. For a preliminary announcement of the post-doc positions (contingent upon final approval by the Faculty Board), see http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/16/16-482 . The announcement for Ph.D. positions will follow very soon. Please pass this along to any potential candidates, encouraging them to check the CASTL website often for the official announcement and the official deadline: http://castl.uit.no
*****************************************
Summer 2005 Intensive Language Programs
Mixec, Nahuatl, and Yucatecmaya
Sponsored by the Mesoamerican Language and Cultural Institute
Websites:
http://www.yale.edu/las/academic.htm
http://www.unc.edu/deps/ilas/maya.html
http://latinamericanstudies.sdsu.edu
***************************************
2005 Summer Institute in Applied Linguistics
June 27 - July 21, 2005
Penn State's University Park campus
State College, Pennsylvania
To learn more about the 2005 summer institute, or to register, vist their web site at:
http://www.outreach.psu.edu/cnf/AppliedLinguistics
***************************************
JOB OPENING
International Student Advisor
Office of International Education
http://planning.ucsc.edu/cbo/

***************************************

Connie M. Creel
Linguistics Research Center
University of California Santa Cruz
(831) 459-2386 (afternoons)
(831) 459-1380 (FAX)
(831) 459-5836 (mornings)