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WHASC Newsletter, April 2, 2003
("What's Happening at Santa Cruz")
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Welcome back for Spring Quarter!
ACCOLADES
Congratulations to Anya Hogoboom, who passed her syntax qualifying paper defense on Thursday, March 20. The title of her paper is "Finding and Licensing pro in Norwegian". The committee members were Jorge, Jim, and Donka.
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Thank you to Nathan Sanders for coordinating Slug Pubs for the past four years. Nathan has passed the baton to Anya Hogoboom, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld and Lynsey Wolter.
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WELCOME
We welcome two prospective graduate students who are visiting the department this week. Tara McAllister is from Harvard University and Cristina Kim is from MIT.
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Bon voyage to Armin and Junko who are invited speakers at the 39th Annual Conference of the Chicago Linguistic Society at The University of Chicago April 10-12.
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WCCFL 22 REPORT
Andy Wedel, Adam Ussishkin, Adam Albright, Joey Sabbagh and Anne Sturgeon presented papers at WCCFL March 21-23. Joey's talk was "Right Node Raising is Sometimes Movement before and Sometimes after Spellout." Everyone's talks were very well received. The focus of the conference was on Experimental Approaches to Theoretical Linguistics and there were many interesting talks on this topic. Santa Cruz alums Chris Barker, John Moore and Dan Brassil were there as well. The conference was well organized and San Diego weather was great. http://ling.ucsc.edu/wccfl-22/
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The Mind and Meaning Project of the Institute for Humanities
Research at UC Santa Cruz, in conjunction with the Department of
Philosophy, will sponsor the following lecture:
IS ART AN ADAPTATION?
PROSPECTS FOR AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON ART
Ronald de Sousa
Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
WEDNESDAY APRIL 16TH
4:00PM
Namaste Lounge, College Nine
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Ronald de Sousa is one of the most distinguished of modern
philosophers. He has made important contributions in the areas of
philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and in the philosophy
of ethics and emotions. A current preoccupation is with the
philosophy of biology, where his thinking has centered especially
on the analysis of teleological explanation, the structure of
evolutionary theory, the status of biological individuals and
species, and on philosophical aspects of artificial life.
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SPRING QUARTER LINGUISTIC EVENTS/IMPORTANT DATES - MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
April 15 (T) Drop-In Declaration for Linguistics & Language Studies
1:30-3:30 p.m. Stevenson 249 (Commons Room)
April 16 (W) Last day to sign up for Senior Linguistics Comprehensive Exam
Ronald de Sousa, Mind & Meaning talk, 4 p.m., College Nine
April 18 (F) Colloquium with Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT "Argument Structure and Double Objects"
3:30 p.m. Silverman Conference Room. Read the abstract at: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/index.html
April 30 (W) Last day to apply for Undergraduate Research Award for 2002-03 academic year
May 2 (F) Colloquium with Colin Wilson, Phonologist from UCLA Title: TBA
3:30 p.m. Silverman Conference Room
May 9 (F) Colloquium with José Benki, Phonologist & Psycholinguist from the University of Michigan, Title: TBA
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Psychology; 3:30 p.m. Baytree Conference Room D
May 10 (S) TREND Conference (Trilateral Phonology) Silverman Conference Room
May 14 (W) Senior Comprehensive Exams handed out at 12 p.m. at 241 Stevenson
May 19 (M) Comprehensive Exams due by 12 noon. Senior thesis/projects due by 12 noon
May 23 (F) Colloquium with Maribel Romero, Semanticist from the University of Pennsylvania Title: TBA
3:30 p.m. Silverman Conference Room
June 5 (Th) Undergraduate Research Conference 2003
3-6 p.m. Baytree Conference Room D
June 6 (F) Chancellor's Undergraduate Award Ceremony 3-5 p.m. University Center ***************************************
Call for Papers
23rd South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA XXIII)
University of Texas at Austin, October 10-12, 2003
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2003
For more information, please visit: http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~sala23
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Psychology Department
Colloquium Series
Social Sciences 2, 121
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Developmental Program: Monday, April 7
Virginia Marchman, Stanford University (visiting scholar)
"The Language-Specific Nature of Grammatical Development: Evidence from bilingual language learners"
Cognitive Program: Friday, April 11
Talia Ben-Zeev, San Francisco State
Title: TBA
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New in the LRC Library:
EONEOHAG, Journal of the Linguistic Society of Korea. No. 34, December 2002.
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Proposals for UC-wide Instructional Technology Grants Due April 21
The UC Teaching, Learning & Technology Center (TLtC) is seeking proposals for
its Intercampus Collaborative Grants program, which aims at furthering
innovative and appropriate uses of technology in teaching and learning through
partnerships across the campuses. UC faculty are invited to apply for TLtC
Full-scale Expansion & Implementation grants (up to $75k per year for a
maximum of three years) which are intended to expand curricular strategies
that use technology beyond a single campus, for the potential benefit of the
entire UC system. The deadline to submit proposals is April 21.
Application instructions, as well as examples of proposals that have been
funded in the past, can be found on the TLtC web site.
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The UCSC Alumni Association 2003-04 nominations for distinguished Teacher, Outstanding Staff member and Alumni Achievement Award are due by Friday, May 2, 2003. http://www.alumni.ucsc.edu/programs/index.html