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WHASC Newsletter April 29, 2004
("What's Happening at Santa Cruz")
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WHASC is the weekly electronic newsletter of the UCSC Linguistics Department. We welcome your news items, comments and feedback.
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COLLOQUIUM TOMORROW
The UCSC Department of Linguistics & the Institute for Humanities Research
present
Christian Rathmann
University of Texas at Austin
speaking on
"Situation Type and Viewpoint Aspects in American Sign Language"
Friday, April 30, 2004
4:00 p.m.
Bay Tree Conference Room D
Located in the Bay Tree Bookstore Building, 3rd Floor (take the elevator)
Everyone is invited to Joe's Pizza in the book store plaza after the talk for a reception.
To view the abstract, please visit: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/colloquia/index.html
For more information or special needs, contact lrc@ling or 459-2386
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KUDOS
Congratulations to Geoff Pullum who has been selected as one of the first recipients of the UCSC Humanities Distinguished Professor Award. Geoff will receive $5,000 per year as a research stipend for four consecutive years. The others selected were Professors James Clifford (History of Consciousness), Carla Freccero (Literature), Gail Hershatter (History), and David Hoy (Philosophy). All of the award-winning professors said they would primarily use the funds to support graduate students in their departments.
http://currents.ucsc.edu/03-04/04-26/humanities.html
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Jaye Padgett is giving a talk tomorrow (Friday) at UCLA, called "The phonology and phonetics of Russian vowel reduction."
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The Philosophy Department presents
Bas van Fraassen
Dept. of Philosophy, Princeton University
"Appearance versus Reality as a Scientific Problem"
Tuesday, May 4, 2004
4:00 p.m.
Namaste Lounge - Colleges Nine/Ten
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Psychology Department Colloquia Series
> Social Sciences 2, 121
> 3:30-5:00 pm
>
> Wednesday, May 5
> Cognitive Program presents:
> JOHN OHALA
> Linguistics Department, UC Berkeley
> "Cognitive Aspects of Sound Change, If Any"
Berkeley emeritus phonetician John Ohala is an excellent speaker, and a very interesting thinker on topics connecting phonetics to things like evolution, cognition, and diachrony
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SWOT 2004
The department will host the South Western Optimality Theory Workshop Program on May 14 and 15. The program may be viewed at: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/SWOT.html Jaye Padgett is organizing this event. Speakers will come from Univ. of Texas, Austin, Stanford, USC, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson and UC San Diego.
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WELCOME
Welcome to Ben Hermans from Tilburg University, The Netherlands, who will arrive Monday to visit the department during the month of May. Ben is a phonologist working mainly in Slavic. He will be consulting with Jaye Padgett on vowel reduction in Russian.
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New in the LRC Library:
Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 22 (2004) [CD format]
Special Issue on Syntax and Psycholinguistics - "Holes in Sentences: Shared structures, missing arguments and feature deficiencies", Chiara Frigeni, Editor.
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It's a Birthday Party!!!!
Come celebrate the International Learning Center's
Second Year at UCSC
Saturday May 1st at the ILC Quad, behind Social Sciences 1
6-10 pm
Food, Drinks, Cultural Games, Music, and Jamba Juice tent!!!
For information please contact Luke Botzheim @ 459-3795
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FULBRIGHT PROGRAM
The institute of International Education (IIE) announces the launch of the 2005-2006 Fulbright Student Competition.
For more than 57 years, the U.S. Government-sponsored Fulbright U.S. Student Program has provided future American leaders with an unparalleled opportunity to study and conduct research in other nations.
The U.S. Student Program awards approximately 1,000 grants annually and currently operates in over 140 countries worldwide. The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Applicants to the Fulbright U.S. Student Program must be U.S. citizens at the time of application and hold a bachelor's degree or the equivalent by the beginning of the grant.
For more information, applicants should visit the Fulbright U.S. Student Program Web site at http://www.iie.org/fulbright/us or, more specifically to UCSC students, the Office of International Education website located at: http://oie.ucsc.edu/ful/
Students currently enrolled at UCSC should contact campus Fulbright Program Advisor Kate Colburn for application forms and further information. (kate1@ucsc.edu/459-2420)
Applications must be submitted in full to Kate Colburn by the campus closing date of October 4, 2004 in order to be received by IIe by the October 21, 2004 national deadline.