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WHASC Newsletter May 13, 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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BRAVO!
Congratulations to Alexa Goldstrom, a senior in Language Studies, who has been awarded a Dean's Award AND a Chancellor's Award for her senior project, "A Chachapoya History". Judith Aissen was her faculty sponsor. Alexa will be presenting at the Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference, June 2.
Congratulations to Eric Terao, a senior in Language Studies, who also has been awarded a Dean's Award AND a Chancellor's Award for his senior project, "The Japanese Utterance-Final Glottal Stop." Junko Ito was his faculty sponsor. Eric will also be presenting at the Undergrad Conference.
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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/index.html Friday's talks will take place at the Cowell Conference Room. Coffee and bagels will be served beginning at 9:00 a.m. in Room 133. The first talk by invited speaker, Scott Myers (University of Texas, Austin), begins at 9:30 a.m. On Saturday, the workshop will move to the Bay Tree Conference Room D on the third floor of the Bay Tree Bookstore Building. Coffee is at 9:30 and the first talk is at 10 a.m. on Saturday. The conference will conclude with a dinner and conviviality at the Merrill College Provost house Saturday evening. Everyone is welcome!
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DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Line Mikkelsen will defend her doctoral thesis
Specifying who: On the structure, meaning, and use of specificational clauses
Monday, May 17, 2004
2:00 pm
Cowell Senior Common Room
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COLLOQUIUM NEXT FRIDAY
Matthew Gordon
UC Santa Barbara
speaking on
Cyclic and non-cyclic epenthesis and prosodic domains in Kabardian
Friday, May 21, 2004
4:00 p.m.
Stevenson College - Silverman Conference Room
To view the abstract, please visit: http://ling.ucsc.edu/events/colloquia/index.html
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INTERNATIONAL PLAYHOUSE IV
The Humanities Division, Cowell & Stevenson Colleges & the Language Program Present:
Theater Pieces in Five Languages
Works in Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese and Spanish
with English supertitles
Thursday May 20 & Friday, May 21, 2004 - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 22 - 2:30 p.m.
Stevenson College Event Center
Admission is free!
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The Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley presents:
*** Conference on Methods in Phonology ***
in Honor of John J. Ohala
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May 21-23, 370 Dwinelle
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Organizers: Patrice Beddor, Maria-Josep Solé, & Manjari Ohala
Contact: Manjari Ohala (ohala@socrates.berkeley.edu)***************************************
Sam Zoranovich (MA, UCSC) writes:
More ling grads at tellme!
Chelsea Lingo will be joining the User Interface team on 5/24, and Chris Schultz will be joining the transcription team 5/17!
You guys keep turning 'em out, we'll keep scoopin' 'em up!
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Psychology Department
Colloquium Series
Social Sciences 2, 121
3:30-5:00 pm
Wednesday, May 19
Cognitive Program presents:
SECOND -YEAR TALKS
Psychology Department Graduate Students, UC Santa Cruz
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Take the UCSC Majors Survey and be entered into a drawing to wine one of three I-pod Minis!
Take the survey at: https://survey.ucsc.edu/majors04
All UC Santa Cruz students who have officially declared one or more majors are being invited to give feedback about the quality of academic programs, the value of their experiences in their majors, and their progress toward their academic goals. The main purpose of this survey is to help campus faculty and administrators provide the best academic programs possible.
Prizes!!!
As an appreciation for your time and as an incentive for participation, students who complete the survey will be entered into a drawing to wine one of three I-pod minis.
Your responses will be completely confidential, and the results of the survey will be reported only as aggregate data.
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Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions
3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
January 13 - 16, 2005
Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu Hawaii, USA
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2004
Sponsored by:
East West Council for Education
Center of Asian Pacific Studies of Peking University
Web address: http://www.hichumanities.org
Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org
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NEW in the LRC Library
Language Research, Vol. 40 No. 1, March 2004, published by the Language Education Institute, Seoul National University