Author: Scott Rappaport
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UC Santa Cruz is first UC campus to contribute books for Google digital library project
The University of California, Santa Cruz, today became the first UC campus to contribute a shipment of books from its library for the Google Books Library Project. The massive project was launched in 2004 when Google announced it would be working with the libraries of the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, and the…
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John Mock receives grant to document traditions in Afghanistan
John Mock, lecturer in Hindi and Urdu, has received a $32,000 grant from the Palo Alto-based Christensen Fund to support a folklorist who will help document the traditions of the people of Wakhan in Afghanistan. The folklorist will collaborate with Wakhi ethnographers to support local pride and enrich potential conservation and ecotourism activities. Mock’s two-year…
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz announces new season
Artistic Director Marco Barricelli has announced the lineup for his inaugural season at Shakespeare Santa Cruz (SSC). The 2008 season will combine Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and All’s Well That Ends Well with two contemporary American plays–Burn This, by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, and Bach at Leipzig, by the critically acclaimed young playwright, Itamar…
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Judith Aissen named Fellow of Linguistic Society of America
Linguistics professor Judith Aissen has been named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. She received the honor at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the organization, held January 3-6 in Chicago. Similarly honored at the meeting was professor emeritus of linguistics Geoffrey Pullum. “Election as a Fellow recognizes a record of distinguished contributions to…
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UC Santa Cruz professor investigates the extraordinary power of insults
What kind of injury is an insult? Is its infliction determined by the insulter or the insulted? What does it reveal about the character of both parties, as well as the character of society and its conventions? What is its role in social and legal life? How ready should we be to forgive? Those questions…
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Literature professor Sharon Kinoshita receives MLA prize
Literature professor Sharon Kinoshita has received an honorable mention award from The Modern Language Association of America (MLA) as part of its 15th annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literary Studies. Kinoshita received the honor for her book, Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature, published by the University of…
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John Mock elected to council of Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Hindi and Urdu lecturer John Mock has been elected to the Executive Council of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) for a four-year term. The organization joins people with wide-ranging interests in the Himalayan region with the goal of increasing awareness of the unparalleled diversity of the human and natural worlds within the…
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UCSC offers city renewed financial support for neighborhood party patrols
UC Santa Cruz has renewed its commitment of funds to help the Santa Cruz Police Department enforce a city ordinance passed in 2005 to address the impact of large parties on local neighborhoods. For winter, spring, and fall quarter of next year, UCSC will again make available $25,000 each quarter to pay for additional police…
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New book on Mark Twain examines author’s moral torment
Mark Twain is often referred to as America’s favorite humorist. But a new book by American Studies professor Forrest Robinson sheds new light on the renowned author’s tormented moral life. The Author-Cat: Clemens’s Life in Fiction (Fordham University Press) is a culmination of more than 25 years of research by Robinson on Samuel Clemens–who is…
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UCSC receives gift of rare audio interviews and photos of late ’60s jazz and rock icons
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a gift of more than 1,000 photographs of renowned jazz and rock musicians from the late 1960s, taken by the late jazz scholar and historian, Frank Kofsky. The collection includes 35mm slides, prints, and negatives of such recording artists as John Coltrane, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Ornette…
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Leta Miller named editor of Society for American Music journal
Music professor Leta Miller has been appointed editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music, beginning in fall 2008, for a four-year term. Published quarterly, the journal is the leading periodical for studies in American music. The Society for American Music was founded in 1975 and is a non-profit scholarly and educational organization…