UCSC FACULTY RESEARCH LECTURES
Audiotapes of lectures are available
at McHenry Library’s Media Center
| 2007 | Geoffrey K. Pullum | "Who Pays Attention to the Syntax of Things" |
| 2006 | Nathaniel Mackey | "Cante Moro" |
| 2005 | Mary Silver | "A Naturalist's View: Toxic Algae in the Coastal Ocean" |
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2004 |
Barbara Rogoff |
"Learning Through Intent Participation in Cultural Activity" |
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2003 |
Jonathan Beecher |
"Two Concepts of Utopia" |
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2002 |
David Haussler |
"A Working Draft of the Human Genome" |
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2001 |
James Clifford |
Ishi’s Story: History, Anthropology, and the Future of Native California |
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2000 |
David S. Kliger |
Making Light Work of Biology: Using Lasers to Understand Biomolecule |
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1999 |
David Cope |
Experiments in Musical Intelligence |
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1998 |
Adrienne Zihlman |
An Anthropologist on Venus |
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1997 |
Donald E. Osterbrock |
Active Galactic Nuclei: Lighthouses in the Universe |
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1996 |
Donna J. Haraway |
FemaleMan(c) Meets OncoMouse(tm): A Technoscience Fugue in Two Parts |
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1995 |
Harry F. Noller |
Exploring Ribosomal RNA: The Heart of an Ancient Molecular Machine |
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1994 |
G. William Domhoff |
Do Night Dreams have Meaning and Why are the Corporate Rich So Powerful?" |
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1993 |
Jack Zajac |
Falling Water (an exhibit of his bronze sculptures and discussion of his work) |
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1992 |
Audrey Stanley |
Waiting For...The Muses: An Exploration of The Arts |
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1991 |
Harry Berger, Jr |
Collecting Body Parts in Leonardo's Cave: Vasari's Lives of the Artists and The Erotics of Obscene Connoisseurship |
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1990 |
Sandra M. Faber |
The Giant New Keck Telescope: Earth's Largest Time Machine |
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1989 |
Thomas F. Pettigrew |
The Nature of Modern Racism in The United States |
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1988 |
Gerhard Ringel |
Problems with Empires--from Recreation to Research in Mathematics |
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1987 |
Jean H. Langenheim |
Amber and Banana Slugs: Plant Chemical Defense in the Tropics and Redwoods |
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1986 |
Richard A. Wasserstrom |
The Attack on Programs of Preferential Treatment: A Critical Assessment" |
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1985 |
Kenneth S. Norris |
The Dolphin Connection |
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1984 |
Hayden White |
The History of Consciousness |
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1983 |
Frank X. Barron |
Personal Philosophy and Creative Thinking about Nuclear Warfare Contingencies |
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1982 |
Robert E. Garrison |
Paleoceanography: A Science of Vanished Oceans and Earth Resources |
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1981 |
Robert P. Kraft |
The Chemical Composition of the Oldest Stars--A Project for the Ten Meter Telescope |
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1980 |
John A. Marcum |
South Africa, Higher Education and the United States: A Policy Statement |
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1979 |
C. L. Barber |
The Family, Sacredness and Violence in Shakespeare's Tragedy and Romance |
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1978 |
Norman O. Brown |
The Legend of Tanaquil |
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1977 |
Harry Beevers |
Probing the Mysteries of the Plant Cell: Through the Xylem Canal with Gun and Camera |
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1976 |
M. Brewster Smith |
Thinking About the Self |
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1975 |
Joseph F. Bunnett |
Boundary Conditions of the Social Sciences and Their Implications |
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1974 |
Albert Hofstadter |
The Scope of Human Liberation |
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1973 |
Aaron C. Waters |
Volcanoes Under
the Sea |
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1972 |
Theodore R. Sarbin |
Hypnosis: The Study of Believed-in Imaginings |
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1971 |
Joseph H. Silverman |
The Traditional Balladry of the Sephardic Jews: The History of a Collaborative Research Project |
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1970 |
Kenneth V. Thimann |
Oats, peas, beans and barley grow, Oats, peas, beans and barley grow, Can you or I or anyone know How oats, peas, beans and barley grow? |
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1969 |
Page Smith |
From Masses to Peoplehood: Women, Blacks and Students |
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1968 |
Albert Edward Whitford |
Man's Place in Space and Time |
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1967 |
Maurice Alexander Natanson |
Disenchantment and Transcendence |