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Lise Getoor: “Responsible Data Science”
Lise Getoor: “Responsible Data Science”
The 53rd Annual Faculty Research Lecture will be given by Professor Lise Getoor on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at the Music Recital Hall in the Performing Arts Complex. "Responsible Data Science" Data science is an emerging discipline that offers both promise and peril. Responsible data science refers to efforts that address both the technical and […]
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Giving Day 2019
UC Santa Cruz Giving Day is an energized 24-hour giving drive to support students, staff, and faculty initiatives. Join us in the circle of Giving on February 27th 2019 from 12 a.m. - 11:59 p.m. #give2UCSC FIND A HUMANITIES PROJECT TO SUPPORT ON GIVING DAY: Center for Public Philosophy The Okinawa Memories Initiative The Center […]
Dee Hibbert-Jones: “Last Day of Freedom & Run With It”
Dee Hibbert-Jones: “Last Day of Freedom & Run With It”
Professor Hibbert-Jones will be screening her academy award nominated short film "Last Day of Freedom." When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision- should he call the police? Last Day of Freedom is a richly animated personal narrative that tells the story of Bill’s decision to stand […]
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International Women’s Day: Celebrating Feminist Scholarship from the Americas
International Women’s Day: Celebrating Feminist Scholarship from the Americas
The Research Center for the Americas and Feminist Collective of Sisters in the Borderlands invite you to join us as we celebrate International Women's Day with book talks by two leading feminist scholars. The first speaker is Dr. Ranita Ray of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas who will speak about her book The Making […]
Karen Tei Yamashita Celebration
Karen Tei Yamashita Celebration
Join us in a joyous celebration on the occasion of the retirement of Karen Tei Yamashita. Karen Tei Yamashita is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Living Writers reading featuring Karen Tei Yamashita, Seshu Foster, and testimonials from other UC Santa Cruz alumni. This event is sponsored by The […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alessia Cecchet
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alessia Cecchet
"Eating and Resurrecting the Goats: Animal bodies, death, and Western cultural practices" According to Norse mythology, two male goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, pull Thor's chariot. Once they have completed their labor, these animals can be eaten and resuscitated thereafter, in order to feed their god in an infinite loop of animal servitude. This myth epitomizes […]
Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i: The Detours Project
Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i: The Detours Project
Feminist Studies Colloquium: Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i - The Detours Project Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Friday, March 1 - HUM 1 room 210 12:00 to 2:00 pm Lunch will be provided Publishing Workshop: After the Colloquium, Prof. Gonzales, who is an Associate Editor of the American Quarterly journal, will conduct […]
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Robert Nichols: Dilemmas of Dispossession in the Black Radical Tradition
Robert Nichols: Dilemmas of Dispossession in the Black Radical Tradition
Numerous political and intellectual traditions have sought to leverage the language of self-ownership as a tool of radical critique, including Marxism, feminism, and Critical Race Theory. But do we 'own' ourselves in any meaningful or politically productive sense? This lecture considers the dilemmas involved in this question with particular reference to the Black Radical Tradition, […]
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Camilla Hawthorne: “On Diasporic Ethics- Locating the Black Mediterranean in Italian Citizenship Struggles”
Camilla Hawthorne: “On Diasporic Ethics- Locating the Black Mediterranean in Italian Citizenship Struggles”
This talk examines the possibilities and limitations of the “Black Mediterranean” (which emphasizes the power-laden relations of cultural exchange and racial violence linking Europe and Africa) as an analytical framework for understanding the historical and contemporary forms of racial criminalization and racialized citizenship in Italy. The emergent "Black Italian" movement in Italy has been increasingly […]
Stevenson College Winter 2019 Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Phillip L. Hammack
Stevenson College Winter 2019 Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Phillip L. Hammack
"Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Era of Radical Authenticity" Professor Phillip L. Hammock will present on findings that challenge traditional scientific paradigms—historically rooted in static, binary notions of gender and sexual identity—and call for new understandings of identity, community, and stigma. The twenty-first century is a time of heightened recognition of diversity in gender, sexuality, […]
Borderbus: A Community Conversation about Migration, Art, and Social Justice – A Conversation between Felicia Rice and Juan Felipe Herrera
Borderbus: A Community Conversation about Migration, Art, and Social Justice – A Conversation between Felicia Rice and Juan Felipe Herrera
Join recent U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and Santa Cruz book artist Felicia Rice in an exploration of the powerful role that poetry and art can play in conversations about the pressing issues of immigration, belonging, and home. Herrera and Rice will be joined in this community conversation by representatives of local groups working on social justice and […]
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Anne Donlon, “Making Scholarship Open with Humanities Commons”
Anne Donlon, “Making Scholarship Open with Humanities Commons”
Learn how scholars have used Humanities Commons to work in public and to publish open access work. Scholars have used Humanities Commons to support their work in a number of ways: finding collaborators, researching, drafting, sharing work in progress, getting informal and formal feedback, publishing on a Commons site, or sharing work published elsewhere in our open access repository. This presentation will explore several options for engaging a broader […]
Living Writers: Juan Felipe Herrera
Living Writers: Juan Felipe Herrera
Born on the migrant roads of Central California, Juan Felipe grew up in the literary centers of the new Latinx Civil Rights Movement - San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. There he was inspired by bilingual and Aztec, Mayan cultural roots, as well as urban, and multi-cultural and spoken word, jazz styles on community […]
Book Launch: Dana Frank, “The Long Honduran Night”
Book Launch: Dana Frank, “The Long Honduran Night”
Professor Dana Frank will join us to discuss and sign copies of her new book, The Long Honduran Night—a story of resistance, repression, and U.S. policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup. This powerful narrative recounts the dramatic years in Honduras following the June 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya, […]
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PhD+ Workshop Series: Building Online Identities with Humanities Commons with Anne Donlon
PhD+ Workshop Series: Building Online Identities with Humanities Commons with Anne Donlon
Humanities Commons can help you develop your online presence, expand the reach of your scholarship—whatever form it may take—and connect with other scholars who share your interests. Humanities Commons is a not-for-profit, scholar-run network for people in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to collaborate and share work. You can create a profile, connect with colleagues in groups, […]
Grad Slam
Grad Slam
UC Santa Cruz master’s and doctoral students are a force for innovation and new ideas that keep California in the forefront. Grad Slam is an annual contest to communicate research. It aims to make research accessible by providing emerging scientists and scholars with the skills to engage the public in their work. Participants are judged […]
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Linguistics at Santa Cruz 2019
About eight times each year, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For more information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
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Anne Norton; “Theses on Democracy or, The People, Steering”
Anne Norton; “Theses on Democracy or, The People, Steering”
Anne Norton is professor and department chair of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Norton is the author of seven books, including On the Muslim Question and 95 Theses on Politics, Culture and Method. She is Co-Founding Editor of the journal Theory and Event and on the executive board of the journal […]
Prof and a Pint: “Polarization and Public Discourse: How We Got Here and What We Do Now”
Prof and a Pint: “Polarization and Public Discourse: How We Got Here and What We Do Now”
Political discourse in the United States is devolving. From social media to Washington D.C. closed-mindedness, confirmation bias, and agenda-driven reasoning are undermining the possibility for constructive dialogue. Where do these destructive tendencies come from? Are they the result of a person’s upbringing, or intelligence, or education? A matter of their character? Our research is beginning […]
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Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Please note: this event was rescheduled from February 12 The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial, disembodied, […]
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Dai Jinhua: “On Twenty-first Century Postcolonialism”
Dai Jinhua: “On Twenty-first Century Postcolonialism”
Dai Jinhua’s lecture will address the place of post-colonial theory in the twenty-first century. This question is highly relevant to China, as it recalls the history of China’s involvement in the non-aligned movement, and subsequent efforts after the break with the Soviet Union to form third-world solidarities. But Dai calls into question whether the […]
Kevin McDonald, “Babbo and the Breadfruit: Plants, Oceans, and Empires in the Age of Enlightenment”
Kevin McDonald, “Babbo and the Breadfruit: Plants, Oceans, and Empires in the Age of Enlightenment”
At the end of the eighteenth century, a fantastic global plot was conjured up by a network of invested individuals that eventually reached the highest levels of the British state and the Admiralty. The plan: to transplant South Pacific breadfruit to the Caribbean Islands to feed the slaves of empire. Slaves grew sugar that […]
Book Talk: Carolyn Burke, Foursome
Book Talk: Carolyn Burke, Foursome
THI joins Bookshop Santa Cruz to welcome author Carolyn Burke for a discussion and signing of her new book, Foursome, a captivating, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities, passionate feelings, and aesthetic ideals drew them together, pulled them apart, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. This […]
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Matt Cook, “Depth-of-Field: Translating the benefits of Virtual Reality from the laboratory to the (higher-ed) classroom”
Matt Cook, “Depth-of-Field: Translating the benefits of Virtual Reality from the laboratory to the (higher-ed) classroom”
Increasingly accessible Virtual Reality technologies allow course content to be presented in context, at human scale, and responsive to the wide range of body-centered interactions. These representational characteristics, which define our engagement with real-world objects and environments, have been shown in the literature to improve performance on activities that overlap significantly with target learning outcomes […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Elizabeth Goldman
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Elizabeth Goldman
World of Robots: Child-Robot Interactions How do children interact with a robot? What features does a robot need to have to appeal to children? Will children help a robot complete a task? The project investigates child-root interactions- specifically how a robot's behavior will influence how a child responds. The designers which features should be included […]
Celebration of Life: Helene Moglen
Celebration of Life: Helene Moglen
Helene Moglen (March 22, 1936 – October 18, 2018) Please join us in the celebration of Helene's life as friend, colleague, teacher, community activist, mother, grandmother, spouse, former Provost of Kresge College, and former Dean of Humanities and Art. The celebration will include invited speakers, and an open microphone for individuals who want to share their […]
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The Maghrib Workshop: “Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging Part II”
The Maghrib Workshop: “Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging Part II”
The Maghrib Workshop: "Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging Part II" Program: UCSC Humanities 1, Room 210 Morning 8:30 - Transportation from Hotel to Humanities 1 by carpool. 9:00 - Coffee and Introduction 9:15 - Samia Errazouki (UC Davis, History) “Morocco’s Bloody ‘Golden Age’: Race, Slavery, and Capitalism in the 16th Century African Atlantic” […]
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Augmented Intelligence Summit: Steering the Future of AI
Today many of the concepts, consequences, and possibilities involved in a future with advanced AI feel distant, uncertain, and abstract. No one has all the answers about how to ensure that powerful AI in the future is beneficial, either in terms of technical implementation or in terms of transference to the domains of law, regulations […]
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Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion
Zakir Hussain: Masters of Percussion
Zakir Hussain is appreciated as one of the greatest musicians of our time. A classical tabla virtuoso of the highest order, his consistently brilliant and exciting performances have established him as a national treasure in India and he is one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors. Along with his legendary father and teacher, Ustad Allarakha, he has […]
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Laurie Halse Anderson Book Launch: SHOUT
Laurie Halse Anderson Book Launch: SHOUT
Event Photos by Crystal Birns: Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times bestselling author whose writing spans young readers, teens, and new adults. Combined, her books have sold more than 8 million copies. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award three times. Two of her books, Speak and Chains, were National Book […]