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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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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 […]
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POSTPONED – Elizabeth Marcus: “The Arrest of Ziad Doueiri and the Laws of Cultural Critique”
POSTPONED – Elizabeth Marcus: “The Arrest of Ziad Doueiri and the Laws of Cultural Critique”
Elizabeth Marcus is a Mellon Fellow in the Scholars in the Humanities program for 2017-2019. She received her BA from the University of Oxford in Modern History and French, and completed her PhD in French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2017. Her research and teaching focus on the francophone and Arab worlds, with a […]
POSTPONED: Counterpoints Book Launch
POSTPONED: Counterpoints Book Launch
Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement An Atlas by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project This event will feature members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will be offering a preview of their new atlas manuscript, Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement, which will be released by PM Press in the spring […]
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Barry Lam – Fighting the Future: The Philosophy of Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Justice
Barry Lam – Fighting the Future: The Philosophy of Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Justice
At different stages of the criminal justice system, from policing, bail hearings, and sentencing, computerized algorithms are replacing human decision-making in determining where to police, who to arrest, who goes to jail, and who goes free. This talk will introduce people to how these algorithms work, the under-appreciated moral problems with their implementation, and how […]
Living Writers: Roger Reeves
Living Writers: Roger Reeves
Roger Reeves received an M.F.A. in creative writing and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas, Austin.Roger Reeves's poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House, among others. Kim Addonizio selected “Kletic of Walt Whitman” for the Best New Poets 2009 anthology. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the […]
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2nd Annual Grad Student Conference: “Citizenship in Flux: Migration and Exclusion in World History, 1750-2019”
2nd Annual Grad Student Conference: “Citizenship in Flux: Migration and Exclusion in World History, 1750-2019”
The rise of nativist or nationalist movements in many countries and the closing of borders to migrants seeking refuge from persecution, war, and violence calls into question the world historical context of migration, borders, and political belonging. This conference queries citizenship and borders across time and region to make sense of their implications for citizens, […]
PhD+ Workshop – The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum
PhD+ Workshop – The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum
The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum with Adam Casdin (Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY) Independent high schools, committed to the humanities and able to develop and introduce major curricular initiatives quickly, may be students last experience of a broad-based, non-professionalized education. What does the future of teaching and learning look […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Sandy Chung
Linguistics Colloquia: Sandy Chung
Sandy Chung, UC Santa Cruz, is committed to the idea that lesser-studied languages have as much to contribute to syntactic theory as do languages like English, French, and Italian. These interests have shaped her research on syntactic theory and Austronesian languages. Chung began doing fieldwork on Maori, Tongan, and Samoan (all languages of the South […]
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Bernard Harcourt: “The Counterrevolution Takes a New Right Turn”
Bernard Harcourt: “The Counterrevolution Takes a New Right Turn”
Bernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist and social justice advocate. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University. He is also a Directeur d’études (chaired professor) […]
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Doing Scholarship in Public: Podcasts, Print Media, and the Urgency of the Humanities
Doing Scholarship in Public: Podcasts, Print Media, and the Urgency of the Humanities
An informal conversation and open Q & A with Barry Lam about his work as a public scholar, launching a podcast, and his advice about getting started in public scholarship.
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Vanessa Ogle: “‘Funk Money’: Decolonization and the Expansion of Tax Havens, 1950s-1960”
Vanessa Ogle: “‘Funk Money’: Decolonization and the Expansion of Tax Havens, 1950s-1960”
This talk explores the emergence of modern offshore tax havens as a way to reopen the history of the decades ca. 1920s-1980s. During these decades an archipelago of distinct legal spaces appeared in a world otherwise increasingly dominated by more sizable nation-states. Tax havens were particularly important among these spaces, reaching from the Channel […]
Counterpoints Book Launch
Counterpoints Book Launch
Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement An Atlas by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project This event will feature members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will be offering a preview of their new atlas manuscript, Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement, which will be released by PM Press in the spring […]
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Ahmed Kanna: “De-Exceptionalizing the Arab Gulf: Bringing back Class Struggle & Social Reproduction”
Ahmed Kanna: “De-Exceptionalizing the Arab Gulf: Bringing back Class Struggle & Social Reproduction”
Discourses of urban knowledge professionals (architects, PR professionals, etc.) on the Arab Gulf city have framed this city as an “laboratory,” a “sci-fi” space, and generally have disconnected the space from its social and historical contexts. In this paper I argue that a Marxist or class struggle perspective can best highlight how such discourses […]
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Susanah Shaw Romney, “Unfree Intimacies: Gender and the Taking of Terraqueous Space at Batavia in the Seventeenth Century”
Susanah Shaw Romney, “Unfree Intimacies: Gender and the Taking of Terraqueous Space at Batavia in the Seventeenth Century”
Colonization is not a one-time land grab, but rather an ongoing process of claiming space. Batavia, as the Dutch urban port city on Java in the seventeenth century was known, provides an opportunity to explore the role of gender in this unfolding process. There, the appropriation of local and regional terraqueous space relied on […]
Living Writers: Wendy Trevino and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
Living Writers: Wendy Trevino and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
Wendy Trevino is the author of Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions, 2018). She hails from the Rio Grande Valley and works as a grant writer in San Francisco, California, where she lives.Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives & works as a grant writer in San Francisco. […]
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Linguistics Colloquia: Laura McPherson
Linguistics Colloquia: Laura McPherson
Laura McPherson, is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics program at Dartmouth College. McPherson finished her Ph.D. at UCLA in 2014, with the dissertation Replacive grammatical tone in the Dogon languages. Her primary research interests lie in phonology, morphology, and fieldwork/language documentation. She published her first reference grammar, A Grammar of Tommo So, in 2013 based […]
Graduate Research Symposium Award Reception
Graduate Research Symposium Award Reception
Come celebrate the announcement of the winners of this year's Graduate Research Symposium. Live music, light refreshments. Free and open to the public
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Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award Luncheon and Career Paths Panel
Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award Luncheon and Career Paths Panel
11:30am-12:50pm Annual award luncheon for five distinguished graduate student alumni, one from each academic division. This year's luncheon will include a panel discussion with the five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees about their career trajectories after receiving their graduate-level degree from UCSC to their current positions of distinction, for the benefit of audience members of current […]
Jody Greene: “Radical Learning – The Heart of the UC Santa Cruz Experience”
Jody Greene: “Radical Learning – The Heart of the UC Santa Cruz Experience”
This event will review the bold and radical educational vision of UC Santa Cruz since its inception, while introducing alumni to the innovative 21st-century approaches we are taking to ensure all students can thrive at UC Santa Cruz and leave with the tools to make change in society. We will emphasize the university's history of […]