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SUMMARY:Privacy’s Defender: Fight Against Digital Surveillance with Cindy Cohn
DESCRIPTION:Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights. She’s tangled with federal officials to keep our online conversations secure from the government’s prying eyes\, fought to ensure that you are told when your information has been turned over to the government\, and argued before judges to protect our right to speak and to share science and knowledge on the internet. \nIn Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (MIT Press)\, Cindy weaves her own personal story with her role as a leading legal voice representing the rights and interests of technology users\, innovators\, whistleblowers\, and researchers during the Crypto Wars of the 1990s\, battles over NSA’s dragnet internet spying revealed in the 2000s\, and the fight against FBI gag orders. \nDuring this national book tour\, Cindy will be at UC Santa Cruz to give a book talk on May 19\, 2026 from 12:00-1:30 pm. \n \nFree and open to the public with registration. This event is both in-person and virtual. \nCindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, which works to ensure that technology supports freedom\, justice and innovation for all the people of the world. Before becoming Executive Director a decade ago\, Cindy was the organization’s Legal Director from 2000-2015\, and led the organization’s impact litigation work on bringing balance to copyright law\, stopping mass spying and protecting freedom of expression online. She’s won many awards for her work and even more court decisions. \n\nInstitute for Social Transformation\, The Humanities Institute\, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS)\, and the Security Research Lab.
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LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on Entangled Life
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty\, Professors Benjamin Breen (History)\, Gregory Gilbert (Environmental Studies)\, and Donna Haraway (History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies) will give brief presentations and discuss Entangled Life with the Deep Read community in a Q&A moderated by Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, Laura Martin. Participants can also attend virtually. \n \nIn person at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Doors open at 5:30pm. \nEvent Logistics: Bicycling\, carpooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited on campus. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or #116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and the Hay Barn entrance. Overflow parking will be available in lot #122. View the campus parking map here. \n\nAdditional Events of Interest: \nThe Literature and Poetics of Fungi Salon: On May 26\, 2026\, at 6pm\, we will hold a salon at the Hay Barn focused on the literary and poetic influence of fungi and its relation to Entangled Life. The salon will feature Professors Cole\, Hillman\, Palmer\, and Tseng in conversation with moderator Laura Martin and the Deep Read community. Participants can also attend virtually. \nAuthor Event – A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake:  On May 31\, 2026\, at 4pm\, we will welcome Merlin Sheldrake to the Quarry Amphitheater on campus where he will be in conversation with Associate Professor of History\, Benjamin Breen. This will be an in-person event\, and\, as always\, it will be free and open to the public. \n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
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