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A Conversation with Bay Area Journalist Joe Eskenazi

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

In partnership with City on a Hill Press and with support from The Humanities Institute and The Alumni Association, Kresge's Media and Society Series presents an evening with acclaimed journalist Joe Eskenazi, who will speak to the nuts and bolts of regionally rooted reporting, and survey several of his most impactful stories. Joe Eskenazi is […]

Katie Shilton – Trust, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

This meeting is scheduled for February 18th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker, Katie Shilton speaking on "Trust, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI." As the discourse on responsible and trustworthy AI intensifies, Participatory AI (PAI) presents a compelling approach to the democratic […]

Thomas Haigh–Artificial Intelligence: The Brand That Wouldn’t Die

Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Join us for this undergraduate-facing event at the Merrill Cultural Center featuring leading historian of computing, Thomas Haigh. He will contextualize the current Artificial Intelligence hype in the longer history of boom and bust for for the AI brand, critiquing claims made for large language models. Pizza will be served and all are welcome. Presented […]

Derek Penslar – Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State?

Virtual Event

Due to the atmospheric river event effecting  Santa Cruz County, this event will now take place via Zoom. Everyone who has RSVP'd for the event will receive a Zoom link. Anyone interested in attending the virtual event can register below using the "register" button.  The Center for Jewish Studies Presents The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture […]

Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens – Episode 1

Virtual Event

Join us for this year's, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606), a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton, Professor of English at the University of Montana, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play, will be the […]

Career Workshop: Using LinkedIn to Accelerate Your Career

Humanities 2, Room 259

LinkedIn can be a powerful tool to leverage in your career journey. Join us for a fast-paced and practical workshop where you'll learn how to create a professional and dynamic LinkedIn profile, as well as how to use various LinkedIn resources to improve your networking and job search skills! This event is presented by the […]

La Marr Jurelle Bruce – COME OUTSIDE: Black Love, Open Sky

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

This presentation is culled from The Afromantic: Black Love Out Yonder, a book-length cultural history, critical theory, aesthetic expression, and existential assertion of B/black love outside. The project will follow black love to cookouts, carnivals, rooftops, rallies, jazz funerals, cruising spots, garden plots, hush harbors, distant stars, and forest clearings—emphasizing ways of loving that escape […]

Deep Read Salon: Revisiting Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Virtual Event

Join us for a Deep Read salon on Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn featuring UC Santa Cruz Professor of Literature and Twain scholar, Susan Gillman. Prof. Gillman will discuss Twain's novel in the context of 19th-century popular literature and political history and explore its broader cultural influence and reach as our American idol and […]

Armen Khatchatourov – Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

Join us for a thought-provoking talk with Armen Khatchatourov on "Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems." If you are unable to make it in person, you can attend virtually via Zoom. The rapid proliferation of AI-based systems has transformed how we understand and relate to […]

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: “Primary Wonder: Spirituality, Art, and Nature” with Douglas E. Christie

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

Join us for the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Primary Wonder: Spirituality, Art, and Nature" with Douglas E. Christie, Professor Emeritus in the Theological Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University. "Primary wonder." Poet Denise Levertov describes this as the feeling that sometimes arises within us when we encounter "the mystery/that there is anything, anything […]