Events
Book Presentation: Jai Sen’s The Movements of Movements
Humanities 1, Room 202Join us as Jai Sen discusses his ambitious anthology on social movements with a panel of commentators including Michelle Glowa (CIIS), Deborah Gould (UCSC), and Patrick King (UCSC). Jai Sen is an activist/researcher/author on and in movement. Earlier an organizer, then a researcher into popular movement, for the past decade and more he has worked to promote […]
Peter Limbrick: “For a New Nahda – Moumen Smihi, World Cinema, and Arab Modernism”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDr. Limbrick’s forthcoming book on Moumen Smihi connects the Moroccan filmmaker’s modernism to the Nahda or “Arab Renaissance” of the 19th-20th century, which re-energized Arab culture in dialogue with other languages and discourses. Offering new ways to think about world cinema and modernism in the region, Limbrick argues that Smihi’s radically beautiful films take […]
Algorithms, Mobility, and Justice
Engineering 2, Room 599 Engineering 2 Building @ UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAre moral algorithms a reasonable solution for taking advantage of life-saving potentials of self-driving cars? In this talk, Neda Atanasoski (UCSC Professor of Feminist Studies) will engage the utilitarian framings that are dominant in the discourses on self-driving cars inclusive of the assumptions that are folded into the question above: that algorithms can be moral […]
Invitation and Object: Reframing the Study of Palestine
Humanities 1, Room 202"Welcome to Gaza: On the Politics of Invitation and the Right to Tourism" Jennifer Kelly, Associate Professor, UCSC In between Israeli military incursions, Palestinians in Gaza have described their colonial condition and navigated their cleavage from the rest of Palestine through virtual collaborative projects that rehearse, satirize, and reimagine tourism. These projects refuse to position […]
Living Writers: Duy Doan & Angie Sijun Lou
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDuy Doan is a Vietnamese American poet and the author of We Play a Game, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has appeared in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Slate, and TriQuarterly. A Kundiman fellow, he received an MFA in poetry from Boston University, where he later served as director of […]
Stuart Russell: “Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence”
Nat. Sci Annex Auditorium 101 Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStuart Russell will survey recent and expected developments in AI and their implications. Some are enormously positive, while others, such as the development of autonomous weapons and the replacement of […]
PhD+ Workshop: Values Driven Pedagogy
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDefining a Values Driven Pedagogy Practice with Kendra Dority (CITL, UCSC Lit PhD) This workshop invites participants to consider how teaching can be a site in which we define, cultivate, and […]
Interdisciplinary Graduate Writing: Challenges and Strategies II
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDo you struggle with dissertation writing? Us too! This workshop will provide a peer-led space for conversation among graduate students engaged in interdisciplinary dissertation writing in the humanities and humanistic […]
Muriam Davis: “Colonial Genealogies of Racial Neoliberalism – Governing for the Market in Algeria, 1958-1965”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesProf. Davis’s current work studies how French attempts to introduce a market economy during the Algerian War of Independence transformed the prevailing understandings of racial difference organized around Islam. It […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Gorka Elordieta
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesGorka Elordieta, University of Basque Country More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html