Events

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Join us as we welcome Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band for his talk "Amah Mutsun Tribal History & Importance of Traditional Land Stewardship." Valentin Lopez is the Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, one of three historic tribes that are recognized as Ohlone. The Amah Mutsun are comprised of the […]

This talk attends to what the Subaltern Studies tradition begins to think and gives to our own times to think. The emergence of Subaltern Studies was part of the increasing prominence of the “New Social Movements,” new because they were focused more on oppression than exploitation. Recognizing this allows us to discern that the Subaltern […]

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 […]

From ancient times through abolition, scholars have often described slavery in the Mediterranean region as being relatively unaffected by the history of racial thought. Instead, many historians have focused on the decisive role played by religion. At the same time, however, it is undeniable that dark-skinned enslaved people occupied a more subordinate position in comparison […]