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SUMMARY:Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute Research cluster\, “Humanities in the Age of AI\,” is pleased to invite you to their first lunch meeting of the quarter scheduled for January 8th (Monday) at noon in HUM 210. \nThe research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes six esteemed faculty members from various disciplines\, graduate students representing politics\, history\, literature\, philosophy\, feminist studies\, and film and visual studies\, and undergraduate scholars from computer science\, computational media\, and creative writing. \nThe Humanities Institute (THI) will graciously cater lunch. Once we have obtained our meals\, we will gather and take our seats. 10 minutes have been set aside to elucidate the cluster’s overview. Following this\, we will go ahead with individual introductions. After a short five-minute recess\, Magy Seif El-Nasr and Mark Howard will begin their presentations\, anticipated to last for approximately 20 minutes. A structured dialogue on the topic will follow. \nMagy Seif El-Nasr is a professor and department chair of computational media at the Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She directs the Game User Interaction and Intelligence (GUII) Lab. Dr. Seif El-Nasr earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Computer Science in 2003. Her research focuses on two goals (a) developing automated tools and techniques for authoring\, adapting\, and personalizing virtual environments (e.g.\, interactive narrative\, believable agents\, and games)\, and (b) developing evidence-based methodologies to measure the effectiveness of game environments through the development of novel process mining and visual analytics systems. During her tenure\, she worked in AI\, data science\, and HCI. She has explored the impact of AI technologies and their designs from a humanistic and social science perspective toward understanding how to design better AI systems that can be useful for users. \nMark Howard is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Politics and History of Consciousness departments at UC Santa Cruz. He previously studied philosophy at Macquarie University and International Relations Theory at the LSE\, and prior to that worked as a technology management consultant in the financial services industry. Disciplinary interests include political economy\, political and social theory\, critical theory\, and continental philosophy. His dissertation is a critical study of venture capital as a means\, mode\, practice and process of social reproduction and renewal. His primary concern with AI stems from current attempts (backed by venture capital) to win market dominance and monopoly over the AI space\, and how commercial tools are being framing as a part of a socially necessary future. Also of interest is how proponents of AI tools are promoting complementary facilities to deal with social dislocation\, such as a cryptocurrency-based Universal Basic Income to soften the blow of AI-induced “post-employment.” \nFor those who prefer to schedule in advance\, please note the dates for our brown bag meetings throughout the academic year: 10/2 (lunch provided)\, 11/6\, 12/11\, 1/8 (lunch provided)\, 2/12 (featuring Davide Panagia)\, 3/4\, 4/8 (lunch provided)\, and 5/6. THI will graciously cater on the three specified dates. For the remaining meetings\, attendees are cordially invited to bring their lunch. We are honored to have Professor Davide Panagia from UCLA present on 2/12; arrangements are underway to secure another external speaker for a subsequent session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-in-the-age-of-ai-lunch-meeting-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-01-10/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240110T140000
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SUMMARY:UCHRI Grants Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on January 10\, 2024 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. for information about and a chance to workshop proposal ideas for UCHRI grants. The session will be led by Research Development Specialist for the Humanities\, Caitlin Charos and Sara Černe\, Research Grants Manager for the UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). \nSara will give a brief introduction to UCHRI\, and Caitlin will provide an overview of UCHRI-specific best practices. Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, THI Research Programs and Communications Manager\, will provide information on how THI can support a successful proposal. \nIntroductory remarks will be followed by faculty questions and a brief workshopping of ideas. \n  \nWe hope to see you there! \nPlease register in advance here: \n \n  \n*UCHRI proposals do not need to go through OSP\, but we encourage you to reach out to Caitlin for assistance in developing your application. Proposals to the following programs are due to UCHRI on January 31\, 2024: \n\n\n\nPROGRAM NAME\nELIGIBILITY\nDEADLINE\n\n\nSupplemental Multicampus Faculty Working Group Care & Repair Funding\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nMulticampus Faculty Working Groups\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nJr. Faculty Manuscript Workshop\, 2024-25\nUC junior faculty (tenure track but not yet tenured) in the humanities or humanistic social sciences who are currently completing their first book project\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nGraduate Student Dissertation Support\, 2024-25\nUC humanities and humanistic social science PhD students in good standing who have advanced to candidacy and completed at least one chapter of their dissertation\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nFaculty Summer Research Funding\, 2024\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nEngaging Humanities Grant\, 2024–25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nConference Grant\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nUC Underrepresented Scholars Fellowship\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nSupplemental Multicampus Faculty Working Group Graduate Student Funding\, 2024-25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nShort-Term Collaborative Research Residency\, 2024–25\nUC Ladder Rank Faculty\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nMulticampus Graduate Student Working Groups\, 2024-25\nUC humanities PhD students in good standing throughout the 2024-25 academic year\, in conjunction with a faculty member who has agreed in advance to serve in the role of Principal Investigator (PI)\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nMedicine & Humanities: The Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Graduate Student Scholarship\, 2024–25\nUC PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences in good standing working on a medicine-focused dissertation project\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nClimate Action Training and Summer Dissertation Fellowship\, 2024-25\nUC humanities and humanistic social science PhD students in good standing who have advanced to candidacy\nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\nExperimental Critical Theory Seminar\, Spring 2024\nUC humanities and humanistic social science PhD students in good standing \nJan 31\, 2024\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/uchri-grants-workshop/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – Using Generative AI for Research in the Humanities
DESCRIPTION:This informal\, practical workshop will survey how generative AI tools like GPT-4 and Claude can be used in humanistic research. Large Language Models (LLMs) such as these have a well-documented tendency to “hallucinate” information when prompted in certain ways. But if employed thoughtfully and with an awareness of their limitations\, they represent a significant new tool for researchers in the humanities. For instance\, GPT-4 is able to translate and summarize text far more accurately than the previous state of the art — and crucially\, it can do so even when presented with imperfect\, archaic\, or flawed transcriptions\, such as in the case of text pulled from photographs of archival documents or digitized premodern books. GPT-4 is also able to turn spreadsheets or other forms of quantitative data into visualizations and perform surprisingly sophisticated analysis of visual sources\, not to mention basic transcription of handwritten texts. Finally\, new AI speech recognition tools like Whisper now allow for rapid transcription of oral history interviews and other recordings. We will cover the specific use cases of translation\, summarization\, transcription\, and image analysis with an eye toward the specific ways that AI can contribute to the research goals of participants. \nPlease come with an internet-connected device\, preferably a laptop\, and sign up for both ChatGPT and Claude before the workshop (both are free). Suggested reading: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/generative-ai-for-historical-research. \n  \nBenjamin Breen is an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz interested in the history of globalization\, science\, drugs\, and the long-term impacts of technological change. My book The Age of Intoxication (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2019) explores how drug users and sellers in the British and Portuguese empires helped to shape imperialism\, global trade\, and scientific practice in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It won the 2021 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine and is available in hardcover\, paperback\, and ebook formats. Trained as a historian of the early modern era\, I am currently working on two book projects (one a cultural and intellectual history of experimental drug researchers during the Cold War\, another on the entanglements between colonialism\, climate change\, and the concept of magic between 1600 and 1900).  \n\nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nPlease join us for the eighth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by the Humanities Institute. We meet monthly\, over lunch\, to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more..  \n\nThis event will be held in-person in Humanities 1\, Room 210.  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-using-generative-ai-for-research-in-the-humanities/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Six – Politics and Prophecy: Past\, Present\, and Future (Paradiso 15–18)
DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n  \nThe Rev’d Dr Claire Honess is an ordained priest in the Church of England and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds (UK)\, where she was until 2021 Professor of Italian Studies. Her research focuses on the intersections between Dante’s political thought\, his theological understanding\, and his poetic innovation: themes that come together in particularly interesting ways in the canti of Cacciaguida in Paradiso. She is the author of From Florence to the Heavenly City: The Poetry of Citizenship in Dante (Legenda\, 2006) and the translator of four of Dante’s political letters (MHRA\, 2007) and of numerous articles on related themes. Before her ordination\, she taught at the Universities of London\, Reading and Leeds\, and served as Head of the School of Languages\, Cultures and Societies and Dean of the Doctoral College at the latter. She served as Senior Editor of the journal The Italianist\, Chair of the Society for Italian Studies\, and was a co-founder and co-director of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies. \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-six-politics-and-prophecy-past-present-and-future-paradiso-15-18/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-01-17/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240117T120000
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SUMMARY:Muriam Haleh Davis – The Absent Preface: Algerian Readings of Frantz Fanon after Independence
DESCRIPTION:In 1959\, Ferhat Abbas\, the President of the GPRA (Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic)\, refused Frantz Fanon’s request to write a preface for L’An V de la révolution algérienne. This never-written preface is emblematic of a larger silence regarding the lively Algerian debates on Fanon’s writings after independence. By foregrounding North African interpretations of Fanon’s work\, this talk asks a series of questions about the capture of revolutionary thought\, the role of national frameworks in global intellectual history\, and the possibilities of epistemological “delinking.” \nMuriam Haleh Davis is an Associate Professor of History at UCSC. Her first book\, Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria\, was published by Duke University Press in 2022. She has also co-edited North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance\, Institutions\, and Culture\, which was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2018. Her academic writing has been published by the Journal of Modern Intellectual History\, Middle East Critique\, the Journal of Contemporary History\, Lateral\, and 20 et 21: Revue d’histoire. She has also authored pieces for the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Al Jazeera English\, Public Books\, and Truth Out. She is co-chair of the editorial committee for MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) and is co-editor of the Maghreb Page for Jadaliyya. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/muriam-haleh-davis-the-absent-preface-algerian-readings-of-frantz-fanon-after-independence/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. D. B. Maroon -  Black Lives\, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Our own UCSC alumna\, Dr. D. B. Maroon (PhD Anthropology\, 2006) will talk about her newly released book\, Black Lives\, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience. This talk will take place in the Humanities Building\, Room 210 on January 17th from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. \nD. B. Maroon is an author\, anthropologist\, and speaker. Recognized for evoking the literary and ethnographic grace of Zora Neale Hurston with a bold fusion of cultural observation and sun-woven truth-telling\, D.B. Maroon writes critical essays\, poetry\, and fiction. Her work has been published in Spirit and Flame: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry; Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay Lesbian Identity; and Publics\, Politics\, and Participation. \nD.B. Maroon’s\, Black Lives\, American Love delivers relentless truth-telling and timely discussions that will provoke and inspire you. This book is a hard-hitting personal biography of America\, Blackness\, and racial politics. From an opening essay on the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement to debates on the 1619 project and the rippling impact of resurgent white nationalism\, the golden thread of each essay is a call to greater truth as the first step toward reconciliation. \nPlease contact Megan Moodie (mmoodie@ucsc.edu) for an excerpt of the book. \nThere will also be a limited-space\, in-person workshop the following day\, January 18th\, where DB Maroon will share her insights on writing and publishing beyond the academic world. This workshop is open to faculty and graduate students\, sponsored by THI\, the Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice MRPI\, and Anthropology. Graduate students and faculty can register for free via Eventbrite.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-d-b-maroon-black-lives-american-love/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Graduate Alumni: Emma Wood\, Jared Harvey\, Eric Sneathen\, Connor Bassett\, Jose Antonio Villará
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\n \nC Dylan Bassett‘s first novel\, Gad’s Book\, was published in 2023. His writing has appeared in Chicago Review\, Quarterly West\, Denver Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati. \n  \n  \n  \n \nJared Joseph’s most recent writing has been published in The Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Iowa Review\, and Action. His A Book About Myself Called Hell was published by Kernpunkt Press in 2022\, and his novel Danny the Ambulance was published by Outpost 19 in 2023. Jared Joseph teaches at Los Angeles City College and lives in Los Angeles where he writes\, plays music\, and drinks coffee like it’s a hot dog eating contest. \n  \nEric Sneathen is the author of the poetry collections Don’t Leave Me This Way (Nightboat 2023) and Snail Poems (Krupskaya 2016)\, as well as a number of chapbooks\, including Minor Work (MO(0)ON/IO 2022). With Daniel Benjamin\, he organized Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today and co-edited the companion volume\, The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman Books 2017). He also co-edited\, with Lauren Levin\, Honey Mine (Nightboat 2021)\, the collected fictions of Camille Roy. His reviews have been featured at the Poetry Foundation and SF MoMA’s Open Space\, and his dissertation—”The Future Unites Us: A Gay Poetics of San Francisco\, 1944-2019″—is being revised for publication. He lives in Alameda\, CA and works for UCSC as the Graduate Program Coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies. \n  \nJose Antonio Villarán has bilingual fluency (English – Spanish) as a writer\, scholar\, translator and instructor. He is the author of two books of poetry: la distancia es siempre la misma (2006) & el cerrajero (2012); one book of translation\, Album of Fences (2018); and creator of the AMLT project (http://amlt-elcomienzo.blogspot.pe)\, an exploration of hypertext literature and collective authorship. His third book\, titled open pit\, was published by AUB in 2022 and was nominated for a Northern California Book Award. \n  \nOriginally from New York City\, Emma Winsor Wood holds a BA from Harvard in Russian History & Literature and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she taught literature and poetry writing. Her recent work appears in Fence\, ZYZZVA\, jubilat\, and DIAGRAM\, and her first book\, A Failed Performance: Short Plays and Scenes by Daniil Kharms\, a collaborative translation with the poet C Dylan Bassett\, was recently published by Plays Inverse Press. Her poetry manuscript\, Preferred Internal Landscape\, has been named a finalist in the CSU\, BOAAT\, Switchback Books\, Noemi Press\, Zone 3\, and the University of Wisconsin book contests.  She currently lives\, with her husband and their two dogs\, in the Santa Cruz mountains\, where she also works as an editor for Stone Soup Magazine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-graduate-alumni-emma-wood-jared-harvey-eric-sneathen-connor-bassett-jose-antonio-villara/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:CruzHacks 2024 Hackathon
DESCRIPTION:CruzHacks is the largest hackathon in Santa Cruz! Each year\, hundreds of students are invited to develop solutions to real-world problems\, pursue inclusion in tech\, and kindle the spirit of innovation. \nCruzHacks was founded in 2013 as Hack UCSC by Mark Adams\, Brent Haddad\, and Doug Erickson. In 2018\, Hack UCSC was rebranded as CruzHacks\, and became a student-led non-profit hackathon. Throughout the years\, CruzHacks/Hack UCSC has sparked innovation and creativity from attendees and has even been the source of a few start-up companies. \nCruzHacks 2024 is a three-day event where you can work with others on new software and/or hardware projects. You’ll be able to build your ideas\, network\, and show off your talent. There are hundreds of students\, mentors\, sponsors\, and judges that can help push your vision forward. The event also includes workshops geared towards students of all levels to learn and improve their technical skills.  CruzHacks 2024 starts Friday night and ends Sunday afternoon. This year\, it will take place on January 19 – 21 at Stevenson Event Center\, UCSC. \nFor more information about the event and FAQ’s visit CruzHacks. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, UCSC Humanities\, Baskin Engineering\, Cruz Foam\, UCSC Division of Student Affairs and Success\, and many more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cruzhacks-2024-hackathon/
LOCATION:Stevenson Event Center
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240122T140000
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SUMMARY:Stefan Tanaka: What Do Pasts Do? Toward Potential History
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is delighted to present: What Do Pasts Do? Toward Potential History with Stefan Tanaka. \nThis talk is a part of the HISC Winter 2024 Speaker Series. It builds from recent work on time and history that question whether the history understood and practiced over the past two centuries is still apposite for understanding our world today. \nAn increasing number of writings argue that “time is out of joint\,” we are “fatally confused\,” in “times of unprecedented change\,” or more troubling\, “in times of collapse.” My subtitle–drawing from Ariella Azoulay’s book–points to the need for other modes of historical understanding. In this essay\, I question a foundational ideas of modern history\, the separation of past from present\, and argue for pasts rather than “the past.” With this rather simple (but difficult) distinction time and space shift from absolutes within which we exist to modes by which we think; other histories become possible. \nMy goal is to explore what history (and histories) might become\, the potential of history released from the restrictions of chronology. Multiple pasts recognize variability\, situatedness\, and perspectives; history expands (or returns) to a mode of communication; and pasts require greater articulation of purpose and awareness of responsibility. \n  \nStefan Tanaka is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of California\, San Diego. Throughout his career he has inquired into the uses of pasts and time in the writing of history\, especially in Japan. Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History (1993)\, examines the reconfiguration of Japan’s past as foundational to the redefinition of Japan’s relations with Asia during the early twentieth century. New Times in Modern Japan (2004) is an examination of the social constitution of time in Meiji (1868-1912) Japan. His current research examines the challenge that our digital age presents for history itself. This activity ranges from the philosophical to the practical. His recent book\, History without Chronology (2019\, Open Access)\, brings out the historicity of the linear and homogenizing structure of history itself. He has also written several essays on historical narrative and digital media (for example\, “The Old and New of Digital History” 2022) and worked (especially with the Force11 community) to foster new\, more open modes of scholarly communication. \nThe event will take place in-person in Humanities 1\, Room 420 at 2:00pm PST. Guests are also welcome to visit the HISC website to join virtually via Zoom. We look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stefan-tanaka-what-do-pasts-do-toward-potential-history/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Breen - Tripping on Utopia
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Benjamin Breen\, associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz\, for a discussion and signing of his new book\, Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead\, the Cold War\, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science. \nBenjamin Breen is the author of The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade\, winner of the 2021 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine. He is an associate professor of history at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nThis free event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Please register below so we can plan for your arrival and keep in touch with any changes. Thank you! \n \nFar from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as\, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the ’40s and ’50s\, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture\, where they were not only legal\, but openly celebrated. American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth. \nAt the center of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologists—and star-crossed lovers—Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster\, Mead and Bateson made it their life’s mission to reshape humanity through a new science of consciousness expansion\, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work\, whose intentions were less than pure. Mead and Bateson’s partnership unlocks an untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century\, linking drug researchers with CIA agents\, outsider sexologists\, and the founders of the Information Age. \nAs we follow Mead and Bateson’s fractured love affair from the malarial jungles of New Guinea to the temples of Bali\, from the espionage of WWII to the scientific revolutions of the Cold War\, a new origin story for psychedelic science emerges. \nYou can purchase your own copy of Tripping On Utopia at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/benjamin-breen-tripping-on-utopia/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-01-24/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T120000
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SUMMARY:January 24 – Mengyang (Zoe) Zhao – Verify You Are Human: How Video Game Automation Intensifies Extraction of Platform Game Work
DESCRIPTION:Part of a broader book project on the rise of platform video game work in China\, this study examines the impact of automation fears on escalating labor extraction from gaming service workers. It reveals that platform workers are compelled to demonstrate their “pure manual” services\, amidst concerns over automated tools infiltrating the industry. Such pressures lead to practices like live streaming and performing slowness as human labor validation\, inadvertently increasing hidden labor and the risk of harassment. This study advocates for recognizing validation labor in explicating automation and labor control in the platform economy\, and underscores evolving human-machine dynamics in the global data work landscape. \nZoe Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. Their interdisciplinary research centers on digital labor\, platformization\, and social movements\, with a particular focus on new forms of work\, technology\, diaspora and labor activism under platform and venture capitalism. Their art practice leverages gamification to reimagine ways of commoning and queering the care infrastructure. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/january-24-mengyang-zoe-zhao-verify-you-are-human-how-video-game-automation-intensifies-extraction-of-platform-game-work/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Undergraduate Alumna Sina Grace
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers – Winter 2024 – Return of the Beloved: An Alumni Series\nSina Grace is the author and illustrator of the autobiographical Self-Obsessed\, and Not My Bag\, which recounts a story of retail hell. He acts as the artist for Shaun Steven Struble’s cult hit\, The Li’l Depressed Boy\, and handles art chores along with co-writing the Image Comics hit series\, Burn the Orphanage. \nGrace has also done illustrations for all-ages readers\, including Among the Ghosts\, written by Amber Benson\, and Penny Dora & the Wishing Box\, written by Michael Stock. His previous works include the slice-of-life Books with Pictures\, and the neo-noir urban fantasy\, Cedric Hollows in Dial M for Magic. For a time\, he acted as Editorial Director for Robert Kirkman’s Skybound imprint at Image Comics. To date\, he’s worked for Marvel Comics\, IDW\, Boom\, Dynamite\, Valiant and more. His essays have appeared on several websites\, most notably Thought Catalog. \nHe lives in Los Angeles\, where he can be found in coffee shops working on whatever the next thing may be.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/68037/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240125T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240125T193000
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SUMMARY:Reza Aslan - An American Martyr in Persia
DESCRIPTION:In 1907\, educator and American missionary Howard Baskerville traveled to Iran in the midst of a democratic revolution led by a group of brilliant young firebrands committed to transforming their country. The Persian students Baskerville educated inspired him to join them in their fight. Reza Aslan speaks with Jennifer Derr about Baskerville’s story and what it might teach us about our own ideals of constitutional democracy and whose freedom we support. \n \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nReza Aslan is a renowned writer\, commentator\, professor\, Emmy- and Peabody-nominated producer\, and scholar of religions. A recipient of the prestigious James Joyce award\, Aslan is the author of three internationally best-selling books\, including the #1 New York Times Bestseller\, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. His producing credits include the acclaimed HBO series The Leftovers and the hit CBS comedy United States of Al. He is the host and Executive Producer of CNN’s Believer and Rough Draft with Reza Aslan\, as well as co-host along with Rainn Wilson of the podcast Metaphysical Milkshake. Read Reza’s full bio here. \nPresented by the Center for Middle East and North Africa\, and co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute and Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nEvent logistics: Bicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited. 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 Barn entrances. Overflow parking will be available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 18\, 2024.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/reza-aslan-an-american-martyr-in-persia/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Project Paradiso: A Gateway to Dante’s Heaven - Episode Seven – Justice for All (Paradiso 19–21)
DESCRIPTION:Dante’s Paradiso is the least studied and the least understood of the three parts of the Commedia. Yet it is arguably the most important for the dynamism and originality of the literary\, theological\, and philosophical inquiries that take place there. It is also a singularly important interpretive guide for a full understanding of the entire Commedia. It is a poem that asks to be tackled by a community of engaged readers: here it’s your opportunity! This year-long series of webinar workshops led by world-renowned scholars will take you on a deep reading of the Paradiso and an unforgettable journey to the heart of Dante’s universe. This virtual series will reward both first-time and expert readers of the Commedia with an opportunity to delve deep into one of the most complex and daring speculative poems ever written. We’ll be meeting online almost every other week from October to May. See the Project Paradiso page for full schedule. \n \n  \nAkash Kumar is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research focuses on medieval Italian literature through the lens of Mediterranean and global culture\, from the history of science to the origins of popular phenomena such as the game of chess. Recent work on a global Dante has appeared in the volume Migrants Shaping Europe\, Past and Present (Manchester UP\, 2022)\, MLN (2022)\, and the Blackwell Companion to World Literature (2020). Akash also serves as Editor of Dante Notes\, the digital publication of the Dante Society of America. \n  \nPresented by the Humanities Institute and the Department of Literature Italian Studies. Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, Siegfried and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, and Porter College
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/project-paradiso-a-gateway-to-dantes-heaven-episode-seven-justice-for-all-paradiso-19-21/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240128T130000
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SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Pickwick Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Santa Cruz Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Pickwick Club for our monthly Pickwick Club meeting. New this year\, we will be devoting an entire year to one novel instead of two\, and will dive deeply into Great Expectations. Join Dickens enthusiasts and Pickwick Club members for a series of discussions about this book. \n \nCharles Dickens depicts how a gentleman is made\, not born\, in this novel. Presented as Pip’s confessional autobiography\, Great Expectations describes his childhood at the forge\, his infatuation with the beautiful Estella\, his shame at his working-class origin and his eagerness to be a gentleman\, and eventually his life as a young man-about-town with “great expectations” of inheriting a fortune. Recalling these events as an adult\, Mr. Pirrip is frank about his mistakes and shortcomings. \nRecommended Edition: We recommend the Penguin Classics edition of the novel for its appendices and notes\, but other versions are fine. First-time readers should avoid the Introduction if they don’t want spoilers. Download the novel to read at Gutenburg.org or to listen at LibriVox.org. \nIf you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out at dpj@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/santa-cruz-pickwick-club-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Ariel Chan - "Bilingualism in Context: The Role of Language Experience and Cultural Identity in Language Processing"
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“Bilingualism in Context: The Role of Language Experience and Cultural Identity in Language Processing”\nwith Ariel Chan\, Ph.D.\nStanford University \n\nAbstract \nBilingualism is inherently a social phenomenon with variation. Sociolinguistic research (e.g.\, Chen\, 2008; Lo\, 1999; Milroy & Wei\, 1995) has demonstrated that bilinguals employ code-switching for identity construction. Meanwhile\, recent psycholinguistic research (e.g.\, Beatty-Martinez et al.\, 2020; Kaan et al.\, 2020; Treffers-Daller et al.\, 2020) has emerged to consider individual differences within interactional contexts and social networks. \nHow do sociocultural factors\, such as language experience and cultural identity\, impact bilinguals’ cognitive and language processing?  \nWhat insights about language processing can we gain from cross-disciplinary psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic research? \nIn this talk\, Ariel Chan will explore these two questions by examining code-switching among three groups of Cantonese-English bilinguals with diverse language experience and cultural identity from an integrated psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspective. To begin\, she will present behavioral data from three experiments\, examining how language experience and cultural identity modulate code-switching comprehension and production within a controlled laboratory context. In the second part of the talk\, Chan will focus on naturalistic code-switching data in conversations. Using data from a map task\, she will demonstrate how variation in language experience and cultural identity is reflected in the bilinguals’ code-switching patterns. The synthesis of experimental and qualitative data highlights the significant roles of both language experience and cultural identity in shaping cognitive and linguistic processes\, underscoring the importance of incorporating sociocultural contexts into bilingualism research. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ariel-chan-bilingualism-in-context/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Ross Gay & Chris Mattingly
DESCRIPTION:FREE IN-STORE EVENT: Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome bestselling author Ross Gay (The Book of Delights\, Inciting Joy) and local poet Chris Mattingly for an evening of poetry\, plus a Q&A and a book signing. \nRoss Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding\, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude\, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His first collection of essays\, The Book of Delights\, was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller. His new collection of essays\, Inciting Joy\, was released by Algonquin in October of 2022. \n  \nChris Mattingly is a poet in Santa Cruz. He is the author of two full-length collections of poetry\, Scuffletown (Typecast\, 2013) and The Catalyst (Pickpocket\, 2018) as well as over two dozen limited-run chapbooks and artist’ books. His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in The Greensboro Review\, Louisville Review\, Trigger\, Lumberyard\, Still\, Some Call it Ballin’\, and Forklift\, OHIO. Chris is co-founding editor of alla testa\, a kitchen press devoted to producing far out field recordings\, hand-made artist’ books\, and letter press chapbooks. Some of his work is on display at thepoetchrismattingly.com.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-reading-with-ross-gay-chris-mattingly-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T110000
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SUMMARY:THI Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute is excited to welcome students\, faculty\, staff\, and friends for a weekly Coffee Hour on Wednesdays\, 11am to noon. \nWe invite you to visit our team\, meet our new Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, and talk with us about your academic interests as well as upcoming THI events and programs. Learn about how THI supports Faculty\, Graduate Students\, and Undergraduate Students\, including fellowship and grant opportunities\, and hear more about our ongoing research initiatives and partnerships. Enjoy a free cup of coffee\, pick up a THI sticker\, and be a part of our humanities community. \nCome say hi to us at the THI Suite\, on the 5th floor of the Humanities 1 building. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-coffee-hour-5/2024-01-31/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240131T120000
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SUMMARY:Donna Haraway – Making Kin: Lynn Margulis in Sympoiesis with Sibling Scientists
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations \nSympoiesis is a simple word; it means “making with.” We live in a profoundly sympoietic world. This talk begins with Lynn Margulis (1938-2011)\, a multi-faceted biologist who co-founded the view of Earth as Gaia\, a planet with wildly improbable gas ratios and with sustained\, unlikely equilibria that only living beings could account for. Margulis thought that if bacteria had not already accomplished something\, it was hardly worth doing. Indebted to Margulis\, I explore the work of three contemporary biologists who together demonstrate the crucial game-changing ideas and research practices essential to partial healing on a damaged planet. The talk concludes by moving more deeply to naturecultures in the sympoiesis of the living and the dead and the vital practices of strong mourning. \nDonna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. She earned her PhD in Biology at Yale in 1972 and writes and teaches in science and technology studies\, feminist theory\, and multispecies studies. She has served as thesis adviser for over 60 doctoral students in several disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas. At UCSC\, she is an active participant in the Science and Justice Research Center and Center for Cultural Studies. \nAttending to the intersection of biology with culture and politics\, Haraway’s work explores the string figures composed by science fact\, science fiction\, speculative feminism\, speculative fabulation\, science and technology studies\, and multispecies worlding. Her books include Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016); Manifestly Haraway (2016); When Species Meet (2008); The Companion Species Manifesto (2003); The Haraway Reader (2004); Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium (1997\, 2nd ed 2018); Simians\, Cyborgs\, and Women (1991); Primate Visions (1989); and Crystals\, Fabrics\, and Fields (1976\, 2004). Her books and articles are translated into many languages. Fabrizio Terravova made a feature-length film\, titled Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival\, ( 2016)\, and Diana Toucedo made Camille & Ulysse with Haraway and Vinciane Despret. With Adele Clarke she co-edited Making Kin Not Population (Prickly Paradigm Press\, 2018)\, which addresses questions of human numbers\, feminist anti-racist reproductive and environmental justice\, and multispecies flourishing.  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/january-31-donna-haraway-making-kin-lynn-margulis-in-sympoiesis-with-sibling-scientists/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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