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SUMMARY:Zhongmin Chen — "Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language"
DESCRIPTION:The Fusional Linguistics Initiative presents\, Zhongmin Chen (Fudan University) speaking on “Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language: the ‘One-center Multi-Layer’ Development Hypothesis.” This talk will take place Monday\, February 3 at 1:20pm in Humanities 1 – Room 210. \nLanguage is humanity’s most vital tool for communication\, making the study of its evolution inherently linked to the dynamics of human activity\, society\, history\, and other influencing factors. Based on the historical and cultural contexts of language development\, the evolution of language can be broadly categorized into three models: \n1. The Family Tree Model – exemplified by Indo-European languages.\n2. The Polycentric Mixed Model – observed in regions such as Australia\, Papua New Guinea\, and the Balkans.\n3. The One-Center Multi-Layer Model – characteristic of East and Southeast Asian languages\, including Chinese. \nThis presentation delves into the historical and social contexts underlying these evolutionary models and highlights their defining characteristics. It also demonstrates the methodology used to analyze historical linguistic layers\, with examples drawn from the lexical\, syntactic\, and phonetic features of various Chinese dialects and East Asian languages. \nZhongmin Chen (陈忠敏) is Professor of Chinese Linguistics at Fudan University (Shanghai). He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of California\, Berkeley. He works on experimental phonetics\, historical linguistics\, and Chinese dialectology.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zhongmin-chen-re-evaluating-the-development-of-the-chinese-language/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life – Film Screening and Discussion with Co-Director/Executive Producer\, Dr. Persis Karim
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the film\, The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life\, and a discussion with the film’s Co-Director and Executive Producer\, Persis Karim\, who will be in conversation with UCSC PhD candidate\, Shirin Towfiq. The film shares a multi-generational perspective of those who came to the U.S. as students\, refugees\, and exiles in the context of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The film charts the longer history of Iranian Americans in the San Francisco Bay area and the ways they have been impacted by and contributed to the region. The event is presented by the Center for Middle East and North Africa and the Department of Film and Digital Media. \nPersis Karim is the director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University where she also teaches in the Department of Humanities and Comparative and World Literature. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diasporic literature\, and she has published numerous articles about Iranian diasporic literature and culture for academic journals as well as poetry and essays in non-academic publications. The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life is her first film and reflects her interest in documenting and sharing the larger history and personal stories of those who are part of the global Iranian diaspora. She co-directed and co-produced the film with Soumyaa Behrens. Karim received her Master’s degree in Middle East Studies and her PhD in Comparative Literature from UT Austin. She is also a poet.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-dawn-is-too-far/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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SUMMARY:Paul North & Paul Reitter – Notes on Translating Marx’s Capital
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will discuss the history of Anglophone translations of Capital (Vol. 1) Karl Marx’s magnus opus\, paying particular attention to the different circumstances that have shaped important translation decisions. It will also identify some of the major translation challenges the text poses and ask how the meaning of the Capital varies according to how we respond to those challenges. \nThis event will be held in Humanities 1 Room 210\, as well as via Zoom. Register here for the Zoom link. \nPaul Reitter teaches in the German department at Ohio State University. He is the author\, most recently\, of Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age (cowritten with Chad Wellmon). His articles and essays have appeared in venues ranging from Representations to The New York Review of Books. \n  \nPaul North is Maurice Natanson Professor of German at Yale University. He teaches and writes critical theory. His books include The Problem of Distraction (Stanford University Press\, 2011)\, The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation (Stanford University Press\, 2015)\, Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness (Princeton University Press\, 2021)\, and a new translation and critical reading edition of Marx’s Capital\, Volume 1 (Princeton University Press\, 2024). \nThis talk is hosted in collaboration with History of Consciousness and is co-sponsored by the UC’s Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group (IMWG)\, the Marxist Institute for Research (MIR)\, UC Berkeley’s Department of German Languages and Literatures\, UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities\, UC Berkeley’s Department of English and Program in Critical Theory. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-reitter-notes-on-translating-marxs-capital/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Humanities at Work: Informational Interviewing
DESCRIPTION:Wondering about your career options? Your curiosity is one of your greatest assets for discovering career possibilities\, for building your network\, and for creating a fulfilling professional life. Join this interactive workshop to learn about exploring your career options and growing your network with the practice of informational interviewing. \n \nFree copies of Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans for all those who register by Friday 1/31 and attend the event. \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-at-work-informational-interviewing/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Radhika Govindrajan — “It’s Not Love\, It’s Deception”: The Affective Politics of Law and Majoritarianism in Himalayan India
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2025 Anthropology Colloquium Series\, “It’s Not Love\, It’s Deception”: The Affective Politics of Law and Majoritarianism in Himalayan India with Radhika Govindrajan. \nThis talk draws on ethnographic research in Himalayan India to explore how majoritarian feeling creeps into the legal domain by exploring the contingent production of sentiment among state officials who legislate inter-religious relationships. \nRadhika Govindrajan is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Washington\, Seattle. She is the author of Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018. She is currently working on a book manuscript that explores how the question of the village in contemporary India is tangled up with the political economy of sex and sexuality. \nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radhika-govindrajan-its-not-love-its-deception/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\,  Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dixita Deka--After Insurgency: Farming Journeys and Rehabilitation in Northeast India
DESCRIPTION:Since India’s independence in 1947\, militarization\, the extractive regime\, and capital have significantly transformed the agrarian landscape in Northeast India. This talk is based on ongoing ethnographic work in Assam among the former insurgents of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) who have taken up farming. Reclaiming the fields and the commons has been a mammoth task for communities and surrendered insurgents alike. In the absence of a state rehabilitation program\, grassroots farming initiatives started by former ULFA insurgents in rural Assam allow them to reconnect with the community\, earn a livelihood\, and work with dignity. In doing so\, insurgents and communities are paving the path for a sustainable ecosystem in the aftermath of insurgency. \nDixita Deka is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Agrarian Studies at MacMillan Center\, Yale University\, New Haven\, CT. Her research interests include insurgency in Northeast India\, gender studies\, and food cultures in the Eastern Himalayas. \n\nThis talk will be in person and online.  To attend on Zoom\, register here.  Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS)\, this event is part of the Ecologies of Care Lecture Series. Learn more about the series here: https://csas.ucsc.edu/2024-25-events/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dixita-deka-after-insurgency-farming-journeys-and-rehabilitation-in-northeast-india/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Neko Case | THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU
DESCRIPTION:Beloved Grammy-nominated musician Neko Case will share her new book\, THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU — a “heartbreaking and funny” memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood\, obsessive desires\, and indispensable friendships that reflects on the way art and music and a deep connection to nature guided her journey towards stardom (Maggie Smith\, NYT bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful). \n \nSinger\, songwriter\, music producer\, visual artist\, and writer Neko Case has built a career with her distinctive style and musical versatility. In addition to her numerous critically-acclaimed and Grammy-nominated solo records\, Case is a founding member of The New Pornographers and has recorded a collaborative album with k.d. lang and Laura Veirs. She currently authors the popular bi-weekly Substack newsletter “Entering the Lung” and is writing the music for a high-profile Broadway production. \nNeko Case has long been revered as one of music’s most influential artists\, whose authenticity\, lyrical storytelling\, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics\, musicians\, and lifelong fans. In THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU\, Case brings her trademark candor and precision to a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisible girl “raised by two dogs and a space heater” in rural Washington state to her improbable emergence as an internationally-acclaimed talent. \nIn luminous\, sharp-edged prose\, Case shows readers what it’s like to be left alone for hours and hours as a child\, to take refuge in the woods around her home\, and to channel the monotony and loneliness and joy that comes from music\, camaraderie\, and shared experience into art. \nTHE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU is a rebellious meditation on identity and corruption\, and a manifesto on how to make space for ourselves in this world\, despite the obstacles we face. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Neko Case \nCo-sponsored by Streetlight Records and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neko-case/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova – Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we continue the Winter 25 session of the HistCon Speaker Series next week! Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova\, University of Bergamo (the class[y] economists) will give their talk “Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration” on Monday\, February 10\, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 420. \nIf you are unable to make it in person\, you can register to attend virtually via the Zoom at this link. \nAbout Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration:\nIn the last decades there has been a large debate of what may be referred to as the “gender question” and the “nature question”. Large parts of feminism and ecologism have been critical of the Marxian approach\, while Marxists have never really engaged in a debate\, either seen the encounter as unproblematical or dismissing it altogether. Discussing also aspects of the Italian debate\, we argue that feminism and ecologism need finally to meet Marx\, at least the Marx where the centrality of the working condition in capitalism is at the same time a criticism of the overwhelming centrality of production. Common misconceptions of what is the meaning of the “primacy of labour” point of view\, as well as about domestic labour and social reproduction\, need to be clarified and dispelled. \nRiccardo Bellofiore\, formerly Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy)\, is interested in the Marxian theory of value and crisis\, the development and crisis of capitalism\, the endogenous theories of money\, the history of economic thought and economic philosophy. He has published ‘The Adventures of Vergesellschaftung’ (in Consecutio Rerum\, 2018) and\, with Giovanna Vertova\, The Great Recession and the Contradiction of Contemporary Capitalism (Edward Elgar\, 2014). He has recently co-edited\, in English with Tommaso Redolfi Riva\, Marx: Key Concepts ((Edward Elgar\, 2024) and\, with Stefano Breda\, the Italian translation of Michael Heinrich’s Die Wissenschaft vom Wert [Science of Value] (Pgreco\, 2024). With Giovanna Vertova he runs the facebook page Economisti di Classe. \nGiovanna Vertova\, Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy)\, is interested in the spatial dimension of economics\, with a focus on the globalization debate; the economics of innovation\, especially in reference to national innovation systems; gender and feminist economics\, especially in relation to the labor market. With Riccardo Bellofiore she has published The Great Recession and the Contradiction of Contemporary Capitalism (Edward Elgar\, 2014). She has recently published chapters for Spinger’s and Elgar’s collective volumes and articles in scientific journals\, on the themes of the permanent catastrophe of capitalism\, gender mainstreaming\, and the so-called Great Resignation. With Riccardo Bellofiore she runs the facebook page Economisti di Classe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nature-women-and-capital-a-critical-reconsideration/
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:Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Primary Wonder: Spirituality\, Art\, and Nature" with Douglas E. Christie
DESCRIPTION: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. \n“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 at all/let alone cosmos\, joy\, memory\, everything\,/rather than void.” It is an idea resonant with spiritual meaning\, but sometimes more accessible to us through art\, poetry and nature than through traditional religious practice. This lecture will consider the role art and poetry can play in helping us recover a spirituality of primary wonder–beyond traditional religious practice–especially in relation to the natural world. \nProfessor Christie is the author of The Word in The Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early Christian Monasticism (Oxford\, 1993)\, The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Note for a Contemplative Ecology (Oxford\, 2013)\, and The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Mysticism\, Loss and the Common Life (Oxford\, 2022). He has been awarded fellowships from the Luce Foundation\, the Lilly Foundation\, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. From 2013-2015 he served as Co-director of the Casa de la Mateada study abroad program in Córdoba\, Argentina\, a program rooted in the Jesuit vision of education for solidarity. He lives with his family in Los Angeles. He is currently working on a book on the desert as spiritual landscape. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the Council of Provosts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phi-beta-kappa-visiting-scholar-lecture-with-douglas-e-christie/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Armen Khatchatourov - Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems
DESCRIPTION: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.” \nIf you are unable to make it in person\, you can attend virtually via Zoom. \nThe rapid proliferation of AI-based systems has transformed how we understand and relate to normativity. Drawing on Foucault’s insights\, Armen Khatchatourov will explore how social norms are translated into dynamic\, adaptable AI systems and how these technologies redefine our relationship with normativity through their opacity and adjustability. This talk will present a heuristic approach to unpacking the ways normative concepts operate within AI technologies and their implications for society and governance. \nArmen Khatchatourov is an Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the DICEN-IdF Lab\, University Gustave Eiffel\, Paris\, France. With a dual background in engineering and the philosophy of technology\, Armen has held research positions at leading institutions such as Institut Mines-Télécom and Sony Computer Science Lab Paris. His work spans digital identities\, privacy\, smart cities\, and the societal impacts of Big Data and AI. He is the author of Digital Identities in Tension: Between Autonomy and Control (ISTE/Wiley\, 2019) and Corps Connectés. Figures\, Fragments\, Discours (Presses des Mines\, 2022)\, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Études Digitales. \n\nThe Humanities Institute Research cluster\, “Humanities in the Age of AI\,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes 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. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/armen-khatchatourov-truths-and-rewards-of-algorithmic-governmentality/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deep Read Salon: Revisiting Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
DESCRIPTION: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 target. She’ll help lay the groundwork for understanding this year’s Deep Read book\, Percival Everett’s James\, a rewriting of Huckleberry Finn that engages with both Twain’s novel and legacy. After delivering a brief lecture\, Prof. Gillman will be in conversation with Vilashini Cooppan (UCSC Professor of Literature\, Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead) and Laura Martin (UCSC Lecturer\, Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead). \n \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-talk-on-mark-twains-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:La Marr Jurelle Bruce – COME OUTSIDE: Black Love\, Open Sky
DESCRIPTION: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 and exceed normative enclosures of Western modernity. In a public sphere overrun with spectacles of black death outside\, I plan to compile a counter-archive and counter-narrative of B/black love that can breathe under open sky\, in the open air. \nLa Marr Jurelle Bruce is a philosopher\, fever dreamer\, interdisciplinary humanities scholar\, first-generation college graduate\, and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland\, College Park. Much of his scholarship explores and activates B/black\, queer\, and mad expressive cultures—spanning literature\, music\, film\, theatre\, and the art and aesthetics of quotidian life. Dr. Bruce’s writing is featured or forthcoming in African American Review\, American Quarterly\, The Black Scholar\, GLQ\, Social Text\, TDR\, and several anthologies. His debut book\, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (2021)\, earned the Modern Language Association’s First Book Prize. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/la-marr-jurelle-bruce-come-outside/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Career Workshop: Using LinkedIn to Accelerate Your Career
DESCRIPTION: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! \n \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/career-workshop-using-linkedin-to-accelerate-your-career/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 1
DESCRIPTION: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 production’s visiting scholar. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \n \nGretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works\, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana\, and she works frequently as a dramaturg\, script adaptor\, and director.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-timon-of-athens-episode-1/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Derek Penslar - Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State?
DESCRIPTION: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.  \n\nThe Center for Jewish Studies Presents The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies featuring Derek Penslar. Derek Penslar will be presenting his talk titled Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State? \n \nSince the 1960s\, referencing Israel as settler-colonial has been a common polemical practice\, a means of delegitimization of the state of Israel and those who believe in its right to exist. But over this same period\, scholars have done serious work on the relationship between Zionism\, Israel\, and settler-colonialism. This talk will separate the analytical from the polemic threads in the discourse on Israel and settler-colonialism. It will propose a new vocabulary\, both more flexible and precise\, to describe Israel and that can be more conducive to a just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. \nDerek Penslar Harvard University\nDerek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. He has published a dozen books\, most recently Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (2020; German ed. 2022); and Zionism: An Emotional State (2023). He is currently writing a book titled The War for Palestine\, 1947-1949: A Global History. He is a past president of the American Academy for Jewish Research\, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, and an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College\, Oxford. \n  \n\nEvery year\, the Jewish Studies Department honors Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. See a full list of previous Diller lectures here. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-helen-diller-distinguished-lecture-in-jewish-studies-featuring-derek-penslar/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Thomas Haigh--Artificial Intelligence: The Brand That Wouldn't Die
DESCRIPTION: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 by Merrill College/Ming Ong Tech Cluster and co-sponsored by Humanizing Technology and the Humanities Division. \nThomas Haigh is lead author of A New History of Modern Computing (MIT Press\, 2022) and ENIAC In Action: Making & Remaking the Modern Computer (MIT Press\, 2016) and a regular contributor to Communications of the ACM. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thomas-haigh-artificial-intelligence-the-brand-that-wouldnt-die/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250218T120000
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SUMMARY:Katie Shilton - Trust\, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI
DESCRIPTION: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.” \nAs the discourse on responsible and trustworthy AI intensifies\, Participatory AI (PAI) presents a compelling approach to the democratic development of automated technologies. But how should we think about how and whether participatory methods increase trust in\, and the trustworthiness of\, AI systems? This talk will report on a systematic examination of the landscape of methods and theoretical lenses used in global participatory AI projects\, and connect those methods and lenses to trust building. The talk will explore differences in theoretical frameworks\, participation methods\, and the details of shared tasks within the AI lifecycle across sectors and geographies. Our findings reveal an evolving definition of PAI\, with actors implementing diverse methods and shared tasks. Focusing on shared tasks also provides a lens for analyzing how participation can build trust in\, and trustworthiness of\, AI systems. Our analysis reveals that participation alone is not necessarily a straightforward approach to building public trust in AI technologies\, but that the promise of participation lies in trustworthiness by increasing the diversity of expertise engaged in alignment and decision-making within AI technologies. \nKatie Shilton is a professor in the College of Information at the University of Maryland\, College Park\, and is currently visiting faculty in Computational Media at UCSC. Her research focuses on technology and data ethics. She is a co-PI of the NSF Institute for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Law & Society (TRAILS) and a co-PI of the UMD Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence (VCAI) initiative. She was also recently the PI of the PERVADE project\, a multi-campus collaboration focused on big data research ethics. Other projects include improving online content moderation with human-in-the-loop machine learning techniques and designing experiential data ethics education. Katie received a B.A. from Oberlin College\, a Master of Library and Information Science from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Information Studies from UCLA. \n\nThe Humanities Institute Research cluster\, “Humanities in the Age of AI\,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes 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. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/katie-shilton-trust-trustworthiness-and-participation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Bay Area Journalist Joe Eskenazi
DESCRIPTION: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. \nJoe Eskenazi is the managing editor of Mission Local\, and has written for the Guardian\, San Francisco Public Press\, San Francisco Chronicle\, San Francisco Examiner\, and SF Weekly\, where he was a regular columnist from 2007 to 2015. He has also served as a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-conversation-with-joe-eskenazi/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T093000
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SUMMARY:Valentin Lopez – Amah Mutsun Tribal History & Importance of Traditional Land Stewardship
DESCRIPTION: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.” \nValentin 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 indigenous descendants forcibly taken to Missions San Juan Bautista and Santa Cruz. Chairman Lopez is also the President of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust which was established in 2012. He is a Native American Advisor to the University of California\, Office of the President. He is also a Native American Adviser to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). The Amah Mutsun are currently working to restore their traditional indigenous knowledge regarding land stewardship and ensuring that truthful history is taught. Consequently\, the Amah Mutsun are very active in conservation and protection efforts within their traditional tribal territory. Chairman Lopez is working to restore the Mutsun Language and is a traditional Mutsun singer and dancer. \nThis event is presented by the THI More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/valentin-lopez-amah-mutsun-tribal-history/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ajay Skaria – The Part of the Indigenous: Adivasis and the Subaltern Intimation of Freedom
DESCRIPTION: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 Studies project is driven by a subaltern intimation of freedom—a freedom that recognizes that domination takes the form of not only exploitation but oppression\, and a freedom that\, even as it exits subalternity\, seeks not to make a new group subaltern in either way. Revisiting my 1999 book\, Hybrid Histories\, I explore this subaltern intimation of freedom by focusing on 1) how it played a role in the turn away from a focus on subaltern autonomy; 2) how the community constituted by it differs from those constituted by claims to oppression such as those made by Hindu nationalists or white nationalists; and 3) how it allows us to read differently the claim to indigeneity involved in the identity “Adivasi.” \nAjay Skaria studied Political Science and History at Maharaja Sayajirao University\, Vadodara\, during which he also worked as a journalist for Indian Express. He teaches at the University of Minnesota. A member of the Subaltern Studies editorial collective from 1995 till its dissolution\, he is one of the co-editors of Subaltern Studies Vol. XII\, and the author of Hybrid Histories: Forests\, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India (1999) and Unconditional Equality: Gandhi’s Religion of Resistance (2016). He is currently completing a collection of essays\, Thinking With Gandhi and Ambedkar\, and is also working on another book\, Ambedkar’s Buddhism. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ajay-skaria-the-part-of-the-indigenous-adivasis-and-the-subaltern-intimation-of-freedom/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 2
DESCRIPTION: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 production’s visiting scholar. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \nGretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works\, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana\, and she works frequently as a dramaturg\, script adaptor\, and director.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-timon-of-athens-episode-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture: G. S. Sahota
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome G.S. Sahota—Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz for a conversation on Equality of the Minor: Ambedkar’s Critical Legacy Today. This engaging discussion will take place on February 20\, 2025 at 3:30 PM in Humanities 1\, Room 202. You can also join us virtually via Zoom: \n \nThis event is a part of the Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fall-2024-aurora-lecture-g-s-sahota/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Mediterranean Slavery Since the 18th Century and the Historical Study of Race: M’hamed Oualdi in Conversation with Shreya Parikh
DESCRIPTION: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 with other dominated groups. Presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa\, this talk investigates whether theories of race and racism can elucidate the social\, political\, and economic dimensions of slavery in the Mediterranean\, while also asking how studying slavery in the Mediterranean might provide a different understanding of racialization during the early modern period. \n \nM’hamed Oualdi is a Professor at the European University Institute\, Florence. Before joining the EUI\, he taught at Sciences Po-Paris and Princeton University. He is supervising a European Research Council-funded project about the demise of slavery in the Mediterranean from the mid-18th century to the 1930s. He is the author of Esclaves et maîtres. Les mamelouks au service des beys de Tunis du XVIIe siècle aux années 1880 (Publications de la Sorbonne\, 2011) and A Slave between Empires (Columbia University Press\, 2020). \nShreya Parikh is a lecturer and affiliated researcher at Sciences Po Paris. She received a Dual Ph.D. in Political Science and in Sociology from Sciences Po and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024. Her dissertation\, Mirages of Race: Blackness\, Racialization\, and the Black Movement in Tunisia\, examines the intersections of race\, migration\, and citizenship in the production of Blackness in contemporary Tunisia. She is currently working on adapting her dissertation manuscript into a book.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mhamed-oualdi-in-conversation-with-shreya-parikh/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities  \nLearn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal\, the proper tone and form\, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. This workshop will be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support. \nThe workshop will be led by Pranav Anand (Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Linguistics) Alma Heckman (Steering Committee Member at The Humanities Institute and Associate Professor of History & Jewish Studies)\, and Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Director at The Humanities Institute). \n  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T121500
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Nora Khan – Discernment: Unruly Images\, Synthetic Media\, and Evolving Critical Impulse
DESCRIPTION:What can criticism offer us in a world of unruly generative images and synthetic media? What precise language might we use for machine learning’s impact\, or the wake of an algorithm? How must our practices of discernment and the critical impulse evolve in response to computational developments\, to perhaps be more resilient and responsive? \nThis talk invites one to consider how our language might move with ‘intelligent’ systems and beings that simulate liveness and likeness. To navigate a present and future dominated by synthetic media\, and created by predictive systems\, we take up a practice of seeing through systems. This talk first explores the craft of developing a hybrid\, strategic\, collective and dissident criticism of technology. It second reviews cases of baffling\, seemingly inarticulable experiences from early software experiments and artists’ interventions\, into AI/ML. Third\, it explores the evolution of language in response to material and symbolic systems that dramatically shape our creative approaches and cognition. Throughout\, the talk explores evolving critical methods that help us better situate ourselves to identify a vast range of hidden fictions and beliefs about what technology is meant to do and be. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nora-khan-discernment/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T160000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Humanities Campus to Career:  Law Panel
DESCRIPTION:Please stay tuned for a new date! \n\nAre you interested in a career in the legal field? Come learn about careers in law from current and former attorneys with Humanities backgrounds. \nAppetizers and light refreshments will be served. \n \nSarah Cunniff (she/her) attended Stevenson College at UC Santa Cruz\, where she majored in French Literature. After law school\, she worked in large and small law firms and in-house at Levi Strauss. Most recently she spent a dozen years at the Career Development Office at Berkeley Law school\, where she supported students in their job searches\, with a special affinity for students with humanities backgrounds. \nChris Khasho (he/him) graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2013 with a B.A. in Philosophy and is now a successful young attorney in Los Angeles. Chris represents clients in a broad array of business litigation matters and counsels them in corporate and transactional matters at Cypress LLP\, a premier business litigation firm in Century City. Chris is passionate about giving back to his community and helping clients resolve their legal issues. \nRitu Goswamy (they/them) is a Staff Attorney with the UC Immigrant Legal Services Center and serves UC Santa Cruz. They are a graduate from Barnard College\, Columbia University and Boston College (Joint J.D./M.S.W. degrees). Prior to joining the Center\, Ritu worked as a child welfare worker in Oakland\, and as an attorney with the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center (now Legal Aid at Work) and Legal Advocates for Children & Youth (part of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley). \nJalyn Mitchell (she/her) is a proud UCSC College Ten Alum and majored in English Language Literature with a minor in Legal Studies. She graduated from Law School from Loyola University in Chicago and went to work in San Jose at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley where she represented people on long term psychiatric holds with their due process right to a hearing to leave the hospital. Currently and for the last 2.5 years\, she has represented young people on a variety of issues including restraining orders\, traffic tickets\, education law\, and guardianships. \nLearn more about the panelists here. \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-campus-to-career-law-panel/
LOCATION:Merrill Provost House\, Provost's Residence\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 3
DESCRIPTION: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 production’s visiting scholar. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \nGretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works\, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana\, and she works frequently as a dramaturg\, script adaptor\, and director.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-timon-of-athens-episode-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Jennifer Finney Boylan | CLEAVAGE: MEN\, WOMEN\, AND THE SPACE BETWEEN US
DESCRIPTION:What is the difference between men and women? In her new book Cleavage: Men\, Women\, and the Space Between Us\, Jennifer Finney Boylan\, bestselling author of She’s Not There and co-author of Mad Honey with Jodi Picoult\, examines the divisions—as well as the common ground—between the genders\, and reflects on her own experiences\, both difficult and joyful\, as a transgender American. \n \nJennifer Finney Boylan is the author of nineteen books\, including Mad Honey\, coauthored with Jodi Picoult. Her memoir\, She’s Not There\, was the first bestselling work by a transgender American. Since 2014\, she has been the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University; she is also on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference of Middlebury College and the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano\, Italy. She is the President of PEN America\, and from 2011 to 2018 she was a member of the Board of Directors of GLAAD\, including four years as national cochair. In 2022-23 she was a Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She graduated from Wesleyan University and Johns Hopkins\, and she holds doctorates honoris causafrom Sarah Lawrence College\, the New School\, and Wesleyan University. For many years she was a contributing opinion writer for the opinion section of the New York Times. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker\, the Washington Post\, the Boston Globe\, Literary Hub\, Down East\, and many other publications. She lives in Maine and New York with her wife\, Deirdre. They have two children: a daughter\, Zai\, and a son\, Sean. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Jennifer Finney Boylan \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-jennifer-finney-boylan-cleavage-men-women-and-the-space-between-us/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Hannah Sanghee Park
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 \nGrief Sequence\nNot to suppress mourning (suffering)…but to change it\, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes \nHannah Sanghee Park is the author of two poetry collections. a chapbook\, Ode Days Ode (2011) and The Same-Different (2015)\, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. In 2013\, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Her hometown is Federal Way\, Washington\, and she currently resides in Los Angeles\, California. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-hannah-sanghee-park/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T190000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Colin Winnette
DESCRIPTION:As part of Kresge’s Writers House Reading Series\, Kresge’s Media and Society presents an evening with novelist and short-story writer Colin Winnette\, who will be giving a reading followed by Q&A. \nThe event will start at 7pm in the Kresge A Lounge (the first-floor lounge in one of the new residence halls). \nColin Winnette is the author of several books\, including Coyote\, Haints Stay\, The Job of the Wasp\, and most recently Users\, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Winnette’s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s\, The Believer\, and The Paris Review Daily\, among many others. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-colin-winnette/
LOCATION:Kresge Collge – A Lounge
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SUMMARY:Evgeny Morozov - AI and its Others: Cold War Legacies\, Neoliberal Futures\, and the Fight for Ecological Reason
DESCRIPTION:Evgeny Morozov will be on campus Friday afternoon\, February 28 to talk about his recent Boston Review article “The AI We Deserve.” \nEvgeny Morozov holds a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University. He is the founder of “The Syllabus” and author of The Net Delusion (2011) and To Save Everything\, Click Here (2013).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/evgeny-morozov-ai-and-its-others/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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