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SUMMARY:Anne Norton; "Theses on Democracy or\, The People\, Steering"
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAnne Norton is professor and department chair of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Norton is the author of seven books\, including On the Muslim Question and 95 Theses on Politics\, Culture and Method. She is Co-Founding Editor of the journal Theory and Event and on the executive board of the journal Political Theory. Her present work concerns problems of property and democracy. \nTheses on Democracy or\, The People\, Steering \n1. The practice of democracy is being toward death.\n2. Democracy requires courage.\n3. Democrats take risks.\n4. Bandits\, pirates\, outlaws and rogues are close to democracy.\n5. Authoritarianism is the enemy of democracy\, anarchy is its shadow.\n6. Anarchy is not only to be feared\, it is also a place that offers shade\, a place to rest\, a place to hide.\n(…)\n38. Democracies depend on truth.\n39. Truth prospers in democracies. Truth depends on the democratic.\n40. We are not democrats yet.\n41. Democracy is not an idyllic state\, democracy is a struggle.\n42. Each democracy is distinct.\n(…) \nThis is an event part of the After Neoliberalism research cluster \nNext event: Monday\, April 15th Bernard Harcourt
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anne-norton-theses-democracy-people-steering/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Prof and a Pint: "Polarization and Public Discourse: How We Got Here and What We Do Now"
DESCRIPTION:Political discourse in the United States is devolving. From social media to Washington D.C. closed-mindedness\, confirmation bias\, and agenda-driven reasoning are undermining the possibility for constructive dialogue. Where do these destructive tendencies come from? Are they the result of a person’s upbringing\, or intelligence\, or education? A matter of their character? Our research is beginning to provide answers to these questions\, and these answers have profound\, sometimes surprising\, implications for the future of our country. \nPlease join us for a presentation and conversation to learn how the Center for Public Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz is fostering more thoughtful and engaged communities of thinkers\, doers\, and change-makers by using philosophy and cognitive science to teach us all—especially the next generations—how to think and talk to one another differently. \nThe Center for Public Philosophy is a research center within The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Please RSVP \n \n  \nJon Ellis is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz and founding director of the Center for Public Philosophy. His current research is on motivated reasoning (cognitive dissonance\, rationalization\, self-deception\, etc.) and\, in particular\, on the role it plays in especially intelligent\, reflective\, and sincere thinkers. He teaches a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate level courses at UC Santa Cruz\, and has published on a broad range of topics including perception\, language\, color\, skepticism\, interpretation\, and rationalization. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from UC Berkeley in 2002. \nJuan Ruiz earned degrees in Philosophy and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz in 2017\, and is currently a master’s degree student in the Philosophy Department. He has been an active High School Ethics Bowl coach for under-served schools in Watsonville\, San Jose\, and Santa Cruz\, CA. Ruiz co-authored the AB540 Student Emergency Fund\, an addendum to CA AB540 Non-Resident Tuition Fee Waiver\, which allocates $300\,000 of unrestricted emergency funds for undocumented students on the UC Santa Cruz campus; and co-founded UCSC’s Minorities and Philosophy chapter. Ruiz received the Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity as a result of furthering diversity\, inclusion\, and excellence at UC Santa Cruz. \nClick here for more information about the UCSC “Prof and  Pint” Lecture Series \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/prof-pint-center-public-philosophy/
LOCATION:Forager\, San Jose\, 420 S 1st St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95172\, United States
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SUMMARY:Safiya Noble\, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event was rescheduled from February 12 \nThe landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet\, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial\, disembodied\, or lacking positionality. Technologies consist of a set of social practices\, situated within the dynamics of race\, gender\, class\, and politics\, and in the service of something – a position\, a profit motive\, a means to an end. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will discuss her new book\, Algorithms of Oppression\, and the impact of marginalization and misrepresentation in commercial information platforms like Google search\, as well as the implications for public information needs. \n  \nThis talk is co-sponsored by Kresge College’s Media and Society Lecture Series\, The Science & Justice Research Center\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Department of Sociology. \n— \nDr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies\, and a visiting faculty member to the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication. Previously\, she was an Assistant Professor in Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2019\, she will join the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow. \nShe is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines\, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press). \nSafiya is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award. Her academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary\, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race\, gender\, culture\, and technology. She is regularly quoted for her expertise by national and international press on issues of algorithmic discrimination and technology bias\, including The Guardian\, the BBC\, CNN International\, USA Today\, Wired\, Time\, and The New York Times\, to name a few. \nDr. Noble is the co-editor of two edited volumes: The Intersectional Internet: Race\, Sex\, Culture and Class Online and Emotions\, Technology & Design. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies\, and is the co-editor of the Commentary & Criticism section of the Journal of Feminist Media Studies. She is a member of several academic journal and advisory boards\, including Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University\, Fresno where she was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2018.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/safiya-noble-algorithms-oppression-search-engines-reinforce-racism/
LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall
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SUMMARY:Dai Jinhua: “On Twenty-first Century Postcolonialism”
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nDai Jinhua’s lecture will address the place of post-colonial theory in the twenty-first century. This question is highly relevant to China\, as it recalls the history of China’s involvement in the non-aligned movement\, and subsequent efforts after the break with the Soviet Union to form third-world solidarities. But Dai calls into question whether the insights of postcolonialism are relevant for the transformations that have taken place in China in the last thirty years\, as part of what she calls our current era of “the post-post-Cold War.” Historically the postcolonial binary of colonization/de-colonization blurred the coordinates of the Cold War\, including most importantly China’s position as a “third” option within the non-aligned third world. Since the end of the Cold War\, what can post-colonial theory tell us about the current dominance of finance capital and capital monopoly of new technologies that has reconstructed the entire third world to serve as production zones of cheap goods or fields of monoculture? To what extent is China implicated in these transformations? How can post-colonial theory address the enormous debt imposed on the global South by former colonial powers? Analysis of the cultural in post-colonial theory depended on the political-economic structure of the Cold War. How do we analyze the cultural in today’s world? And how can political critique and resistance become effective once again in China as well as around the world? \nDai Jinhua is an internationally well-known feminist Marxist critic. She is a Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literatureand Culture and director of the Center for Film and Cultural Studies\, Peking University. Her research interests include popular culture\, film studies\, and gender studies. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dai-jinhua-twenty-first-century-postcolonialism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kevin McDonald\, “Babbo and the Breadfruit: Plants\, Oceans\, and Empires in the Age of Enlightenment”
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAt the end of the eighteenth century\, a fantastic global plot was conjured up by a network of invested individuals that eventually reached the highest levels of the British state and the Admiralty. The plan: to transplant South Pacific breadfruit to the Caribbean Islands to feed the slaves of empire. Slaves grew sugar that fueled the proto-industrial workforce of England\, and sugar produced rum\, that powered the imperial navy. This research talk will explore the trans-oceanic exchanges not just of breadfruit\, but of Atlantic and Pacific maritime cultures from ca. 1767-1798. Tracing the story of Babbo and the breadfruit allows us to intersect the surprisingly entangled histories of the South Pacific\, Europe\, Africa\, and the Caribbean\, in a global history connected by plants\, oceans\, and empires; and the fusion of not two but three tropical farming systems (Africa\, the West Indies\, and the South Pacific). \nKevin McDonald is an Associate Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles\, who received his Ph.D. from UCSC in 2008. His first book\, Pirates\, Merchants\, Settlers\, and Slaves: Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World examined the important role played by pirates in the informal trade networks that integrated economies throughout the Indian and Atlantic Ocean trading worlds. His new project focuses on the transfer of breadfruit from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean as a potential crop to feed the Caribbean’s massive plantations.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kevin-mcdonald-babbo-breadfruit-plants-oceans-empires-age-enlightenment/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Carolyn Burke\, Foursome
DESCRIPTION:THI joins Bookshop Santa Cruz to welcome author Carolyn Burke for a discussion and signing of her new book\, Foursome\, a captivating\, spirited account of the intense relationship among four artists whose strong personalities\, passionate feelings\, and aesthetic ideals drew them together\, pulled them apart\, and profoundly influenced the very shape of twentieth-century art. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz. \nNew York\, 1921: Alfred Stieglitz\, the most influential figure in early twentieth-century photography\, celebrates the success of his latest exhibition—the centerpiece\, a series of nude portraits of the young Georgia O’Keeffe\, soon to be his wife. It is a turning point for O’Keeffe\, poised to make her entrance into the art scene—and for Rebecca Salsbury\, the fiancée of Stieglitz’s protégé at the time\, Paul Strand. When Strand introduces Salsbury to Stieglitz and O’Keeffe\, it is the first moment of a bond between the two couples that will last more than a decade and reverberate throughout their lives. In the years that followed\, O’Keeffe and Stieglitz became the preeminent couple in American modern art\, spurring each other’s creativity. Observing their relationship led Salsbury to encourage new artistic possibilities for Strand and to rethink her own potential as an artist. In fact\, it was Salsbury\, the least known of the four\, who was the main thread that wove the two couples’ lives together. Carolyn Burke mines the correspondence of the foursome to reveal how each inspired\, provoked\, and unsettled the others while pursuing seminal modes of artistic innovation. The result is a surprising\, illuminating portrait of four extraordinary figures. \n“The lives of a quartet of some of the most influential painters and photographers of the early 20th century are chronicled in this intimate and exhaustively researched group biography. [Foursome] offers detailed insight into one of the most important periods in American art.” —Publishers Weekly \nCAROLYN BURKE is the author of No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf\, Lee Miller: A Life (finalist for the NBCC)\, and Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. Born in Sydney\, Australia\, she now lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 11th.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-carolyn-burke-foursome/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Matt Cook\, “Depth-of-Field: Translating the benefits of Virtual Reality from the laboratory to the (higher-ed) classroom”
DESCRIPTION:Increasingly accessible Virtual Reality technologies allow course content to be presented in context\, at human scale\, and responsive to the wide range of body-centered interactions. These representational characteristics\, which define our engagement with real-world objects and environments\, have been shown in the literature to improve performance on activities that overlap significantly with target learning outcomes across multiple disciplines. Yet\, relatively few curricular interventions have made full use of VR (or have published on the results of such integrations). This talk will use case studies and associated implementation strategies to explore and narrow this gap in the research literature\, thereby empowering participants to begin thinking about their own VR-based course integrations.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/matt-cook-depth-field-translating-benefits-virtual-reality-laboratory-higher-ed-classroom/
LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry  Library
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Elizabeth Goldman
DESCRIPTION:World of Robots: Child-Robot Interactions \nHow do children interact with a robot? What features does a robot need to have to appeal to children? Will children help a robot complete a task? The project investigates child-root interactions- specifically how a robot’s behavior will influence how a child responds. The designers which features should be included to create the best possible robots for children. \nElizabeth Goldman is a fourth year doctoral student in the developmental psychology. She works in the Infant and Child Development Lab. Her current line of research focuses on how children interact with robots. Many robots are being designed and marketed towards children. This research focuses on answering questions about how these robots impact children developmentally/ \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-graduate-research-elizabeth-goldman/
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:Celebration of Life: Helene Moglen
DESCRIPTION:Helene Moglen (March 22\, 1936 – October 18\, 2018) \nPlease join us in the celebration of Helene’s life as friend\, colleague\, teacher\, community activist\, mother\, grandmother\, spouse\, former Provost of Kresge College\, and former Dean of Humanities and Art.\nThe celebration will include invited speakers\, and an open microphone for individuals who want to share their stories of Helene. \nLight refreshments will be served.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/celebration-life-helene-moglen/
LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall
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