Events
Week of Events
Anne Norton; “Theses on Democracy or, The People, Steering”
Anne Norton; “Theses on Democracy or, The People, Steering”
Anne 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 […]
Prof and a Pint: “Polarization and Public Discourse: How We Got Here and What We Do Now”
Prof and a Pint: “Polarization and Public Discourse: How We Got Here and What We Do Now”
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 […]
Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Please note: this event was rescheduled from February 12 The 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, […]
Dai Jinhua: “On Twenty-first Century Postcolonialism”
Dai Jinhua: “On Twenty-first Century Postcolonialism”
Dai 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 […]
Kevin McDonald, “Babbo and the Breadfruit: Plants, Oceans, and Empires in the Age of Enlightenment”
Kevin McDonald, “Babbo and the Breadfruit: Plants, Oceans, and Empires in the Age of Enlightenment”
At 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 […]
Book Talk: Carolyn Burke, Foursome
Book Talk: Carolyn Burke, Foursome
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 […]
Matt Cook, “Depth-of-Field: Translating the benefits of Virtual Reality from the laboratory to the (higher-ed) classroom”
Matt Cook, “Depth-of-Field: Translating the benefits of Virtual Reality from the laboratory to the (higher-ed) classroom”
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 […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Elizabeth Goldman
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Elizabeth Goldman
World of Robots: Child-Robot Interactions How 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 […]
Celebration of Life: Helene Moglen
Celebration of Life: Helene Moglen
Helene Moglen (March 22, 1936 – October 18, 2018) Please 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. The celebration will include invited speakers, and an open microphone for individuals who want to share their […]