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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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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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