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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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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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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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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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