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SUMMARY:Davide Panagia: Political Theory\, Democracy\, and the Challenges of Algorithmic Governance
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will raise some challenges that political theorists face when reflecting on the political import of algorithmic governance. I do not develop normative or epistemic insights into these challenges\, and in fact suggest that such an approach is problematic. Rather\, I proceed by articulating some aspects of the political ontology of algorithms that\, I suggest\, are decidedly different from our more conventional intuitions (classically derived from Aristotle) on what a medium is and how it operates. I then proceed to suggest that the biggest challenge raised to political and democratic thought by algorithmic governance regards a critical theory adequate to the claims of the medium. On this last point\, I attempt to reconstruct what I believe are the basic conceptual elements that need to be considered in a political theory of algorithms. \nDavide Panagia is a political theorist and Professor and Chair of Political Science at UCLA. He is a former Co-Editor of the journals Political Theory and Theory and Event. His forthcoming monograph publications include: Intermedialities: Political Theory and Cinematic Experience (Northwestern University Press\, 2024) and Sentimental Empiricism: Politics\, Philosophy\, and Criticism in Postwar France (Fordham Un diversity Press\, 2024). \n  \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Cluster and the History of Consciousness Department. This talk is a part of the HISC Winter 2024 Speaker Series. \nThe event will take place in-person in Humanities 1\, Room 210 at 11:30am 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/political-theory-democracy-and-the-challenges-of-algorithmic-governance/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Wei Wang - “The Effect of Instruction on L2 Learners’ Interactional Competence: Listener Responses in Chinese as a Second Language”
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present: \n“The Effect of Instruction on L2 Learners’ Interactional Competence:\nListener Responses in Chinese as a Second Language”\nwith Wei Wang\, Ph.D.\nUniversity of Houston \n\nAbstract \nThis study investigates whether classroom instruction is effective in promoting L2 Chinese learners’ interactional competence (IC) as indexed by learners’ use of listener responses (LRs). LR refers to a response produced by a non-primary speaker\, which provides information about how the just-prior utterances were understood by the listener. \nSix types of LRs are examined in this study: \na) response particle such as o\, a\, en\nb) reactive expression\, e.g. dui ‘right’\, shi ma ‘really’\nc) repetition\nd) assessment\ne) tying expression\nf) follow-up action \nThis study takes a quasi-experiment design\, with an Experimental Group (n=17) receiving a semester-long IC instruction including LRs and a Control Group (n=11) with no IC instruction. All learners were asked to video-tape two unscripted conversations with a same L1 interlocutor\, one at midterm and one at semester-end. Comparing the two groups’ changes in LR frequency\, statistical tests reveal that they differ significantly in reactive expression and follow-up action; no significant effect is observed in the other four LRs. Subsequent qualitative analyses\, guided by the conversation analysis framework\, discover that LRs produced by the Experimental Group display increased linguistic complexity and variety as well as heightened sensitivity to intersubjectivity. The quantitative and qualitative evidence combined points to a likely positive effect of classroom instruction on L2 Chinese learners’ IC development as indexed by their use of LRs. \n  \nJoin us for this special research talk on Tuesday\, February 13th at 10:00 am!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wei-wang-the-effect-of-instruction-on-l2-learners-interactional-competence/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Anthony Yacovone
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: \nAnthony Yacovone\nTufts University / Massachusetts General Hospital \nspeaking on \nPrediction is a piece of ceke: Developmental and psycholinguistic evidence for prediction of word-forms during natural language comprehension.\n\nAbstract \nFor decades\, psycholinguists have fiercely debated the role and centrality of prediction in human language. These debates center on whether people routinely predict specific lexical items and their word-forms during comprehension. To date\, form-based prediction has been poorly replicated and only seems to emerge in the most constraining of experiments. These findings are often taken as evidence that form-based prediction is likely to be an artifact of how we study language in the lab\, and thus\, it is unlikely to play a central role in natural language processing. \nIn this talk\, I will present three studies that use electroencephalography (EEG) to assess form-based prediction during naturalistic comprehension. Study 1 asks whether English-speaking adults predict the phonological form of upcoming words while listening to a children’s story. In Studies 2 and 3\, I ask how prediction of this kind develops. I will end my talk by outlining my plans for future research and briefly discussing how this work might inform research efforts in linguistics more broadly. \n  \nJoin us in person for this special talk on Tuesday\, February 13th at 11:40 am!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-yacovone-prediction-is-a-piece-of-ceke/
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-5/2024-02-14/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thenmozhi Soundarajan - The Trauma of Caste and the US Equity Movement: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship\, Healing\, and Abolition
DESCRIPTION:Thenmozhi Soundarajan is a Dalit American commentator on religion\, race\, caste\, gender\, technology\, and justice. She is the Executive Director of Equality Labs and the author of The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship\, Healing\, and Abolition. \nThis event is presented by the Center for South Asian Studies as a part of the 2023-2024 Lecture Series Crossings. The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies\, as a part of the weekly Cultural Studies Colloquium. \nJoin us in person in Humanities 1\, Room 210\, or register to attend virtually here. \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/the-trauma-of-caste-and-the-us-equity-movement/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture - Lisa Lowe: Histories of the Colonial Present
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture\, featuring Lisa Lowe. Guests who attend in person are invited to join us for a reception with light refreshments and beverages at 5:30 p.m. \nSettler colonialism\, slavery\, migration\, and imperial war have been integral to the emergence of the U.S. nation\, state\, and economy\, and the consequences of these histories continue today. In this lecture Lowe examines colonial formations and their imbricated relations\, their durability and the persistence of anti-colonial struggles against them\, and asks: In what ways does a reckoning with colonial histories unsettle and transform the way we understand modernity\, capitalism\, and the political present? If this colonial historical past is not “over\,” but is actively suppressed in national memory\, how is it possible to conceive this longue durée as something unthought yet known\, that is\, a web of relation that we may be unable to think or fully fathom\, even as we are reminded it is something we once knew? \nGuests are also welcome to join the virtual webinar via Zoom. Simply register below. Thank you! \n \n  \n \nLisa Lowe (Ph.D. ’86\, literature) is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale. A former student of Hayden White’s\, Lisa Lowe received her Ph.D. in 1986. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work is concerned with the analysis of race\, immigration\, capitalism\, and colonialism\, the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell University Press\, 1991)\, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke University Press\, 1996)\, and The Intimacies of Four Continents (Duke University Press\, 2015); she is co-editor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke University Press\, 1997) and New Questions\, New Formations: Asian American Studies\, a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique 5:2 (Fall 1997). Before joining Yale\, Lowe taught at the University of California\, San Diego and Tufts University. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim\, Rockefeller\, and Mellon Foundations\, the School of Advanced Study at the University of London\, the UC Humanities Research Institute\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. \n  \nThe Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund\, an endowment that supports yearly lectures relevant to historical and cultural theory\, and to ensure that Hayden White’s legacy and intellectual spirit is honored and sustained.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-lowe-histories-of-the-colonial-present/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nishat Khan Sitar Performance
DESCRIPTION:A performance of Indian Classical Music with Nishat Khan (sitar) and Nitin Mitta (tabla) \nUstad Nishat Khan is one of India’s finest musicians and a virtuoso sitar player\, transcending musical barriers with his provocative expression and spellbinding technical mastery. Nishat stands at the threshold of the future of sitar and Indian music with his uniquely invigorating and contemporary approach. He is the son and disciple of Ustad Imrat Khan\, the nephew of the late Ustad Vilayat Khan and a member of one of the oldest and most prestigious musical families and schools in India – the Imdadkani Ganara of Etawah. Nishat draws on his own musical heritage that is the North Indian classical idiom as well as engages in other genres as diverse as Western classical music\, jazz\, Flamenco and Gregorian chant. He has worked with other major performers and composers such as John McLaughlin\, Philip Glass\, Paco Peña and Evelyn Glennie among many others. \nNitin Mitta is one of the most sought-after tabla players of his generation. He has performed with many of the top-notch Indian Classical Musicians worldwide. He has also collaborated with Grammy-nominated pianist Vijay Iyer and Carnatic electric guitarist R. Prasanna to produce their album titled Tirtha. Nitin’s gurus\, Pandit G.Satyanarayana and Pandit Arvind Mulgaonkar\, were disciples of Ustad Amir Hussain Khan\, the legendary doyen of the Farukhabad Gharana of Tabla. Nitin has been mentoring many young tabla enthusiasts and also teaches Tabla at Brown University in Providence\, Rhode Island. Nitin has performed at the Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall\, at Lincoln Center\, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. \nADMISSION \n\nGeneral admission\nTickets available online via Eventbrite\nDoors scheduled to open 30 minutes prior to event start time\n\nPARKING \n\nLot 126 is the closest parking lot to the event\nParking is by UCSC permit\, Park Mobile\, or pay $5 cash/credit to the on-site parking attendant in Lot 126\nMore visitor information here\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by the Music Department and co-sponsored by the UCSC Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nishat-khan-2024/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC\, 402 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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