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SUMMARY:Winter 2024 Aurora Lecture:  Professor James Laine
DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department is pleased to invite you to the 2024 Winter Aurora Lecture featuring Professor James W. Laine\, Arnold H. Lowe Professor of Religious Studies\, Macalester College. \nJoin Professor James Laine for a lecture\, entitled “Early Modern Cosmopolitanism: Steps on the Road to an Idea of Religious Tolerance” with discussants Anna Bigelow – Associate Professor of Religion at Stanford University and G.S. Sahota – Associate Professor of Literature and Aurora Chair at UC Santa Cruz. \nProfessor James Laine will be presenting the lecture on March 11th\, as well as leading a book discussion of his Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History on March 12th. \nFor more information about the book discussion visit: Aurora Lecture Book Discussion.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/winter-2024-aurora-lecture/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Pranav Anand
DESCRIPTION:Pranav Anand joins Slugs and Steins to deliver his talk titled “Language Models: A Selective History and Notes on the Future.” Drawing on the Humanities Division’s Humanizing Technology curriculum\, will highlight some of the history of language models now ascendant in systems like ChatGPT. We will wend our way from early cryptography through the beginnings of machine translation\, and into the data-rich present of large language models. Along the way\, we will contemplate the ways that developments in technology have been driven by historical backdrop\, and leverage that understanding to contemplate what the near future will look like. \nPranav Anand is a Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz and Faculty Director of the Humanities Institute\, specializing in semantics and pragmatics\, particularly in the study of context-dependence\, perspectival expressions\, and subjectivity. His work\, which leverages linguistic fieldwork\, logical analysis\, philosophy of language\, and computational linguistics\, has examined affect and sentiment\, debate and persuasion\, narrative\, ellipsis and fragments\, and modality and knowledge. \nRegister for the Zoom Webinar below: \n \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz University Events office at specialevents@ucsc.edu. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-pranav-anand/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Border Tech\, Embodiment\, and Gender
DESCRIPTION:Join the UCSC Feminist Studies Department for the Border Tech Event: a roundtable conversation on Border Tech\, Embodiment\, and Gender with Diana J. Montaño (Washington University in St Louis)\, Irina Córdoba Ramírez (Universidad Nacional Autonoma of Mexico)\, and Iván Chaar López (University of Texas at Austin)\, moderated by USCC Professor Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. These three authors will give lightning talks on their recently published/forthcoming books. Lunch will be served following the event. \nIván Chaar López’  forthcoming book\, The Cybernetic Border: Drones\, Technology\, and Intrusion shows how U.S. borders\, since the 1970s\, are more than walls or fences; they are regimes of datafication and racialization.\nIrina Córdoba Ramírez’ book\, Desarrollo agrícola y acuerdo políticos en el norte de México: Los centros de contratación de programa bracero\, 1947-1964\, considers how agricultural development in Northern Mexico affected internal migratory flows of Mexican actors before the Bracero Program shaped Mexico-U.S. migratory relations.\nDiana J. Montaño’s book\, Electrifying Mexico: Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City (2023) explores the role of electricity in Mexico’s economic and political evolution\, especially investigating how inventions and adaptations served local needs while fostering new ideas of time and space\, body and self\, the national and the foreign. \nThis event is sponsored by the UCSC Peggy and Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies\, the Feminist Studies Department\, the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\, UC Santa Cruz\, Universidad Nacional Autonoma of Mexico Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas\, and The University of Texas at Austin Department of American Studies. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/border-tech-embodiment-and-gender/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Aurora Lecture Book Discussion with Professor James Laine
DESCRIPTION:Join Professor James Laine for a book discussion of his Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History (2014) in conversation with G.S. Sahota – Associate Professor of Literature and Aurora Chair at UC Santa Cruz. \nProfessor James Laine will also be presenting the Winter 2024 Aurora Lecture on March 11th. For more information about this event\, please visit Winter 2024 Aurora Lecture.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aurora-book-discussion/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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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-5/2024-03-13/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 515\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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