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SUMMARY:Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation with Alice Barale
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department presents “Art and Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Investigation” with Alice Barale\, University of Milan as part of the 2024-2025 HistCon Speaker Series.  \nJoin us Monday\, October 28 at 1pm PST in Hum 1 Rm 210 or register below to attend virtually: \n \nIt has been several years since the first artwork created with artificial intelligence was sold at the renowned auction house Christie’s in 2018. In the meantime\, new types of artificial intelligence have emerged\, enabling artists to conduct different experiments. However\, the presence of AI in the artistic process continues to raise significant questions. How should its role be understood? And\, more importantly\, what new chances does it offer within the artistic field and beyond? \nAlice Barale is a scholar of Aesthetics and Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage at the University of Milan. She has extensively researched Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin\, authors to whom she has dedicated several essays and two monographs (“La malinconia dell’immagine\,” FUP\, 2009\, and “La prima impresa: Shakespeare in Warburg e Benjamin\,” Jaca Book\, 2021). For Benjamin\, she has edited and translated a new Italian version of “Origin of the German Trauerspiel” (Carocci\, 2018). Among her most recent research interests are the philosophy of color (“Il giallo del colore\,” Jaca Book\, 2020) and the relationship between art and artificial intelligence. She has curated the collected volume “Arte e intelligenza artificiale. Be my GAN” (Jaca Book\, 2020) and has just completed a new book on the subject\, which will be published in November 2024. \nCo-sponsored by Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence & The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/art-and-artificial-intelligence-a-philosophical-investigation-with-alice-barale/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Proactive Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion with Lorato Anderson
DESCRIPTION:How do you proactively promote diversity\, equity\, and inclusion in your role as a graduate student\, a researcher\, a teaching assistant\, and a peer and undergraduate mentor? Learn active steps you can take in every role to promote a just and welcoming environment at UCSC in every space. \nRecommended Reading: Ely\, Robin J.\, and Thomas\, David A. “Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case.” Harvard Business Review\, November-December 2020 Magazine Issue. \nThis event has two sessions: Oct 29\, 1:30-3:00 p.m. in Graduate Student Commons\, Study Lounge 204\, or Oct 31\, 12:00-1:30 p.m. via Zoom. Register below to attend either session. \n \nAs director of diversity\, equity\, and inclusion in the Division of Graduate Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, Lorato Anderson focuses on advancing initiatives for minoritized graduate student support across multiple campus-wide projects and providing direct support to students\, staff\, faculty\, and programs. Lorato graduated with a B.A. in Literature/Writing from UC San Diego and received her M.S. in Higher Education Administration and Policy from Northwestern University\, where she researched and developed assessment models for English language learners and created multiple DEI programs that are still active. She has extensive experience in grant writing\, teaching\, advising\, assessment\, and creating long-lasting research-backed programs to promote minoritized undergraduate and graduate student success. \nLorato has worked on campus since 2016 and received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Achievement Award in Social Sciences. Her previous roles include graduate program adviser and coordinator for Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) and Politics and undergraduate advisor for Psychology. She takes pride in incorporating social justice and empathetic advising strategies and teaching pedagogies into her work in advising\, administration\, and grant and program development. \n\nThis event is a Graduate Division Professional Development Event co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our PhD+ workshop series. The Division of Graduate Studies’ workshops are for current UC Santa Cruz graduate students and postdoctoral scholars and require an active UC Santa Cruz email address. \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops at The Humanities Institute. This series covers a range of topics including possible career paths for humanities PhDs\, securing grants and fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/proactive-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-with-lorato-anderson/
LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, Room 204\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, 95064
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Sandhya Shukla - Cosmopolitanism and Relationality: The Logic of the Cultural Studies We Need Now
DESCRIPTION:When Immanuel Kant suggested in 1798 that a citizenship of the world could be staged in Konigsberg without physical travel\, he illuminated the dense heterogeneity of place. Kant’s insight might be seen to have informed many projects of British cultural studies that situated globality inside locality by focusing on the potential of working-class cultures built through migrancy and racialization in cities like London. US cultural studies\, by contrast\, underemphasized that local-global dynamic\, perhaps because the crossings of daily experience that inspired scholars like Stuart Hall were hard to see through post-1970s America’s balkanization of racial and ethnic identities. And while Hall and others advocated an  interdisciplinarity that took seriously the inextricability of representation and social life\, this was not always fully attended to by the literary criticism that assumed the task of translating British cultural studies for the US academy. This cross-cultural talk brings together the earlier approaches of Hall and the Birmingham school with the histories and stories told about Harlem in order to propose working-class cosmopolitanism as a useful conceptual frame for the political present. \nSandhya Shukla is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Her most recent work is Cross-Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place (Columbia University Press\, 2024).  She is also the author of India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England (Princeton University Press\, 2003)\, and a co-editor of Imagining Our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame (Duke University Press\, 2007).  Her work has appeared in publications such as American Quarterly\, symploke\, and Annual Review of Anthropology. \n The 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/sandhya-shukla-cosmopolitanism-and-relationality-the-logic-of-the-cultural-studies-we-need-now/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Walking in the Ecotone with Jim Clifford
DESCRIPTION:A not to be missed opportunity to explore the UC Santa Cruz Campus\, on and off the footpaths with Professor Jim Clifford. We’ll wander among the trees\, down in the ravines\, out in the meadows. Pooling our different knowledges of environmental\, social\, cultural\, technological and architectural history\, we will try to disentangle the overlapping layers that constitute a unique environment. Meet in front of Humanities 1 at 2:30pm \nJim Clifford is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department. Since his retirement he has photographed the campus\, co-curated an exhibition about its history and published a book of Images and texts\, In the Ecotone\, that evokes the site’s “poetics of space\,” its planning/design history\, and its utopian potential. \nCo-sponsored by: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations in the History of Consciousness Department and the Science and Justice Research Center \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/walking-in-the-ecotone-with-jim-clifford/
LOCATION:Humanities 1
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SUMMARY:Decoding the Headlines: Top News Stories\, Misinformation\, and the 2024 Presidential Campaign
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2024 U.S. Elections Forum Series – Power\, Politics\, and Our Democracy \nUC Santa Cruz is excited to share our U.S. Elections Forum Series to provide a platform for deep conversations about our quickly changing and polarized democracy\, and consider how to participate in and help shape our futures. How do power\, politics\, and the media landscape interact\, disrupt\, and reinforce one another? Join the conversation with our scholars and national thought leaders to learn more about how to think critically about our political processes and the nature of our democracy. There are six events in the series\, all of them are offered online via Zoom\, and three events have an in-person option. More information listed below. Events are free and open to the public. \nFor registration and full program information please visit: https://transform.ucsc.edu/events/2024-elections-forum-series/ \nCo-sponsored by: Institute for Social Transformation\, Merrill College\, The Humanities Institute\, Science and Justice Research Center\, Politics Department Democratic Discourse and Engagement Initiative\, Kresge College\, John R. Lewis College\, and College Nine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/decoding-the-headlines-top-news-stories-misinformation-and-the-2024-presidential-campaign/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?": Spooky Reading Group Potluck
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, November 2 from 6-7pm\, we will have a SPOOKY READING GROUP POTLUCK at West Lake Park. \nOn theme for Halloween and Day of the Dead\, Alisa Puga Keesey will lead us in a discussion of the essay “What is it like to be a bat?” (We think we can observe bats at dusk at West Lake!). Alisa wants the community to know that the essay is heavily philosophical and dense. In our first meeting\, Flora Lu called for inclusivity in our group so that we can speak across disciplinary divides without alienating any of our members\, so the discussion will welcome perspectives\, questions\, and confusions from all of our members. \nPlease sign up to bring a dish to share here. COSTUMES ENCOURAGED! \nPresented by the THI 2024-25 research cluster\, UC Santa Cruz More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/spooky-reading-group-potluck/
LOCATION:Westlake Park\, 149-111 Bradley Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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