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SUMMARY:Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova – Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we continue the Winter 25 session of the HistCon Speaker Series next week! Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova\, University of Bergamo (the class[y] economists) will give their talk “Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration” on Monday\, February 10\, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 420. \nIf you are unable to make it in person\, you can register to attend virtually via the Zoom at this link. \nAbout Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration:\nIn the last decades there has been a large debate of what may be referred to as the “gender question” and the “nature question”. Large parts of feminism and ecologism have been critical of the Marxian approach\, while Marxists have never really engaged in a debate\, either seen the encounter as unproblematical or dismissing it altogether. Discussing also aspects of the Italian debate\, we argue that feminism and ecologism need finally to meet Marx\, at least the Marx where the centrality of the working condition in capitalism is at the same time a criticism of the overwhelming centrality of production. Common misconceptions of what is the meaning of the “primacy of labour” point of view\, as well as about domestic labour and social reproduction\, need to be clarified and dispelled. \nRiccardo Bellofiore\, formerly Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy)\, is interested in the Marxian theory of value and crisis\, the development and crisis of capitalism\, the endogenous theories of money\, the history of economic thought and economic philosophy. He has published ‘The Adventures of Vergesellschaftung’ (in Consecutio Rerum\, 2018) and\, with Giovanna Vertova\, The Great Recession and the Contradiction of Contemporary Capitalism (Edward Elgar\, 2014). He has recently co-edited\, in English with Tommaso Redolfi Riva\, Marx: Key Concepts ((Edward Elgar\, 2024) and\, with Stefano Breda\, the Italian translation of Michael Heinrich’s Die Wissenschaft vom Wert [Science of Value] (Pgreco\, 2024). With Giovanna Vertova he runs the facebook page Economisti di Classe. \nGiovanna Vertova\, Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy)\, is interested in the spatial dimension of economics\, with a focus on the globalization debate; the economics of innovation\, especially in reference to national innovation systems; gender and feminist economics\, especially in relation to the labor market. With Riccardo Bellofiore she has published The Great Recession and the Contradiction of Contemporary Capitalism (Edward Elgar\, 2014). She has recently published chapters for Spinger’s and Elgar’s collective volumes and articles in scientific journals\, on the themes of the permanent catastrophe of capitalism\, gender mainstreaming\, and the so-called Great Resignation. With Riccardo Bellofiore she runs the facebook page Economisti di Classe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nature-women-and-capital-a-critical-reconsideration/
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:Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Primary Wonder: Spirituality\, Art\, and Nature" with Douglas E. Christie
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: “Primary Wonder: Spirituality\, Art\, and Nature” with Douglas E. Christie\, Professor Emeritus in the Theological Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University. \n“Primary wonder.” Poet Denise Levertov describes this as the feeling that sometimes arises within us when we encounter “the mystery/that there is anything\, anything at all/let alone cosmos\, joy\, memory\, everything\,/rather than void.” It is an idea resonant with spiritual meaning\, but sometimes more accessible to us through art\, poetry and nature than through traditional religious practice. This lecture will consider the role art and poetry can play in helping us recover a spirituality of primary wonder–beyond traditional religious practice–especially in relation to the natural world. \nProfessor Christie is the author of The Word in The Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early Christian Monasticism (Oxford\, 1993)\, The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Note for a Contemplative Ecology (Oxford\, 2013)\, and The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Mysticism\, Loss and the Common Life (Oxford\, 2022). He has been awarded fellowships from the Luce Foundation\, the Lilly Foundation\, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. From 2013-2015 he served as Co-director of the Casa de la Mateada study abroad program in Córdoba\, Argentina\, a program rooted in the Jesuit vision of education for solidarity. He lives with his family in Los Angeles. He is currently working on a book on the desert as spiritual landscape. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the Council of Provosts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phi-beta-kappa-visiting-scholar-lecture-with-douglas-e-christie/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Armen Khatchatourov - Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a thought-provoking talk with Armen Khatchatourov on “Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems.” \nIf you are unable to make it in person\, you can attend virtually via Zoom. \nThe rapid proliferation of AI-based systems has transformed how we understand and relate to normativity. Drawing on Foucault’s insights\, Armen Khatchatourov will explore how social norms are translated into dynamic\, adaptable AI systems and how these technologies redefine our relationship with normativity through their opacity and adjustability. This talk will present a heuristic approach to unpacking the ways normative concepts operate within AI technologies and their implications for society and governance. \nArmen Khatchatourov is an Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the DICEN-IdF Lab\, University Gustave Eiffel\, Paris\, France. With a dual background in engineering and the philosophy of technology\, Armen has held research positions at leading institutions such as Institut Mines-Télécom and Sony Computer Science Lab Paris. His work spans digital identities\, privacy\, smart cities\, and the societal impacts of Big Data and AI. He is the author of Digital Identities in Tension: Between Autonomy and Control (ISTE/Wiley\, 2019) and Corps Connectés. Figures\, Fragments\, Discours (Presses des Mines\, 2022)\, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Études Digitales. \n\nThe Humanities Institute Research cluster\, “Humanities in the Age of AI\,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes 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. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/armen-khatchatourov-truths-and-rewards-of-algorithmic-governmentality/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deep Read Salon: Revisiting Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Deep Read salon on Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn featuring UC Santa Cruz Professor of Literature and Twain scholar\, Susan Gillman. Prof. Gillman will discuss Twain’s novel in the context of 19th-century popular literature and political history and explore its broader cultural influence and reach as our American idol and target. She’ll help lay the groundwork for understanding this year’s Deep Read book\, Percival Everett’s James\, a rewriting of Huckleberry Finn that engages with both Twain’s novel and legacy. After delivering a brief lecture\, Prof. Gillman will be in conversation with Vilashini Cooppan (UCSC Professor of Literature\, Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead) and Laura Martin (UCSC Lecturer\, Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead). \n \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-talk-on-mark-twains-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/
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SUMMARY:La Marr Jurelle Bruce – COME OUTSIDE: Black Love\, Open Sky
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is culled from The Afromantic: Black Love Out Yonder\, a book-length cultural history\, critical theory\, aesthetic expression\, and existential assertion of B/black love outside. The project will follow black love to cookouts\, carnivals\, rooftops\, rallies\, jazz funerals\, cruising spots\, garden plots\, hush harbors\, distant stars\, and forest clearings—emphasizing ways of loving that escape and exceed normative enclosures of Western modernity. In a public sphere overrun with spectacles of black death outside\, I plan to compile a counter-archive and counter-narrative of B/black love that can breathe under open sky\, in the open air. \nLa Marr Jurelle Bruce is a philosopher\, fever dreamer\, interdisciplinary humanities scholar\, first-generation college graduate\, and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland\, College Park. Much of his scholarship explores and activates B/black\, queer\, and mad expressive cultures—spanning literature\, music\, film\, theatre\, and the art and aesthetics of quotidian life. Dr. Bruce’s writing is featured or forthcoming in African American Review\, American Quarterly\, The Black Scholar\, GLQ\, Social Text\, TDR\, and several anthologies. His debut book\, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (2021)\, earned the Modern Language Association’s First Book Prize. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/la-marr-jurelle-bruce-come-outside/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Career Workshop: Using LinkedIn to Accelerate Your Career
DESCRIPTION:LinkedIn can be a powerful tool to leverage in your career journey. Join us for a fast-paced and practical workshop where you’ll learn how to create a professional and dynamic LinkedIn profile\, as well as how to use various LinkedIn resources to improve your networking and job search skills! \n \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/career-workshop-using-linkedin-to-accelerate-your-career/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 1
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s\, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606)\, a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton\, Professor of English at the University of Montana\, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play\, will be the production’s visiting scholar. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \n \nGretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works\, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana\, and she works frequently as a dramaturg\, script adaptor\, and director.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-timon-of-athens-episode-1/
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SUMMARY:Derek Penslar - Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State?
DESCRIPTION:Due to the atmospheric river event effecting  Santa Cruz County\, this event will now take place via Zoom. Everyone who has RSVP’d for the event will receive a Zoom link. Anyone interested in attending the virtual event can register below using the “register” button.  \n\nThe Center for Jewish Studies Presents The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies featuring Derek Penslar. Derek Penslar will be presenting his talk titled Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State? \n \nSince the 1960s\, referencing Israel as settler-colonial has been a common polemical practice\, a means of delegitimization of the state of Israel and those who believe in its right to exist. But over this same period\, scholars have done serious work on the relationship between Zionism\, Israel\, and settler-colonialism. This talk will separate the analytical from the polemic threads in the discourse on Israel and settler-colonialism. It will propose a new vocabulary\, both more flexible and precise\, to describe Israel and that can be more conducive to a just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. \nDerek Penslar Harvard University\nDerek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. He has published a dozen books\, most recently Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (2020; German ed. 2022); and Zionism: An Emotional State (2023). He is currently writing a book titled The War for Palestine\, 1947-1949: A Global History. He is a past president of the American Academy for Jewish Research\, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, and an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College\, Oxford. \n  \n\nEvery year\, the Jewish Studies Department honors Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. See a full list of previous Diller lectures here. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-helen-diller-distinguished-lecture-in-jewish-studies-featuring-derek-penslar/
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SUMMARY:Thomas Haigh--Artificial Intelligence: The Brand That Wouldn't Die
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this undergraduate-facing event at the Merrill Cultural Center featuring leading historian of computing\, Thomas Haigh. He will contextualize the current Artificial Intelligence hype in the longer history of boom and bust for for the AI brand\, critiquing claims made for large language models. Pizza will be served and all are welcome. Presented by Merrill College/Ming Ong Tech Cluster and co-sponsored by Humanizing Technology and the Humanities Division. \nThomas Haigh is lead author of A New History of Modern Computing (MIT Press\, 2022) and ENIAC In Action: Making & Remaking the Modern Computer (MIT Press\, 2016) and a regular contributor to Communications of the ACM. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thomas-haigh-artificial-intelligence-the-brand-that-wouldnt-die/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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