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SUMMARY:Katie Shilton - Trust\, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI
DESCRIPTION:This meeting is scheduled for February 18th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker\, Katie Shilton speaking on “Trust\, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI.” \nAs the discourse on responsible and trustworthy AI intensifies\, Participatory AI (PAI) presents a compelling approach to the democratic development of automated technologies. But how should we think about how and whether participatory methods increase trust in\, and the trustworthiness of\, AI systems? This talk will report on a systematic examination of the landscape of methods and theoretical lenses used in global participatory AI projects\, and connect those methods and lenses to trust building. The talk will explore differences in theoretical frameworks\, participation methods\, and the details of shared tasks within the AI lifecycle across sectors and geographies. Our findings reveal an evolving definition of PAI\, with actors implementing diverse methods and shared tasks. Focusing on shared tasks also provides a lens for analyzing how participation can build trust in\, and trustworthiness of\, AI systems. Our analysis reveals that participation alone is not necessarily a straightforward approach to building public trust in AI technologies\, but that the promise of participation lies in trustworthiness by increasing the diversity of expertise engaged in alignment and decision-making within AI technologies. \nKatie Shilton is a professor in the College of Information at the University of Maryland\, College Park\, and is currently visiting faculty in Computational Media at UCSC. Her research focuses on technology and data ethics. She is a co-PI of the NSF Institute for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Law & Society (TRAILS) and a co-PI of the UMD Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence (VCAI) initiative. She was also recently the PI of the PERVADE project\, a multi-campus collaboration focused on big data research ethics. Other projects include improving online content moderation with human-in-the-loop machine learning techniques and designing experiential data ethics education. Katie received a B.A. from Oberlin College\, a Master of Library and Information Science from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Information Studies from UCLA. \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/katie-shilton-trust-trustworthiness-and-participation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Bay Area Journalist Joe Eskenazi
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with City on a Hill Press and with support from The Humanities Institute and The Alumni Association\, Kresge’s Media and Society Series presents an evening with acclaimed journalist Joe Eskenazi\, who will speak to the nuts and bolts of regionally rooted reporting\, and survey several of his most impactful stories. \nJoe Eskenazi is the managing editor of Mission Local\, and has written for the Guardian\, San Francisco Public Press\, San Francisco Chronicle\, San Francisco Examiner\, and SF Weekly\, where he was a regular columnist from 2007 to 2015. He has also served as a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-conversation-with-joe-eskenazi/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Valentin Lopez – Amah Mutsun Tribal History & Importance of Traditional Land Stewardship
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Valentin Lopez\, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band for his talk “Amah Mutsun Tribal History & Importance of Traditional Land Stewardship.” \nValentin Lopez is the Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band\, one of three historic tribes that are recognized as Ohlone. The Amah Mutsun are comprised of the indigenous descendants forcibly taken to Missions San Juan Bautista and Santa Cruz. Chairman Lopez is also the President of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust which was established in 2012. He is a Native American Advisor to the University of California\, Office of the President. He is also a Native American Adviser to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). The Amah Mutsun are currently working to restore their traditional indigenous knowledge regarding land stewardship and ensuring that truthful history is taught. Consequently\, the Amah Mutsun are very active in conservation and protection efforts within their traditional tribal territory. Chairman Lopez is working to restore the Mutsun Language and is a traditional Mutsun singer and dancer. \nThis event is presented by the THI More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/valentin-lopez-amah-mutsun-tribal-history/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ajay Skaria – The Part of the Indigenous: Adivasis and the Subaltern Intimation of Freedom
DESCRIPTION:This talk attends to what the Subaltern Studies tradition begins to think and gives to our own times to think. The emergence of Subaltern Studies was part of the increasing prominence of the “New Social Movements\,” new because they were focused more on oppression than exploitation. Recognizing this allows us to discern that the Subaltern Studies project is driven by a subaltern intimation of freedom—a freedom that recognizes that domination takes the form of not only exploitation but oppression\, and a freedom that\, even as it exits subalternity\, seeks not to make a new group subaltern in either way. Revisiting my 1999 book\, Hybrid Histories\, I explore this subaltern intimation of freedom by focusing on 1) how it played a role in the turn away from a focus on subaltern autonomy; 2) how the community constituted by it differs from those constituted by claims to oppression such as those made by Hindu nationalists or white nationalists; and 3) how it allows us to read differently the claim to indigeneity involved in the identity “Adivasi.” \nAjay Skaria studied Political Science and History at Maharaja Sayajirao University\, Vadodara\, during which he also worked as a journalist for Indian Express. He teaches at the University of Minnesota. A member of the Subaltern Studies editorial collective from 1995 till its dissolution\, he is one of the co-editors of Subaltern Studies Vol. XII\, and the author of Hybrid Histories: Forests\, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India (1999) and Unconditional Equality: Gandhi’s Religion of Resistance (2016). He is currently completing a collection of essays\, Thinking With Gandhi and Ambedkar\, and is also working on another book\, Ambedkar’s Buddhism. \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/ajay-skaria-the-part-of-the-indigenous-adivasis-and-the-subaltern-intimation-of-freedom/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 2
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. \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-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture: G. S. Sahota
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome G.S. Sahota—Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz for a conversation on Equality of the Minor: Ambedkar’s Critical Legacy Today. This engaging discussion will take place on February 20\, 2025 at 3:30 PM in Humanities 1\, Room 202. You can also join us virtually via Zoom: \n \nThis event is a part of the Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fall-2024-aurora-lecture-g-s-sahota/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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