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SUMMARY:Antisemitism and the Internet: Old Hatred and New
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Paul Schraub: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAs Ian Bogost noted in The Atlantic this week\, recent events have shown that internet technologies facilitate the rapid spread of forms of bigotry and hatred\, and the planning of violent terror attacks. \nThis year’s UC Santa Cruz Night at the Museum seeks to explore the relationship between these technologies and antisemitism\, asking: Is there something new about antisemitism today or is it just a continuation of old images and fears? How do social media platforms create environments for the viral spread of global antisemitism? \nJoin Nathaniel Deutsch and Rachel Deblinger\, co-directors of the Digital Jewish Studies Initiative at UC Santa Cruz\, to discuss these questions and explore how scholars of antisemitism can work closely with members of the tech community to fight against this and related forms of hatred toward others. \n\nRegistration Required \nDoors open at 6:30pm. Program begins at 7:00pm. \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact the THI at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by May 6\, 2019. \nEvent info: \n\nRegistration is required for entrance into this event.\nDoors open at 6:30pm. Program begins at 7:00pm.\nDirections to the Computer History Museum are here.\n\nSecurity: \n\nPlease be aware that all attendees must pass through security to enter the event venue. Make sure to carefully review the below information to ensure your entry to the event.\nThere will be no in and out privileges. Once you have passed through security\, if you leave the venue re-entry will not be permitted.\nAll bags are subject to search. Prohibited items include weapons\, drugs\, and knives of any kind. Anything deemed unsafe by the security team will not be permitted to enter the venue.\nAll bags\, including briefcases\, purses\, luggage and diaper bags\, larger than 14” x 14” x 6” are not permitted. Backpacks and hard-sided bags of any kind are also prohibited. Single-compartment drawstring bags and fashion backpack purses that are smaller than 14” x 14” x 6” are permitted.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anti-semitism-online/
LOCATION:CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Paolo Gerbaudo\, The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy
DESCRIPTION:  \nPaolo Gerbaudo is the Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College\, London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism (2012)\, The Mask and the Flag: Citizenism and Global Protest (2017)\, and Digital Parties: Political Organization and Online Democracy (2018).\nFrom the movements behind Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in UK\, to the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain and the 5-Star Movement in Italy\, to Jean-Luc Melenchon’s presidential bid in France\, the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new blueprint for political organization: the ‘digital party’. These new political formations tap into the potential of social media\, and use online participatory platforms to include the rank-and-file. Drawing on interviews with key political leaders and digital organizers\, Gerbaudo argues that with new structures come worrying changes in political forms\, such as the growth of power cliques and the need for centralized\, charismatic leaders\, the erosion of intermediary party layers and the loss of accountability. However\, there is also a growth of strong unity at the centre and extreme flexibility at the margins\, creating a promising template which could counter the social polarization created by the Great Recession and the failures of liberal democracy. \nPart of the THI Data and Democracy Initiative. Lecture co-sponsored by the Politics Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lecture-paolo-gerbaudo/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190314T160000
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SUMMARY:Matt Cook\, “Depth-of-Field: Translating the benefits of Virtual Reality from the laboratory to the (higher-ed) classroom”
DESCRIPTION:Increasingly accessible Virtual Reality technologies allow course content to be presented in context\, at human scale\, and responsive to the wide range of body-centered interactions. These representational characteristics\, which define our engagement with real-world objects and environments\, have been shown in the literature to improve performance on activities that overlap significantly with target learning outcomes across multiple disciplines. Yet\, relatively few curricular interventions have made full use of VR (or have published on the results of such integrations). This talk will use case studies and associated implementation strategies to explore and narrow this gap in the research literature\, thereby empowering participants to begin thinking about their own VR-based course integrations.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/matt-cook-depth-field-translating-benefits-virtual-reality-laboratory-higher-ed-classroom/
LOCATION:Digital Scholarship Commons\, McHenry  Library
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T190000
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SUMMARY:James Loeffler\, “The Right to Be Heard – Jews\, Human Rights\, and Global Democracy"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nPresented by The Humanities Institute and The Center for Jewish Studies \n2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights amid a time of crisis for global democracy. It is imperative that we revisit the history of the modern Human Rights movement and reexamine the relationship between the Holocaust\, the legal framework of Human Rights\, and the struggle to find justice on the global scale. \n\n\nIn this talk\, James Loeffler draws on his new book\, Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century\, to revisit the 1948 moment in which modern human rights was born. This talk will also address the challenges and opportunities for minorities and stateless peoples by focusing on Jewish human rights pioneers who saw the Jewish state as an expression of global democracy. Join THI to ask where Human Rights come from\, how Jews are part of the story\, and if Zionism is in conflict with the modern Human Rights movement? \n\n\n\nRSVP appreciated\, seating is first come\, first served. Reception to follow. \n \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by February 16th. \nParking and Directions to the UC Santa Cruz Cowell Ranch Hay Barn  \n  \nJames Loeffler is Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Between 2013 and 2015 he was a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow in International Law and Dean’s Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown University Law Center. At UVa he teaches courses in Jewish and European history\, Russian and East European history\, international legal history\, and the history of human rights. \nHis publications include Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press\, 2018) and The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire (Yale University Press\, 2010)\, and the forthcoming edited volume\, The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyering and International Law in Historical Perspective (Cambridge University Press). \nThis event is part of the THI Data and Democracy Initiative\, a project of Expanding Humanities\, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \n— \nThe Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies \nEvery year\, we honor 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. \nVisit our lecture archive online >
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/jim-loeffler-helen-diller/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190212T190000
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SUMMARY:Rescheduled to MARCH 12: Safiya Noble\, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 12.\nPlease join us then.\nThe landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet\, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are not impartial\, disembodied\, or lacking positionality. Technologies consist of a set of social practices\, situated within the dynamics of race\, gender\, class\, and politics\, and in the service of something – a position\, a profit motive\, a means to an end. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will discuss her new book\, Algorithms of Oppression\, and the impact of marginalization and misrepresentation in commercial information platforms like Google search\, as well as the implications for public information needs. \n  \nThis talk is co-sponsored by Kresge College’s Media and Society Lecture Series\, The Science & Justice Research Center\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Department of Sociology. \n— \nDr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies\, and a visiting faculty member to the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication. Previously\, she was an Assistant Professor in Department of Media and Cinema Studies and the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2019\, she will join the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow. \nShe is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines\, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press). \nSafiya is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award. Her academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary\, marking the ways that digital media impacts and intersects with issues of race\, gender\, culture\, and technology. She is regularly quoted for her expertise by national and international press on issues of algorithmic discrimination and technology bias\, including The Guardian\, the BBC\, CNN International\, USA Today\, Wired\, Time\, and The New York Times\, to name a few. \nDr. Noble is the co-editor of two edited volumes: The Intersectional Internet: Race\, Sex\, Culture and Class Online and Emotions\, Technology & Design. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies\, and is the co-editor of the Commentary & Criticism section of the Journal of Feminist Media Studies. She is a member of several academic journal and advisory boards\, including Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University\, Fresno where she was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2018.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/safiya-noble-algorithms-mobility-justice-event/
LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190129T190000
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SUMMARY:Questions That Matter: Data and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Technology increasingly shapes our habits and defines our access to information. As our society navigates shifting sources of news\, targeted advertising\, and polarizing online rhetoric\, it is essential that we work to understand the complex and often obscured relationship between data and democracy. \nJoin THI to explore how we got here and to imagine a more inclusive\, open\, and transparent future. Part of our conversation about Data and Democracy. \nFeaturing: \nPranav Anand\, Associate Professor of Linguistics\nLise Getoor\, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering \nModerated by: \nNathaniel Deutsch\, Director of the Humanities Institute \n \nQuestions that Matter “Data and Democracy” from THI on Vimeo. \nEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 25th. \n Questions That Matter: A Series of Public Dialogues in Santa Cruz\nA public humanities series developed by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the community of Santa Cruz – bringing together two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us. The series is a part of a strategic initiative of the Institute to champion the role and value of the humanities in contemporary life. At the University of California Santa Cruz\, we understand that the humanities are a crucial element of any first-rate liberal arts education. Indeed\, what distinguishes the best universities in the United States is the fact that the humanities are an integral part of their core curriculum\, along with the arts and sciences. The series is designed as a lecture and conversation\, with plenty of time built in for participant questions and answers. We invite you to join us on January 29\, 2019 at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center for “Data and Democracy.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/questions-matter-data-democracy/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SUMMARY:Stuart Russell: “Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence”
DESCRIPTION:Stuart Russell will survey recent and expected developments in AI and their implications. Some are enormously positive\, while others\, such as the development of autonomous weapons and the replacement of humans in economic roles\, may be negative. Beyond these\, one must expect that AI capabilities will eventually exceed those of humans across a range of real-world decision making scenarios. Should this be a cause for concern\, as Elon Musk\, Stephen Hawking\, and others have suggested? And\, if so\, what can we do about it?  While some in the mainstream AI community dismiss the issue\, I will argue that the problem is real and that the technical aspects of it are solvable if we replace current definitions of AI with a version based on provable benefit to humans. \nDr. Russell will appear as a guest lecturer for Dr. David Haussler’s Scientific Principles of Life class. All are welcome. \n  \nStuart Russell\, professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley\, is one of the world leaders in this area\, see\, e.g. his TED talk here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stuart-russell-human-compatible-artificial-intelligence/
LOCATION:Nat. Sci Annex Auditorium 101\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T160000
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SUMMARY:Algorithms\, Mobility\, and Justice
DESCRIPTION:Are moral algorithms a reasonable solution for taking advantage of life-saving potentials of self-driving cars? In this talk\, Neda Atanasoski (UCSC Professor of Feminist Studies) will engage the utilitarian framings that are dominant in the discourses on self-driving cars inclusive of the assumptions that are folded into the question above: that algorithms can be moral and self-driving cars will save lives. Drawing on feminist and care ethics\, Atanasoski brings to fore the injustices built into current and future mobility systems such as laws and policies that protect car manufacturers and algorithmic biases that will have disproportionate negative impacts on the most vulnerable. Moreover\, it is argued that a constricted moral imagination dominated by the reductive scenarios of the Trolley Problems is impairing design imagination of alternative futures. More specifically\, that a genuine caring concern for the many lives lost in car accidents now and in the future—a concern that transcends false binary trade-offs and that recognizes the systemic biases and power structures—could serve as a starting point to rethink mobility\, as it connects to the design of cities\, the well-being of communities\, and the future of the planet. \nNeda Atanasoski is Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, Director of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and affiliated with the Film and Digital Media Department. Atanasoski has a PhD in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of California\, San Diego. Her research interests include race and technology; war and nationalism; gender\, ethnicity\, and religion; cultural studies and critical theory; media studies. \nNassim JafariNaimi is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the School of Literature\, Media\, and Communication at Georgia Tech and the director of the Design and Social Interaction Studio which she established in 2013. JafariNaimi’s research engages the ethical and political dimensions of design practice and technology especially as related to democracy and social justice. Her research spans both theoretical and design-based inquiries situated at the intersection of Design Studies\, Science and Technology Studies\, and Human Computer Interaction. Her writing on topics such as participatory media\, smart cities\, social and educational games\, and algorithms have appeared in venues such as Science\, Technology\, and Human Values\, Design Issues\, Digital Creativity\, and Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). JafariNaimi received her PhD in Design from Carnegie Mellon University. She also holds an MS in Information Design and Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran\, Iran. \nAbhradeep Guha Thakurta is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Thakurta’s research is at the intersection of machine learning and data privacy. Primary research interest include designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms with strong analytical guarantees\, which are robust to errors in the data. In many instances\, Thakurta harnesses the privacy property of the algorithms to obtain robustness and utility guarantees. A combination of academic and industrial experience has allowed Thakurta to draw non-obvious insights at the intersection of theoretical analysis and practical deployment of privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms. \nCo-Sponsored by: THI Data and Democracy Initiative\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, and the Feminist Studies Department\, and the Science & Justice Research Center
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/algorithms-mobility-justice/
LOCATION:Engineering 2\, Room 599\, Engineering 2 Building @ UCSC\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It
DESCRIPTION:The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture\, Presented by the Humanities Institute\nThe internet as it exists might destroy our world. In the developed countries\, its arrival has corresponded to bizarre political dysfunction\, while in the developing world\, ethnic rivalries that had been waning have been re-ignited in the most grotesque fashion. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The internet was supposed to empower people and enrich culture and democracy. What went wrong was based on a simplistic\, nerdy philosophy. The solution can be discerned\, and it involves creating and strengthening societal structures that are in between giant tech platforms and individuals. \nEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nUnable to join us for the event? View the recording here: \n \nJaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It” from IHR on Vimeo. \nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum. \nData and Democracy: This event kicks off a year of programming on “Data and Democracy.” The Humanities Institute will be hosting numerous events and other activities around this theme. As our society navigates shifting definitions of fake news\, targeted ad programs\, and compromised voting systems\, it is essential that we work to understand the complex and often obscured relationship between data and democracy. During the 2018-2019 Academic Year\, The Humanities Institute will lead a community-wide conversation about this topic through a range of events focused on the ethics of social media\, online privacy\, big data\, and algorithmic bias. \nDirections and Parking\nThe UCSC Music Recital Hall is located at 402 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95064\nParking lot attendants will be on site to sell permits and direct guests to available parking in the Performing Arts parking lot #126. Click here for directions.\nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-3527.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/baskin-ethics-lecture-jaron-lanier/
LOCATION:Music Recital Hall
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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Meet Up
DESCRIPTION:Join the Digital Humanities campus community for a Fall Quarter Meet Up. This is an opportunity to meet digital scholarship practitioners across campus and connect as we start a new year. The Meet Up is informal: please invite colleagues interested in building a DH portfolio and learning more about digital scholarship. \nZac Zimmer\, Assistant Professor of Literature\, will present a short paper\, “Cryptography\, Subjectivity and Spyware: From PGP Source Code and Internals to Pegasus\,” to kick off a DH-focused conversation related to the 2018 – 2019 THI theme\, Data and Democracy.  \nRead Cyberwar for Sale beforehand and come prepared to discuss the issues \nThis brief intervention will use two examples from the world of secure communications to explore the intersection of global norms of privacy and local conceptions of political subjectivity. \nThe first example is a book published by Philip Zimmermann and MIT Press in 1995. That 900-page tome was a hard copy print out of the source code for his open source implementation of the public-key RSA cryptosystem. In the early 1990s\, Zimmermann was being prosecuted by the US Government for distributing his software. By publishing his source code as a book\, Zimmermann claimed free speech protections\, while resourceful users knew that by scanning the pages they’d be able to compile their own versions of the software. PGP has since gone through several iterations\, yet remains a global standard for email encryption. And yet it is not foolproof. In 2017\, The Citizen Lab reported an exploit used by the Mexican state. “Pegasus\,” produced by the Israeli cyberarms firm the NSO Group\, allowed Mexican authorities to surveil and target Mexican lawyers\, journalists\, activists\, and others. Pegasus uses social engineering and “spear-phising” attacks to compromise communications systems. There is no cryptographic solution to Pegasus. \nThrough tracing the trajectory from PGP to Pegasus\, I pose the following questions: Is there a work-around to surveillance society? Will Big Data recognize any other civil rights framework\, other than “privacy”? Is there a way to “transmediate” cryptographic protocols\, in the spirit of Zimmermann and MIT Press’ collaboration\, in order to protect against exploits like Pegasus? \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Digital Scholarship Commons
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/digital-humanities-meet-2/
LOCATION:Cowell Provost House\,  Cowell Provost House\, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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