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  • How to Co-Create an AI Policy in Your Classroom

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    It is well known that students are using AI, that some uses undermine their learning, and that bans are difficult and labor-intensive to enforce. To confront this, Lauren Lyons asked students in her Ethics and Technology course to collaboratively build their own AI policy. In this session, Lyons will describe how she structured the activity, […]

  • Kate Schatz – Where the Girls Were Talk & Reading

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Join UCSC alum Kate Schatz, bestselling author of the Rad Women series, for a reading from her new novel Where the Girls Were and a Q & A on writing, creativity, and growing up amid political and cultural change. Blending sharp cultural insight with emotional depth, Schatz’s work explores how young women navigate creativity, power, […]

  • Thiago Mota – In Search of Protection: Islam, Crocodiles, and Local Experiences of a Global Religion in Early Modern West Africa

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    This talk proposes a new reading of Early Modern European sources for African history in light of Islamic African written records and oral traditions. It examines how Islam interacted with local religions and cultural practices in order to become meaningful and suitable for West African communities. Focusing on the need for protection against crocodile attacks […]

  • Writing Hangout with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    If we take a moment to examine our lives, we can find meaningful, even exciting connections between our mundane moments and the society we live in. In this workshop, we will write together to explore how we can find the words we need to create the communities we would like to be. All are welcome. […]

  • Tsering Wangmo Dhompa – Kyi-dug, Tibetan Welfare Groups: Sharing Ups and Downs

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 more

    As many as 80,000 Tibetans fled to India and Nepal in 1959 following the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The establishment of a Tibetan government in exile helped foster a sense of belonging, but it was also through mutual aid groups, such as the kyi-dug, that Tibetan refugees took care of one another. The word kyi-dug: […]

  • Work – in – Progress with Geoffrey C. Bowker

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Join SJRC scholars for an open discussion of works-in-progress! This is a wonderful chance to engage with one another’s ideas, and support our own internal work. At this session, we will hear from Geoffrey Bowker, Emeritus Professor in Irvine and Science & Justice Advisor about works-in-progress and ongoing work on the death of infrastructure, AI, […]

  • Hillary Angelo – Climate Change as Large-Scale Social Transformation

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    It is a common (aspirational) refrain that climate change “changes everything,” and equally common to note that climate-related transitions seem to be changing very little at all. What climate-related changes are happening now? And how might we grasp emergent trajectories while we’re in the midst of these transitions? With a substantive focus on the city-hinterland […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Curious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to […]

  • Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    This seminar explores how pre-modern debates over body and soulshaped political and eschatological thought in the Mediterranean. Each panel brings Jewish, Christian, and Islamic voices into dialogue, with Dante Alighieri's oeuvre as a recurring point of comparison. Our aim is to situate questions of embodiment, psychology, soteriology, and collective destiny in light of their historical […]

  • Josen Masangkay Diaz – Population Crisis and the Reproductive Archive

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    This talk focuses on the development of a population science in the decade that preceded the Ferdinand Marcos regime in the Philippines and throughout the Marcos dictatorship. The regime's management of reproductive health, in particular, illustrates the construction of new technologies of measurement and containment. The talk focuses on readings of "family planning" archives that […]

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