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A Conversation with Bay Area Journalist Joe Eskenazi

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

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. Joe Eskenazi is […]

Katie Shilton – Trust, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI

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

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." As the discourse on responsible and trustworthy AI intensifies, Participatory AI (PAI) presents a compelling approach to the democratic […]

La Marr Jurelle Bruce – COME OUTSIDE: Black Love, Open Sky

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

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 […]

Armen Khatchatourov – Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems

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

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." If you are unable to make it in person, you can attend virtually via Zoom. The rapid proliferation of AI-based systems has transformed how we understand and relate to […]

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: “Primary Wonder: Spirituality, Art, and Nature” with Douglas E. Christie

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

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. "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 […]

Dixita Deka–After Insurgency: Farming Journeys and Rehabilitation in Northeast India

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

Since India’s independence in 1947, militarization, the extractive regime, and capital have significantly transformed the agrarian landscape in Northeast India. This talk is based on ongoing ethnographic work in Assam among the former insurgents of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) who have taken up farming. Reclaiming the fields and the commons has been […]

Zhongmin Chen — “Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language”

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

The Fusional Linguistics Initiative presents, Zhongmin Chen (Fudan University) speaking on "Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language: the 'One-center Multi-Layer' Development Hypothesis." This talk will take place Monday, February 3 at 1:20pm in Humanities 1 - Room 210. Language is humanity's most vital tool for communication, making the study of its evolution inherently linked […]

Geographies of Dissent: A Trans/Feminist Dialogue

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

Feminist Studies presents Geographies of Dissent — a dialogue centering trans/feminist vernaculars of the geopolitical, and how current histories of occupation and authoritarianism have impacted feminist projects of dissent. The first 20 students who register for the full day will receive their choice of one of the speakers' books. 11am | Violent Intimacies: The Trans […]

Sophia Azeb – Mapping the “Arab” in Pan-African Political Culture

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

Amid the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine and the UAE-backed genocide in Sudan, the constellation of transnational and multiracial movement solidarities forged throughout the myriad capitalist and colonialist crises of the 21st century continue to reckon with the precarity of their uneven legibility across various regional, continental, and global contexts. Expanding on the titular catalogue […]

Dan Zimmer – From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence, Ecological Collapse, and a New Polarity in Politics

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

The first guest of the Winter '25 lineup of the HistCon Speaker Series will be joining us next week! Dan Zimmer will give his talk “From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence, Ecological Collapse, and a New Polarity in Politics” on Monday, January 27th, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 210. If you are unable to make […]