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  • CANCELLED – Nora Khan – Discernment: Unruly Images, Synthetic Media, and Evolving Critical Impulse

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

    What can criticism offer us in a world of unruly generative images and synthetic media? What precise language might we use for machine learning’s impact, or the wake of an algorithm? How must our practices of discernment and the critical impulse evolve in response to computational developments, to perhaps be more resilient and responsive? This […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships

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

    Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities  Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal, the proper tone and form, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research […]

  • Ajay Skaria – The Part of the Indigenous: Adivasis and the Subaltern Intimation of Freedom

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

    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 […]

  • Valentin Lopez – Amah Mutsun Tribal History & Importance of Traditional Land Stewardship

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

    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." Valentin 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 […]

  • 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 […]

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