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  • 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 […]

  • When Human-Centered AI Encountered Digital Humanities: A Dialogue between Magy Seif El-Nasr and Minghui Hu

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

    What happens when the ethical and interpretive frameworks of the humanities meet the algorithmic and interactive architectures of artificial intelligence? This dialogue brings together two leading voices from distinct yet converging fields: Magy Seif El-Nasr, a pioneer in human-centered AI, game analytics, and interactive narrative design, and Minghui Hu, a historian and digital humanist, explores […]

  • Humanities Grad School 101

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

    Are you curious about graduate school in the humanities? Join this Humanities Grad School 101 session, where we’ll hear from Associate Dean of Research Pranav Anand and stellar UCSC  graduate students in History, Linguistics, Literature, and Philosophy. We’ll discuss important considerations for deciding to pursue graduate school and what to look for in an academic program and advisor. […]

  • Reading the Conjuncture with Dimitris Papadopoulos, Jim Clifford, Camilla Hawthorne, Gail Hershatter, Laurie Palmer, and Vanita Seth

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

    Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience What a vital occasion it would be to receive intellectual gifts that enable us to better grasp our current socio-ecological moment, especially as many of us feel short of interpretations. We are inspired by Stuart Hall's conjunctural thinking, as we face a situation where intensive and […]

  • ± AI Initiative Meeting

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

    Join us for a kick-off meeting about The Humanities Institute's new ± AI Initiative. Learn about THI's vision and funding opportunities and connect with colleagues who have overlapping interests in humanities and artificial intelligence. Bring your research ideas, projects, dreams, and plans to the discussion as we look at ways to further advance humanistic work […]

  • Jennifer Mogannam – Palestinian-Lebanese Revolution-Making in Civil War Lebanon

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

    This talk offers a framework for understanding the entangled fate of Palestinian and Lebanese liberation by situating the 1970s Palestinian revolution and Lebanese Civil War opposition front through a shared narrative. This talk will show how these two efforts not only organized jointly, but how their aspirations were shared and impactful of the social landscape […]

  • Navyug Gill – Labor History and the Accumulation of Difference in Colonial Panjab

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

    Within the British empire, Panjab has long been regarded as the quintessential agrarian province inhabited by a diligent, prosperous and “martial race” of peasants. Against such essentialist depictions, I explore the landowning peasant and landless laborer as novel subjects forged in the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Company […]

  • Sociality, Science, and Surveillance: Plantations in the 21st Century

    Sociality, Science, and Surveillance: Plantations in the 21st Century

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

    The Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in partnership with Santa Clara University, invites you to a two-day academic workshop exploring the effects and imprints of the plantation complex on life and land in South Asia and beyond. South Asia has had a long, complicated history with plantations. […]

  • María Puig de la Bellacasa – Inheriting the Burdens of Human–Soil Belonging

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

    Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience This talk offers a speculative reading of practices that reclaim and reimagine human–soil relations within the legacies of anthropocentric, productionist, and colonial ecologies. I explore how soils come to epitomize planet Earth, life, death and memory, as well as the fraught significance of writing alternative stories […]

  • Humanities Division Experiential Learning Info Session

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

    Join us for an info session with Kylie Rachwalski, Assistant Director of Experiential Learning in the UCSC Humanities Division to learn more about Humanities EXCEL and EXPLORE Programs for humanities undergraduate students. Humanities EXCEL is a paid internship program for Humanities majors and minors, connecting you with community organizations where you’ll gain hands-on experience, mentorship, and real-world skills. […]

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