Events
Humanities 1, Room 210
PhD+ Workshop – Using Generative AI for Research in the Humanities
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis informal, practical workshop will survey how generative AI tools like GPT-4 and Claude can be used in humanistic research. Large Language Models (LLMs) such as these have a well-documented tendency to “hallucinate” information when prompted in certain ways. But if employed thoughtfully and with an awareness of their limitations, they represent a significant new tool for researchers in […]
Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to their first lunch meeting of the quarter scheduled for January 8th (Monday) at noon in HUM 210. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes six esteemed faculty members from various disciplines, graduate students […]
Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to their third lunch meeting scheduled for December 11th (Monday) at noon in HUM 210. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes six esteemed faculty members from various disciplines, graduate students representing politics, history, […]
Cláudio Bueno – what we couldn’t (…) alone
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe talk will reflect on ways of (thinking/caring/moving/fighting/feeling/imagining…) together. It will address our ability to invent forms of collective engagement and debate on complex socio-environmental issues. Conversations will be triggered by the artistic practices and public programs carried out by the artist and professor Cláudio Bueno, working collectively with social, ecological, and land-based movements, cultural […]
Netta Avineri – Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be?
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is pleased to present Netta Avineri, Ph.D. (Middlebury Institute of International Studies) “Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be.” Refreshments will be served. How are language and social justice interconnected? How can one cultivate a language and social justice praxis, integrating reflection, […]
Robert Nichols – The Indian Wars Have Never Ended
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn the 1960s and 70s, Red Power intellectuals and activists engaged in a remarkably ambitious wholesale rewriting of American Indian history. New works of popular and academic history challenged standard narratives of U.S. territorial expansion, with particular emphasis paid to major events of the nineteenth century ‘Indian Wars’, such as Sand Creek, Wounded Knee, and […]
Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to their second lunch meeting scheduled for November 6th (Monday) at noon in HUM 210. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes six esteemed faculty members from various disciplines, graduate students representing politics, history, […]
Israel/Palestine: Learn-In
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDeeply concerned about Israel/Palestine? Grappling with Hamas' attack on October 7 and Israel's current bombardment and invasion of Gaza, as well as the broader historical context for both? Wonder how we got here and how we might imagine a better future together? Come with questions and a desire to learn with and from others. All […]
Ya Zuo – Feeling the Universe: Phenomenology of Emotion in Premodern China
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWhat is an emotion? Are your feelings inside you, or somewhere out there in the world? In this talk, Ya Zuo introduces the phenomenology of emotion in premodern China. The Chinese theories offer an interesting understanding of affectivity which places emotions beyond the subject. Emotion is simultaneously a deep cosmic order exceeding the mundane world […]
Hafsa Kanjwal – Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCosponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies In this talk, Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal discusses her new book Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation. The book interrogates how Kashmir was made “integral” to India through a study of the decade long rule (1953-1963) of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad, the second Prime Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Drawing […]