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  • CANCELLED – 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

    The Humanities Institute Research cluster, Humanities in the Age of AI, presents "When Human-Centered AI Encountered Digital Humanities: A Dialogue between Magy Seif El-Nasr and Minghui Hu." 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 […]

  • Nick Kawa and Alisa Keesey – Microbes at Work: The Vital Role of Bacteria and other Microbial Life in Sanitation Systems in the US and Uganda

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

    Wastewater treatment operators in the American Midwest wryly describe their job as “bacteria farming,” but they also insist that microbes are the ones who “do all the work” at treatment plants. Meanwhile, slum activists in Uganda suggest that they “work with microbes” to provide essential sanitation services where the state has failed to provide safe […]

  • Akum Longchari – Reimagining Humanization, Just Peace, and Healing through an Indigenous Lens

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

    Join the Center for South Asian Studies for a presentation by Aküm Longchari, the Center’s Scholar in Residence. From an Indigenous perspective, peace processes in the first quarter of the 21st century have been focused on State-building, where questions of justice and peace remained a matter of privilege and power rather than a right of […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Academic Book Publishing with the University of Minnesota Press

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

    Join Jason Weidemann, an Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press, for a "publishing bootcamp" workshop, geared toward graduate students, post docs, and early career scholars working on their first books. Together we’ll discuss information on the editorial process - how to talk to editors, revising the dissertation, and proposals. Time will be left […]

  • Jaco de Swart – Dark Matter, Dirty Xenon, and the Limits of Laboratory Experiments

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

    The History of Consciousness earthecologies x technoscience conversations and the Science and Justice Research Center are pleased to invite you to the following talk entitled Dark Matter, Dirty Xenon, and the Limits of Laboratory Experiments with Jaco de Swart (MIT, Visiting Scholar at Science and Justice Research Center). This event will take place May 7th […]

  • Deirdre de la Cruz – “It’s Your Curse,” and Other Lessons in Repairing Historical Harm

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

    The University of Michigan possesses extensive archival, photographic, archaeological and natural history collections from the Philippines, many of which were built during the American colonial period from objects, images, and ancestors taken without the consent of local source communities. This talk introduces a multi-year, collaborative effort by Michigan faculty, curators, collection managers, students, and community […]

  • TechnoScience Improv

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

    This roundtable improv (12.15-2.00pm) brings together ten UCSC scholars working on social, historical, and cultural studies of science, technology and medicine. The event will be structured around eight open, improvised conversations, each beginning with a question from a different panelist exploring emerging practices, speculative transformations, and critical imaginings of technoscience, health and ecology. Participants include: […]

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