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Social Sciences 2, Room 75
Understanding Conflict in South Sudan
Social Sciences 2, Room 75 Social Sciences 2 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS 2014-2015 Theme: GLOBAL ISLAM Winter Quarter Events Featuring: Noah Salomon, Assistant Professor of Religion, Carleton College Tuesday, February 10th Public Event "Understanding Conflict in South Sudan" 6:30-7:30 PM, Social Sciences 2, Room 075 Moderated by Mark Massoud, Assistant Professor of Politics and Legal Studies, UCSC Wednesday, February 11th Colloquium "When […]
Naftali Rothenberg: "Jewish Identity in Contemporary Israel: Between Separatism and Cohesion"
Social Sciences 2, Room 75 Social Sciences 2 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRabbi Professor Naftali Rothenberg is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (since 1994), where he is Jewish Culture and Identity chair and editor of Identities, Journal for Jewish Culture & Identity. He also serves as the Rabbi and spiritual leader of Har Adar. His main fields of research are: The wisdom […]
Mark A. Raider: "The Changing Image of the Israeli Hero in American Culture"
Social Sciences 2, Room 75 Social Sciences 2 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Jewish Studies presents: Mark A. Raider This talk surveys the long arc of the Zionist and Israeli hero as perceived in the American setting. Taking a page from scholars of semiotics and iconography, it pays close attention to a variety of texts, visual images, and cultural artifacts drawn from Zionist propaganda and recruitment […]
Nick Montfort: “Curveship: Interactive Narrating for Interactive Fiction”
Social Sciences 2, Room 75 Social Sciences 2 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCurveship is an interactive fiction (IF) development system that adds support for interactive narrating -- automatic narrative variation that is accomplished through text generation. For 30 years, IF development systems have done very well at allowing us to build and manipulate world models, which are then encountered by players using text-based interfaces. Curveship aims to […]