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SUMMARY:Understanding Conflict in South Sudan
DESCRIPTION:CENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS\n2014-2015 Theme: GLOBAL ISLAM\nWinter Quarter Events\nFeaturing: Noah Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Religion\, Carleton College \n\n  \nTuesday\, February 10th\nPublic Event\n“Understanding Conflict in South Sudan”\n6:30-7:30 PM\,\nSocial Sciences 2\, Room 075\nModerated by Mark Massoud\, Assistant Professor of Politics and Legal Studies\, UCSC \nWednesday\, February 11th\nColloquium\n“When the State is Everywhere: Rethinking the Islamic Public Sphere”\n3:30-5:00 PM\, Humanities 1\, Room 202 \nThursday\, February 12th\nManuscript Reading Seminar*\nSelections from “The People of Sudan Love You\, Oh Messenger of God: An Ethnography of the Islamic State”\n10:00 AM-12:00 PM\, Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\n*To receive readings\, please email sjetha@ucsc.edu
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/understanding-conflict-in-south-sudan-2/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 75\, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Naftali Rothenberg: "Jewish Identity in Contemporary Israel: Between Separatism and Cohesion"
DESCRIPTION:Rabbi 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. \nHis main fields of research are: The wisdom of love; Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Halakha; Democratic education. \nHe has published numerous articles and 12 books. His most recent books are: Unity within Diversity: A Common Core Curriculum for Israeli Schoolchildren\, (With Libat Avishay)\, Jerusalem 2012\, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Wisdom by the week – the Weekly Torah Portion as an Inspiration for Thought and Creativity\, New York 2012: Yeshiva University Press and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Values and Citizens – Civic Democratic Education\, Jerusalem 2011: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; Rabbi in the New World: The Influence of Rabbi J. B. Soloveitchik on Culture\, Education and Jewish Thought\, (with Avinoam Rosenak) Jerusalem 2011: Magnes Hebrew University Press and the VLJI; and The Wisdom of Love—Man\, Woman & God in Jewish Canonical Literature\, Boston 2009: Academic Studies Press. \nNaftali Rothenberg is the 2011 laureate of the Liebhaber Prize for the encouragement of religious tolerance in Israel.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/naftali-rothenberg-2/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 75\, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mark A. Raider: "The Changing Image of the Israeli Hero in American Culture"
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Jewish Studies presents: Mark A. Raider \nThis 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 literature\, photographs and films\, poetry\, novels\, and memoirs\, art\, music\, and dance\, textbooks\, children’s literature and memoirs\, etc. By examining how the trope of the Zionist and Israeli hero changed over time\, I seek to enhance our understanding of the strong bond between the Jews of America and Israel as well as help to explain the ideational linkages that inform the contemporary U.S.-Israel relationship.\nMark A. Raider is Professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of History at the University of Cincinnati and a Research Associate in the University’s Center for Studies in Jewish Education and Culture. He is also Visiting Professor of American Jewish History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. \nDr. Raider’s scholarly articles have appeared in The American Jewish Archives Journal\, American Jewish History\, Jewish Social Studies\, The Journal of Israeli History\, and elsewhere. In 2010 he was awarded the American Jewish Historical Society’s Leo Wasserman prize for the best article published in American Jewish History (“The Aristocrat and the Democrat: Louis Marshall\, Stephen S. Wise and the Challenge of American Jewish Leadership”). \nHis books include The Emergence of American Zionism (1998); Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism\, with Jonathan D. Sarna and Ronald W. Zweig (1997); The Plough Woman: Records of the Pioneer Women of Palestine–A Critical Edition\, with Miriam B. Raider-Roth (2002); American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise\, with Shulamit Reinharz (2005); and Nahum Goldmann: Statesman Without a State (2009). He also wrote a book-length history of the American Jewish experience for the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica (vol. 20\, 2006). \nHe most recently completed an edited and annotated anthology titled Free Associations: Selected Writings of Hayim Greenberg–A Critical Edition\, which is under advance contract with the University of Alabama Press. An excerpt from this volume appeared in the summer 2013 issue of The Jewish Review of Books. He is now working on a full-scale biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise\, one of the twentieth century’s most important and controversial American Jewish and Zionist leaders. \nDr. Raider teaches courses on U.S. history\, the American Jewish experience\, modern Jewish history\, and Zionism and Israel. He is married to Dr. Miriam B. Raider-Roth and they have three children–Jonah\, Emma\, and Talia.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mark-raider-2/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 75\, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nick Montfort: "Curveship: Interactive Narrating for Interactive Fiction"
DESCRIPTION:Curveship 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 do for the *narrative discourse* what IF has already done for the underlying story world\, to allow us to change important things about the narrating as easily as we can move a simulated object from one room to another. The system aims to facilitate research and teaching in AI (and expressive AI particularly)\, computational creativity\, creative NLP\, and narrative theory\, while also allowing allow author/programmers to create new sorts of games with new literary aspects. In my talk\, I will demo the system and\, in theoretical and practical terms\, discuss: \n – Curveship’s representation of actions.\n – Writing string-with-slots templates for description and representation.\n – Generating text using only high-level narrative parameters.\n – Developing different types of “spin” — specifications for narrating. \nCurveship has been tested and used in research by a small group; it is\nbeing prepared for a public release early in 2011. \nNick Montfort writes computational and constrained poetry\, develops computer games\, and is a critic\, theorist\, and scholar of computational art and media. He is associate professor of digital media in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, and is now serving as president of the Electronic Literature Organization. He earned a Ph.D. in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania.  \nHe collaborated on the blog Grand Text Auto\, the sticker novel Implementation\, and 2002: A Palindrome Story. He writes poems\, text generators\, and interactive fiction. Montfort has co-edited The Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1 (ELO\, 2006) and The New Media Reader (MIT Press\, 2003) and written Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press\, 2003)\, Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System\, (with Ian Bogost\, MIT Press\, 2009) and Riddle & Bind (Spineless Books\, 2010).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nick-montfort-curveship-interactive-narrating-for-interactive-fiction-2/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 2\, Room 75\, Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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