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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop with ARI — Grants and Fellowship Funding
DESCRIPTION:Arts Research Institute (ARI) workshop with Holly Unruh (ARI Executive Director) and Hannah Jasper (ARI Research Development Analyst) on finding funding to support your work\, and proposal writing 101. This workshop is geared toward graduate students and early career faculty\, and is appropriate for anyone wanting to hone their grant-seeking skills. \n**Please rsvp to Hannah (hannahjasper@ucsc.edu) for the zoom link. \n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of the PhD+ Workshop Series. Learn more about the Arts Research Institute on the ARI website.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-with-ari-grants-and-fellowship-funding/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Allen Riley - Critical Play with Large Language Models
DESCRIPTION:The idea of keeping the “human in the loop” is offered as a way to make AI “human-centered” and to safeguard against AI mischief\, but how does being in a loop with AI shape our communication with each other? Over the last 20 years\, Allen Riley created dozens of interactive artworks that explore mediated communication with youth and adults in venues including performance spaces\, museums\, festivals\, and schools. He discusses three recent projects that explore how large language models affect interpersonal communication. \nThe first project is an imaginative storytelling game called Popcorn Movie in which players are constantly interrupted by LLM summaries as they attempt to co-create a story together. Next\, he adapts the game into a satirical live performance titled Human Feedback in which an LLM facilitates a panel discussion among people who do not know what they are talking about. In a third iteration titled The Last Chat\, Riley reimagines the LLM as a social operating system. \nLanguage models are not grounded in the practical circumstances in which we use them. As a result\, they drift and hallucinate. When players hear an AI summary\, its semantic noise becomes part of their shared reality\, and the story spirals in on itself. Players navigate changing and often humorous conditions of coherence and confusion. He argues that this is an essential literacy for critical engagement with LLMs. Allen Riley proposes an alternative way of thinking and playing with AI as a feedback channel for socially interactive creative projects that critically play with AI. \nAllen Riley is an artist and curator who specializes in socially interactive media. He designs hands-on learning pedagogy at Beam Center and builds arcade games as a form of public art with Arcade Commons. Riley’s artwork has been presented at the Smithsonian American Art Museum\, Slamdance Film Festival\, and the Museum of the Moving Image. He received an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics and is a PhD candidate in Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz. \n\nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute’s ± AI Initiative
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-play-with-large-language-models/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Gallant - Law For a More-Than-Human World
DESCRIPTION:Jackie Gallant will join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab to discuss her work with the More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Program\, an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to the advancement of rights and well-being for humans\, nonhumans\, and the web of life that sustains us all. The Program has two primary goals. First\, using the tools of the law\, MOTH offers answers to key questions raised by a host of disciplines concerning human relationships—institutional\, political\, legal\, and cultural—with the natural world\, including in the context of pressing ecological challenges. These questions include: \nHow can the sciences—from mycology to botany and ecology to marine biology—be translated into and transform the law to better protect life on Earth? How can Indigenous and Western sciences join forces to create and transform legal protections for the more-than-human world? \nHow can we strengthen the implementation of the growing number of rights of nature rulings and laws to ensure they have material impact? \nHow do we give back to nature for its contributions to human activities and endeavors? \nHow can we bridge concern for humans and nonhumans as we ratchet up decisive actions to address the climate and biodiversity emergencies? How can a holistic approach to these and other ecological challenges contribute to reducing societal polarization as well as individual and species loneliness? \nHow can we best use technology – and guard against its excesses – to better understand and relate to nonhumans and nature more generally? \nThe answers—developed through MOTH actions—aim to protect the living world and its many beings while achieving more-than-human rights in practice. \nSecond\, MOTH nurtures and consolidates the field of practice and inquiry dedicated to more-than-human rights and related topics. In particular\, MOTH builds bridges between disciplines and nurtures intercultural and interdisciplinary collaboration and ideation. \nThe MOTH Program is an initiative of Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA)\, a program based at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law. \nJackie Gallant is a lawyer and the Director of Programs at the NYU MOTH Program. At MOTH\, she leads legal actions and programs which address major ecological challenges\, like climate change\, and pressing questions concerning legal\, political\, and cultural relationships with the more-than-human world. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/law-for-a-more-than-human-world-a-conversation-with-jacqueline-gallant/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:2026 Graduate Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:This event celebrates and highlights the work of UCSC graduate students in all academic divisions. Any enrolled graduate student is welcome to present either a poster\, talk\, or mixed media presentation. (Recipients of qualifying fellowships\, ARCS\, PPPF\, Dissertation Quarter\, etc. are required to participate.) The event is free and open to the public. For more information and to see past winners: 2026 Graduate Research Symposium
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2026-graduate-research-symposium/
LOCATION:UCSC
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nLiving Writers Spring 2026: Our Nourishment\, US features poets\, writers\, critics\, visual and performance artists\, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of who we all are within marginalized yet expansively powerful fields of racialized and multiply lived complex and diverse identities\, please come as we convene in spirit\, deep celebration\, and resource with one another. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-reading-8/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ruth Ozeki - The Typing Lady
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki (A Tale for the Time Being)\, who will share her spellbinding story collection The Typing Lady: And Other Fictions about the lives we almost lived\, the people we can’t quite forget\, and the stories that shape us long after the last page is turned. Ozeki will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler at this event. \nIn this spirited and emotionally resonant collection\, award-winning novelist Ruth Ozeki turns her singular gaze to the short story\, exploring childhood ambition\, youthful desire\, midlife reinvention\, and the unsparing clarity of old age. With her distinctive blend of wit\, warmth\, and deep humanity\, she brings us eleven richly imagined stories of characters standing at life’s thresholds—grappling with faded ideals\, evolving identities\, and the inevitable compromises that shape a life. \n \nRuth Ozeki is a novelist\, filmmaker\, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the bestselling author of four novels: The Book of Form and Emptiness\, winner of the UK’s 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction; My Year of Meats; All Over Creation; and A Tale for the Time Being\, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir\, The Face: A Time Code\, and the documentary film Halving the Bones. A longtime Buddhist practitioner\, Ruth is affiliated with the Brooklyn Zen Center and the Everyday Zen Foundation. She is a professor emerita of English language and literature at Smith College\, where she was the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Ruth Ozeki \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ruth-ozeki-the-typing-lady/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Homer's The Odyssey Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Homer’s Odyssey is becoming a major motion picture. Whether you like movies or not\, this is a great excuse to read this millennia-old story about a salty war hero who just wants to go home. Join us on June 24th and July 1 to discuss the Odyssey with UC Santa Cruz Ancient Studies faculty Anne Kreps and Martin Devecka where we’ll discuss the wild world of Odysseus and what this epic can teach us about talking to strangers\, lying\, and picking a good disguise. This event is co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz. \n \nPlease register above to attend one or more of the webinars! \nThis program will be using the The Odyssey\, Emily Wilson 2018 edition and will cover Books 1-12 on June 24th and Books 13-24 on July 1st. \nMartin Devecka\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & Literature \nAs a cultural historian\, Devecka writes on topics in ancient literature and society that range from robots to ruins. He is currently finishing a book manuscript on animal citizenship in the Roman Empire. \nAnne Kreps\, Associate Professor\, Ancient Studies & History \nAs a historian of the ancient Near East\, Kreps studies heresies\, Gnosticism\, and the politics of sacred texts. Her current work examines the Dead Sea Scrolls within New Religious Movements in the United States. \nImages: \n\nOdysseus and Circe (book 10): top-two men who have been turned into animals already\, Odysseus with sword\, Circe with headscarf\nOdysseus and Elphanor in underworld (book 11): Odysseus sits with chin on hand\, naked Elpanor (the crew member who dies in book 1) rises naked from the earth. The God Hermes stands behind Odysseus\nOdysseus draws the bow (book 21)\nOdysseus escapes the Cyclops (book 9): He ties himself to the belly of a goat.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/homers-the-odyssey-reading-group/
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