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    • Humanities Decanted: Josephine Metcalf

    McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Join us for a dialogue with Josephine Metcalf (University of Hull) and Ben Olguín (English), who will be speaking with Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval (Chicana and Chicano Studies) about their new co-edited volume, The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez: In the Long Run. Luis Rodríguez is a prominent Latinx poet, memoirist and activist renowned for his candid visceral accounts of urban working-class life that includes youth gang violence, incarceration and drug abuse, gruelling factory ...

    Research Focus Group Talk: Re-negotiating the Algorithmic Contract: The Need for a Politics of Potentiality

    3605 South Hall Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Jose Marichal is a professor of political science at California Lutheran University specializing in studying the role that algorithms and AI play in restructuring social and political institutions. His book entitled You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem was published in 2025 with Bristol University Press (UK). The book explores the unwritten social contract we have with the algorithms that shape what we see, hear and think. His next project (expected 2026) is entitled Machine Liberalism: ...

    Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program Capstone Presentations

    McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Join us to celebrate our 2026 program graduates! Katherina Gontaryuk (Philosophy) Olivia Henderson (English) Martina Mattei (Comparative Literature) Claudia Mendoza Chavez (Anthropology) Russell Nylen (Anthropology) Edward Reyes (Chicana/o Studies) Eunwoo Yoo (Theater and Dance) Each Fellow will present on their training, work, and identity as a public humanist. Hear about their projects and learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program! Audience Q&A and a reception will follow.