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Bringing Scholarship to Life Through Comics

306 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles

The Wide Angle Series: Engaging Research in Public Humanities – Bringing Scholarship to Life Through Comics Hosted by Professor Barbara Fuchs, Associate Dean for Public Humanities How might comics help bring our work to a wider public? How might this form make our research more accessible to audiences both within the university and beyond? At our upcoming division-wide workshop, Professor Ignacio López-Calvo, Faculty Director of the Center for Humanities at UC Merced, will discuss the Bobcat Comics series, which pairs UC Merced professors with professional comic book artists to transform their scholarship into engaging and accessible comics. Come learn more...

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Generative AI and the Future of Judgment: A Symposium on Technology and the Humanities

UC Irvine and Zoom

Generative AI and the Future of Judgment: A Symposium on Technology and the Humanities will focus on generative AI/machine learning from a humanities perspective, particularly on the work of computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum and philosopher Hannah Arendt. Weizenbaum was a computer scientist who created the early chatbot ELIZA, after which the famous “ELIZA effect” is named. ELIZA and its users’ relationships to it presciently predicted humans’ overidentification with chatbot interlocutors. Weizenbaum also felt strongly about the role of the humanities in understanding computer science and technology: " have a greater familiarity with an ambiguous, intractable, sometimes unreachable world that won't...

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