April 28 – May 2 / Zoom, with in-person coffee meetups and a closing reception on campus. How are you using AI to enhance work, learning, teaching, research or community well-being at UC Santa Barbara? We invite all community members to submit your idea for a spotlight presentation or digital poster focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
Indigenous Futures in Higher Education When: Friday – Sunday, February 21-23, 2025 Where: University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), McCune Conference Room (6020 HSSB) https://sites.google.com/view/2025aiicsymposium Keynote Speakers: AMANDA TACHINE, Assistant Professor in Educational Studies at the University of Oregon; Author of NativePresence and Sovereignty in College CUTCHA RISLING-BALDY, Associate Professor of Native American Studies at Cal Poly…
Tuesday, February 4, 4:00pm Event Location: UCSB Library, Pacific View Room RSVP Here UCSB Library is pleased to present Haewon Jeong (Electrical and Computer Engineering) in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series for Winter 2025. In her talk “Ethical AI: Serving Humanity or Falling Short?”, Jeong will explore the ethical considerations surrounding the development and deployment of AI technologies,…
AI’s capabilities to create visual art, music, stories, and videos are improving exponentially. AI can teach innovative new strategies, unknown to humans, in games such as chess or Go and promises to revolutionize human problem-solving. These advances motivate important questions relating to AI and Human Creativity. Join us at the 2024 Mellichamp Mind and Machine…
Professor Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie has received a Guggenheim Foundation award for a book project titled The Curator as Culture Broker: Representing Africa in Global Contemporary Art. The book uses historiographical, art historical and social network analysis to interrogate how African artists and artworks are represented in the discourse of global contemporary art.
UCSB Center for Black Studies Research presents: Associate Professor Roberto Strongman“Black Digital Devotions: Ethno-Religious Transnationalism and Data Gathering in the Era of Pandemic Travel Restrictions”Tuesday, April 20, 2:00 PM This talk explores the creation of a virtual devotional space for the Black Christ of Portobelo that would enable an alternative continuation of the pilgrimages that…