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Presented by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz and the Center for Jewish Studies: Antisemitism and the Internet: Old Hatred and New May 9 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Doors open at 6:30pm | Program begins at 7:00pm Computer History Museum | 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043 It has …
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James Loeffler visited UC Santa Cruz to deliver the annual Diller Lecture, connecting the Center for Jewish Studies to the theme of Data and Democracy. See photos from the event and read more about Loeffler argument for an urgent engagement with global justice and democracy > James Loeffler, “The Right to Be Heard – Jews, …
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Congratulations to this year’s Diarna Fellows! Diarna fellows use digital mapping and database technologies to virtually preserve and ensure unimpeded access to endangered Jewish heritage sites across North Africa and the Middle East. Michelle Abraamian, Senior Major/Concentration: History, Americas and Africa Most Excited to: learn about digital mapping technologies and historical discoveries through geography relevant to modern issues. Madeline …
Assistant professor of history and Jewish Studies Alma Rachel Heckman has been appointed as the new holder of the Neufeld-Levin Holocaust Endowed Chair at UC Santa Cruz. The interdisciplinary endowed chair was established in 1995 by Anne Neufeld-Levin, a former president of the UC Santa Cruz Foundation Board of Trustees, to support teaching, research, and …
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Rachel Deblinger and Paul Jaskot (Duke) lead a cohort of 20 university faculty at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The 2017 Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for University Faculty is titled Visualizing the Holocaust and the Use of Digital Humanities in the Classroom. Mapping, data visualization, and text analysis invite new modes of thinking about …
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