Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Steering Large Language Models by Human Preferences Large language models (LLMs) trained on massive datasets exhibit remarkable abilities, but at the same time, these models can inadvertently generate misinformation and harmful outputs. This concern underscores …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Hollywood Pressbooks and the Vectors of Publicity From the 1910s through the 1980s, Hollywood studios promoted their productions through the creation and dissemination of pressbooks—bound pamphlets containing publicity materials, advertising layouts, accessories for sale, and …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
White Innocents: Racial Violence, Law Enforcement, and Culpability in U.S. History Racist violence by white Americans was central to the making of the modern United States. And yet, the institutions charged with protecting people from …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Disruptive Ecologies: African Literature and the Environmental Humanities This Friday Lunch talk will examine some of the ways in which African literatures have interacted with, and even prefigured, trends and turns in ecocriticism specifically and …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Reading Centers and Margins in Narratives of Fugitivity How do we read representations of subaltern, enslaved, or minoritized lives that have been conscripted or distorted by those who do not live under the constant threat …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Defining Dispossession: Anticolonial Claims-making and the Transformation of Modern International Law This talk identifies a new origin story for key features of contemporary international law in early twentieth century attempts to shield the U.S. government …
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Adam Stern: Assistant Professor, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ AND THE CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES, UW-MADISON Beginning with Hannah Arendt’s well-known distinction between medieval, religious Jew-hatred and modern, secular antisemitism, this talk reconsiders contemporary debates concerning the periodization of …
