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SUMMARY:Study of Religion: Spring Snack Social
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Michael Schur
DESCRIPTION:Michael Schur is a television producer\, writer\, actor and author of How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Questions. With Pamela Hieronymi\, Professor at UCLA Department of Philosophy\, this conversation with explore the role of religion in contemplating moral and ethical decision-making. \nHOW TO BE PERFECT: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question sets out to do for moral philosophy what A Brief History of Time did for astrophysics. (But with jokes!) And by the time the book is done\, the reader will know exactly how to act in every conceivable situation\, so as to produce a verifiably maximal amount of moral good. He will be perfect\, and all his friends will be jealous. OK\, not quite. Instead\, the reader will gain fresh\, funny\, inspiring wisdom on the toughest issues we face every day. The hope is that – in a world of ever-increasing moral stakes and intense disagreement – HOW TO BE PERFECT will provide a foundation for all of us to consider our behavior and ponder how we can do better and be better to one another. \n  \nRSVP at https://eventsrsvp.ucla.edu/MichaelSchur/logon.aspx?NoID=Y \n\nMichael Schur is a television writer and producer who has worked on shows like The Office\, Master of None\, The Comeback and Hacks\, and created or co-created Parks and Recreation\, Brooklyn 99\, The Good Place and Rutherford Falls. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jennifer\, and their two kids\, William and Ivy. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/a-conversation-with-michael-schur/
LOCATION:314 Royce Hall
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SUMMARY:Do Robots Have Souls? Intelligent Machines\, Digital Humans\, and the Future of Technology 
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Sylvester A. Johnson interprets the work of Ibn Rushd (“Averroës”)\, the twelfth-century Islamic scholar of Andalusia who achieved renown as the ‘father’ of secularism\, in order to elucidate Ibn Rushd’s theory of the intellect as a power of the soul. Johnson leverages Rushd’s distinction between sensing and knowing in order to examine contemporary\, sensory-driven AI technology (particularly brain-computer-interface architectures) as a uniquely generative problem of interest for humanists and technical experts alike. Of central importance is the sensation of pain\, as it constitutes a phenomenon of embodiment\, a category of human experience\, and a political problem. \n  \n  \nSylvester A. Johnson is Assistant Vice Provost for the Humanities and Executive Director of the “Tech for Humanity” initiative advancing human-centered approaches to technology at Virginia Tech. He is the founding director of Virginia Tech’s Center for Humanities\, which is supporting human-centered research and humanistic approaches to the guidance of technology. Sylvester’s research has examined religion\, race\, and empire in the Atlantic world; religion and sexuality; national security practices; and the impact of intelligent machines and human enhancement on human identity and race. He is a Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture and a design-team affiliate faculty member in Virginia Tech’s socio-technical\, transdisciplinary Calhoun Discovery Program. In addition to co-facilitating a national working group on religion and US empire\, he co-leads a project at Virginia Tech\, supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, to develop ethically designed\, public-interest Artificial Intelligence that can benefit an innovation-driven society. \nSylvester is the author of The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity (Palgrave 2004)\, a study of race and religious hatred that won the American Academy of Religion’s Best First Book award; and African American Religions\, 1500-2000 (Cambridge 2015)\, an award-winning interpretation of five centuries of democracy\, colonialism\, and freedom in the Atlantic world. Johnson has also co-edited The FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security Before and After 9/11 (University of California 2017) and Religion and US Empire (appearing from NYU Press in 2022). He is a founding co-editor of the Journal of Africana Religions. Sylvester is writing a book on human identity in an age of intelligent machines and human-machine symbiosis. \nHe currently leads “Future Humans\, Human Futures” at Virginia Tech\, a series of research institutes and symposia funded by the Henry Luce foundation that focus on technology\, ethics\, and religion. He is also directing the creation of a university-wide “Tech for Humanity” undergraduate minor\, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, to prepare future talent at the intersection of humanities\, social justice\, and technology. \n  \n[gravityform id=”123″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/do-robots-have-souls-intelligent-machines-digital-humans-and-the-future-of-technology/
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SUMMARY:Song of Songs\, Time after Time
DESCRIPTION:The Song of Songs has been subject to numerous and varying interpretive approaches since its emergence. Drawing from her recently published book\, Perils of Wisdom: The Scriptural Solomon in Jewish Tradition\, Dr. Keiter will focus on varying Jewish interpretive strategies toward the Song\, highlighting the development of Jewish biblical exegesis and its impact on the King Solomon legend in Jewish thought. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies and its Bible and the Ancient World Seminar Series \n  \nDr. Sheila Keiter is a Near Eastern Languages and Cultures alumna and former Teaching Fellow in the UCLA English Department. She is currently an instructor at Shalhevet High School and a Regular Contributor for the “Table for Five” Torah panel column in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal. Keiter recently published\, Perils of Wisdom: The Scriptural Solomon in Jewish Tradition (2021). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n[gravityform id=”124″ title=”false” description=”false”]
URL:https://religion.ucla.edu/event/song-of-songs-time-after-time/
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