Today's Events | Digital Learning and Media Center (DLMC), Case-Geyer 548
Bring your designs to life with Adobe Aero! In this session, we’ll introduce the basics of augmented reality (AR) design, showing you how to create immersive experiences that blend digital elements into the real world. Learn how to craft AR projects for storytelling, presentations, or creative experimentation.

Today's Events | Reid Athletic Center
Come and take a break with therapy dogs at Shaw Wellness!

Today's Events | Lawrence Hall, 105
Dr. Nell Shapiro Hawley, Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion at VassarStrange languages, superpowers, and otherworldly quests are beloved tropes in coming-of-age fantasy literature. The Aru Shah novels (Disney Hyperion, 2018-22), a bestselling fantasy series written by Roshani Chokshi, repurpose these genre expectations in order to allegorize second-generation American Hindu adolescence today.Here the heroine’s discovery of her superpowers is explicitly tied to a Hindu mythological world that is both strange and familiar to her. Through Aru’s complex relationship with language—her muted ability to understand Indian languages, but her deep intimacy with the stories of Hindu myth—the novels seek to frame meaningful Hindu knowledge as subjective, emotional, and interpersonal.Nell Shapiro Hawley is a scholar of South Asian religions, primarily Hinduism. Her work addresses popular religious movements, gender and performance studies, and interactions between the classical and the contemporary. A longstanding area of focus has been the text and performance traditions of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata.

Today's Events | Alumni Hall, 111
Like most contemporary wars, Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is enabled by the algorithmic innovations of the day. In armored bases in southern Israel, intelligence soldiers cull through user-friendly interfaces displaying automatically generated recommendations of where and when the bombs should fall. Military heads, emulating Silicon Valley founders, brag innovations in AI have allowed them to build their killing capacities to scale. How did we get here? My talk lays bare a vast algorithmic supply chain undergirding war today. I thread together ethnographic research with Israeli intelligence veterans and Silicon Valley workers to provide an anthropological portrait of the pedestrian labor driving automated warfare: from Google technicians tinkering with facial recognition algorithms determining who is detained at makeshift checkpoints in Gaza City to reservists in Tel Aviv developing the speech to text software informing targeted strikes. In meditating on those bound up in warfare’s catastrophic effects, I emphasize how many more might play a role in demanding otherwise.Sophia Goodfriend is a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative. She received her doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University in June 2024. With years of experience reporting and writing from Israel/Palestine, Sophia’s academic research and journalistic writing have been published across a range of publications, including Foreign Policy, the London Review of Books, the Baffler, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and the Journal of Palestine Studies. Sophia is a regular contributor to 972 Magazine and is finishing two separate book projects on automated warfare in Israel and Palestine.This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and is part of the 24-25 Digital War speaker series organized by the Peace and Conflict Studies Program.

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April 7-11. Please see the course registration web page for schedule.

Today's Events | Alumni Hall, 2nd floor
This exhibition, curated by 10 students in the Fall 2024 semester of MUSE 300: Museum Curating, features the themes of textiles and weaving. Showcasing works from the Longyear Museum of Anthropology’s basket and world textile collections, this exhibition explores the incredible amount of labor and skill that goes into creating woven art. The exhibition takes a comparative view of textiles from around the world, introducing the community significance of different designs and individual stylistic choices. The exhibition discusses how fiber art forms have changed as local and global markets develop, as well as the role that clothing can play in displays of nationalism and politics. Ultimately, Unraveled aims to inspire viewers to consider the benefits of hand-crafted works and foster an appreciation for the people behind the woven things we use and love each and every day.The exhibition features several new acquisitions, including three new works acquired from the Jalabil Maya women’s weaving collective during their artist residency last fall. It also features pieces on loan from our student curators, highlighting the significance of weaving and textile arts in their lives.Student Curators:Leila Bekaert ‘25 Oscar Brown ‘26 Kegan Foley ‘26 Emma Herwig ‘25 Bri Liddell ‘25 Gloria Liu ‘26 Meg McClenahan ‘25 Anna Miksis ‘25 Blanca Rivas ‘25 Aleksia Taci ‘25 Professor/Curator: Rebecca Mendelsohn