Karen Ho is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Duke University Press, 2009). Her research areas include cultural studies of finance capital; finance, globalization, and capitalism; ethnography; feminist studies; political economy; and comparative race and ethnicity. Cosponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the UCLA Center for...

Join us for the UCLA Information Studies Department’s panel discussion on data and surveillance in communities here in Los Angeles. We are hosting Virginia Eubanks, author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age, and members of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition in a discussion on the use of data for...

Natasha Myers is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University, the convenor of the Politics of Evidence Working Group, director of the Plant Studies Collaboratory, a member of Sensorium, and on the editorial board of Catalyst. I work alongside Michelle Murphy as co-organizer of Toronto’s Technoscience Salon, and am co-founder of the Write2Know Project with Max Liboiron. Her ethnographic research examines forms...

  As one of the leading architects in Japan, Hiroshi Hara has produced major works that include Sapporo Dome, JR Kyoto Station Building, and Umeda Sky Building. Since the 1970s, he has spent over 25 years conducting extensive surveys of villages around the world. His architecture achievements along with his theoretical work on space are among many of...

Renate Mesmer, Head of Conservation at the Folger Shakespeare Library UCLA Information Studies Colloquium

Featuring Sheila Waters and Julian Waters Sheila Waters is author of the April 2016 book, Waters Rising: Letters from Florence, a chronicle of the Flood Treatments at the National Library of Florence. Julian Waters was a consultant and co-designer of the book. Renowned calligrapher Sheila Waters, and her son, lettering designer Julian Waters, will speak about Sheila’s...

      ROBERT HALE FAIA, Partner, Rios Clementi Hale Studios, Los Angeles A.UD Lectures Building on Diversity: Difference and Place In a world that is becoming more and more the same, we look to create places of distinction. We investigate the conditions and characteristics of each site, client, and program as the basis for...

Daniel Canogar (Madrid, 1964) creates new media installations, photo-murals and site-specific public art projects. He is interested in themes related to electronic waste, visual excess and the archeology of new media. His artistic practice often conceptualizes visual media as sculpture by creating screens with three-dimensional surfaces. Daniel Canogar’s works include numerous public art pieces, such...

ABOUT WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2016 Decafe, Perloff Hall, UCLA Between East and West: Day Two Organized by Professor Hitoshi Abe, Between East and West explores the work of eight Japanese architects working today in a global world. OSAMU TSUKIHASHI Principal, Architects Treehouse, Kobe; Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Kobe University KAZUMI KUDO Representative Director Coelacanth Architects Inc. Tokyo,...

Speaker: Somayeh Sojoudi Affiliation: UC Berkeley Abstract: Graphical model is a probabilistic model for which a graph is used to represent the conditional independence between random variables. Such models have become extremely popular tools for modeling complex real-world systems. Learning graphical models is of fundamental importance in machine learning and statistics and is often challenged by the fact that only...