Visiting Scholar Talk

The Ulrich Museum of Art welcomes NEH Fellowship Award-winning writer and scholar Dr. Derrais Carter to speak on his research, which examines Black masculinity, Black queer culture, and Black popular music. Carter’s presentation will closely connect to themes represented in the exhibition Devan Shimoyama: Rituals (currently on display in the museum's Polk/Wilson Gallery), and will ... Read More

Synthesized media, called deep fakes, containing facial information generated by digital manipulation techniques, have become a major political and societal threat. The use of deep fakes to commit fraud, falsify evidence, manipulate public debates, and destabilize political processes has raised a top security concern. To mitigate the risk posed by deep fakes, the popular deep ... Read More

Wichita-based computer scientist Joshua Saxe is a senior staff AI scientist at Meta, where he helps lead the design and implementation of trust and safety measures using Generative AI. Prior to working at Meta, he was Chief Scientist at Sophos, a leading cybersecurity company, and Principal Investigator on multiple DARPA-funded cybersecurity AI research programs. He ... Read More

Focusing on art and society in the 19th and 20th centuries, when Japan underwent a rapid, self-imposed transition to modernity, this talk examines not only the linkages between anime and manga and printmaking, but also the limits of those connections, and how the evidence for and against them has been deployed to serve larger stories ... Read More