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Brandon Seabrook (guitar)
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Henry Fraser (bass)
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Daniel Levin (cello)
In his close to two decades in New York City, Brandon Seabrook has garnered international acclaim for his sui generis approach to the electric guitar, which astounds with tremolo pyrotechnics and an entropic sensibility. Seabrook’s newest ensemble features young upright bassist Henry Fraser (…
Larry Smarr
After a fifty year period of a global war, our country is readjusting to a global economic competition. During the wartime, the federal government assumed a very strong central role in the initiation of research topics in science and engineering. In the last few years, there seems to be a major…
Mira Sotirovic
VIDEO
The torrent of false information and efforts to undermine the credibility of journalism and the news media as democratic institutions make journalistic commitments to accurate reporting more crucial and more challenging than ever before. The standard practice of debunking of misinformation…
Dean Spade
AUDIO
"Mutual aid" is a term used for projects where people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions, not just through symbolic acts or putting pressure on their representatives in government, but by actually building new social relations that are more…
David Stark
David Stark will present material from a research project on how digital modes of deliberation and representation are co-evolving with structures of public planning, design, and policy. That research focuses on representations of the public and representations to the public in the process of…
Gregory Stephanopoulos
Following its transformation from a descriptive to a molecular science, biology is emerging as the enabling science of the Chemical and pharmaceutical industries in the 21st century. This process is catalyzed by dramatic advances in the field of genomics, new high-throughput technologies probing…
Mark Stetter
The public's awareness of the importance of nature and wildlife has never been so high. Being "green," or environmentally responsible, is now a major focus in America and is growing around the world. There are many examples of how humans are negatively impacting wildlife. But how are we helping…
Oswald Steward
Memory storage is thought to be mediated by changes in the structure and/or molecular composition of synapses. This process requires the expression of particular gene products, but how proteins are targeted to synapses undergoing modification still remains a mystery. Here, Steward will describe a…
Robert Streiffer
When is it morally permissible to genetically engineer animals for their use as food or in scientific or medical research? Rejecting the views that such engineering is never permissible, and that it is always permissible, Streiffer argues that it depends upon the kind of animal, the effects of the…
Ted Striphas
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED Since its release in November 2007, the Amazon Kindle has emerged as a—and perhaps the—leading portable electronic reading device. Widely touted for its unique screen, capacious storage, and wireless content delivery, Kindle has prompted both enthusiasts and critics to…
Gale E Summerfield
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Noreen Sugrue
Migrant remittances now greatly exceed international development aid, and their potential for promoting development is a current debate in the field. This talk draws on a recent study of immigrants in the Midwest to explore impacts on capabilities in the receiving and sending communities. Issues…
Thomas Swensen
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Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera
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Frederick E. Hoxie
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Andrew Orta
This roundtable session will feature descriptions of the current state of indigenous sovereignty and autonomy in four major areas of the Western Hemisphere. This will provide an introduction to the current state of affairs and also form the basis for a discussion among the panelists and audience…
Robin Toner
What happens when ideology, partisanship, and raw campaign considerations intersect on health policy? What were the lessons of the 1992 campaign, and how did it help produce the failed Clinton initiative of 1994 as well as the ripple effects in the years that followed? How is the health issue…
Fred Turner
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, tens of thousands of young Americans abandoned the suburbs and the cities and headed back to the land. Most were hoping to build a new kind of communal democracy and to do it not through politics, but through the design of new technologies. This talk returns to…
Nikki Usher
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As the full impact of diminished legacy news becomes increasingly clear, platforms like Facebook have become the home page, front page, and bulletin board for civic life in communities — essential communication infrastructure. However, big tech platforms aren’t concerned with…
Catherine Vervaillie
Verfaillie has identified a population of primitive cells in normal human as well as murine and rat, post-natal bone marrow that have, at the single cell level, multipotent differentiation and extensive proliferation potential, which we names Multipotent Adult Progenitor Cell or MAPC. MAPC…
Frans de Waal
Frans de Waal shows how empathy comes naturally to a great variety of animals, including humans. In his work with monkeys and apes, de Waal has found many cases of one individual coming to another's rescue in a fight, putting an arm around a previous victim of attack, or other emotional responses…
Maureen Warren
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Again and again, leading politicians were murdered in the fledgling Dutch Republic. The first military commander in the war for independence against Spain, William I, was assassinated in 1584. Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, statesman and founder of the Dutch East India Company, was…
Martin Wattenberg
I'll talk about how we use visualization to spark the joy of revelation--mapping the invisible forces that surround us, from social networks to the play of the wind. To sweeten the pot, I'll show embarrassing outtakes from our design process.
Deke Weaver
From burial rituals to subtle interpersonal communications to post-traumatic stress, elephant and human societies have remarkable similarities.
Elephant will be performed September 23-27. More on The Unreliable Bestiary website.
Jim Elkins (Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art…
Ning Yang
International chicken genome project; Candidate gene for resistance to avian influenza; Promotion of poultry breeding on the rapid development of Chinese poultry production, which is now No.1 in egg production and No.2 in poultry meat production in the world.
Philip Yeo
Singapore, with a population of just over 4 million people, regularly ranks as one of the world's most competitive economies. To maintain that position, Singapore is making substantial investments in science and technology, rapidly becoming a technological hub known for a highly educated workforce…
Xingzhong Yu
Using one system of norms to positively maintain order but another system of norms to negatively punish disorder is a characteristic, if not unique, Chinese experience. This can be described as normative dualism. This paper discusses this perennial feature of the Chinese normative systems by…