Events Archive
Presentations
Yi Lu
Functional DNA Nanotechnology and Its Applications in Environmental Monitoring, Food Safety, Medical Diagnostics and Imaging
Selective sensors are very ueseful for on-site and real-time detection in environmental monitoring, food safety, medical diagnostics and imaging. Despite much effort, few…
Vidya Madhavan
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Fatima Husain
Food for Thought: A new Center for Advanced Study public events series featuring presentations of research and creative projects by recent CAS Associates and Fellows.
This informal series includes talks that were canceled after campus shut down in Spring 2020. With the possibility of in-person…
Areli Marina
Although construction of new baptismal buildings was rare in Europe after late antiquity, more than 80 baptisteries were built in the Italic world from 1000 to 1600. They include some of the Italy’s most celebrated monuments, such as the spectacular baptisteries of Florence, Parma, and Pisa. But…
Jeffrey Martin
Taiwan spent four decades under martial law (1949-1987). Then it democratized. Professor Martin's research uses ethnographic methods to study the operation of police powers across this democratic transition. Under dictatorship, civil policing was organized as a political intelligence operation.…
Sam McCready
When Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, with W. B. Yeats and Edward Martyn, she was fifty-two years of age and a confirmed member of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy. As director of the Abbey Theatre, she embarked upon a remarkable personal transformation, socially and politically, emerging…
Sam McCready
When the Nazis transported 150,000 Jewish artists and intellectuals from Czechoslovakia and other European countries to the former garrison town of Terezín (Theresienstadt), they planned to suppress potential revolts against their brutal authority; instead they released a revolt of a gentler but…
Hedda Meadan-Kaplansky
Parent training and coaching are beneficial for parents of young children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Many service delivery models exist in the early childhood special education literature. The objectives of this presentation are (a) to describe a framework for defining the…
Faranak Miraftab
In this noon hour presentation Miraftab will share with us aspects of her most recent book titled Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking (Indiana University Press, 2016). Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people from…
Faranak Miraftab
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Angela Wiley
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Zsuzsanna Fagyal
We Wanted Workers, We Got People: Rural Midwest and Corporate Labor Recruitment Among African and Latino MigrantsFaranak Miraftab, Urban and Regional Planning, Illinois
Faranak Miraftab draws on an ethnographic study of a small Midwestern town that has changed from an all-White sundown town to a…
Robert Morrissey
Americans today often think of the middle West as a homogeneous natural landscape. But before it became the corn belt, this region was home to one of the most ecologically and culturally distinctive transition zones in North America, the tallgrass prairies. In this presentation, Professor Morrissey…
Harriet Murav
The first part of the twentieth century saw broad debates about the body and its capacities. The reduction of the body’s capacities, its growing similarity to mere things, its shut-down and reversion to a more primitive state, could indicate an overall decline, as in Nordau’s theories of…
Naveen Narisetty
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William Schneider
11:00am, Naveen Narisetty, Quantile Regression Modeling for Survival Data with a Cured Subgroup
Quantile regression is a more robust and comprehensive alternative to the commonly used Classical Least Squares regression. This talk will explore a novel statistical approach using quantile regression…
David O'Brien
Images of Napoleon and the Napoleonic wars dominated French visual culture in the thirty or so years following his fall from power in 1815. This presentation examines a number of the most common themes found in these images: Napoleon as a defender of the Revolution; Napoleon as fallible and human,…
Cynthia Oliver
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In this conversation, Cynthia Oliver will discuss the making of her newest performance work, Virago-Man Dem, her commitment to making it in conversation with communities, of Caribbean, black men, queer men, and across race, geography/ nation, and generations of communities. The work recently…
Cynthia Oliver
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Abby Zbikowski
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Ollie Watts Davis
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Tamara Chaplin
VIDEO
Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
Continuum Mechanics Beyond the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Continuum mechanics is a branch of classical mechanics that deals with the analysis of the kinematics and the mechanical behavior of materials modeled as a continuous mass rather than as discrete particles. Modeling of objects (such as…
Ken Paulson
Freedom Sings is the entertaining, engaging and inspiring story of free speech in America told through rock, pop, hip-hop and country music. A cast of musicians revisits turning points in contemporary history with performances of songs made famous by the Beatles, Black Eyed Peas, Loretta Lynn and…
Jim Pfander
Do the demands for heightened security in a post-9/11 world encroach upon our liberties and freedoms as members of a civil society? Can we protect ourselves as a country from future terrorist attacks without restricting the rights of individuals, particularly those who belong to racial and ethnic…
Philip Phillips
Standard models in physics are all based on particles. All particles have a well-defined mass. This concept is so deeply engrained in our understanding of matter that it would be difficult to imagine a world in which stuff existed that, rather than having a well-defined mass, had instead all…
Dianne Pinderhughes
Jeffery S Poss
The design work of Jeffery S. Poss, FAIA, embraces the rural condition of the middle continent, inspired by the sublime open space and the simple structures built upon the land to escape its vastness. The blending of figuration and abstraction, the common and the quirky, the large gesture and the…
Catherine Prendergast
Writer, Painter, Banker, Thief: The American Arts Colony in the Public Account
The Gilded Age saw the dawning of an American arts movement, one where second tier robber barons and their kin, benefitting from a period of unregulated speculation, channeled their largesse toward the creation of art…
David Quammen
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News release
During the mid 1970s, at the University of Illinois in Urbana, CAS Professor of Microbiology Carl R. Woese developed an extraordinary scientific methodology for investigating the earliest history of life on Earth. His approach involved the laborious genetic sequencing of a single…
Mohit Randeria
Professor Randeria will give a personal perspective on the development of science in India, with particular emphasis on physics. He will begin with a brief summary of scientific achievements in ancient India, particularly the "discovery" of zero. Focusing primarily on the development of physics…
Michel Regenwetter
Behavioral decision research faces countless combinations of theoretical, empirical, and methodological considerations. For example, there are numerous competing rational or heuristic theories of decision making under risk. Some theories feature many refinements, such as different mathematical…