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Jay McClelland
Jay McClelland's research examines the nature of human cognition within the Parallel Distributed Processing framework: cognitive functions are viewed as emerging from the distributed and interactive activity of neurons in many regions of the brain; learning, memory, and cognitive development are…
Thollem McDonas
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This solo piano performance will combine composition and improvisation reflecting an exceptional continuum of pianists expressing individually unique voices, transporting listeners across extraordinary histories and styles of music.
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Thollem McDonas
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Who are U.S. is a film by Silver Ochre (Thollem and AC Villa). Traveling throughout the continental U.S. from March to November 2016, Silver Ochre created a full length, visual tone poem documenting a moment of the American experience in the early 21st century. Silver Ochre states, “Though…
Thollem McDonas
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The Sudden Sound concert, SO Live, is a collaborative site-specific audio/video experience featuring Silver Ochre (Thollem and AC Villa) with members of Improvisers Exchange.
AC Villa’s work focuses the eye on the parallels of reality shaping and defining each moment of our lives within and…
Adam McKeown
Most histories of world migration from 1840 to 1940 erase more than 100 million long distance migrants that did not depart from Europe. This forgetting underpins the claims of newness and crisis that have shaped understandings of globalization and calls for migration reform over the last century.…
Eliseo Medina
Eliseo Medina has been a national leader in the unionization of recent immigrants in the US, many of whom work in low paying jobs. Beyond improving the living standards of these immigrants, the Service Employees International Union has trained them to be effective leaders in their neighborhoods and…
Toby Miller
Additional support from the Madden Initiative in Technology, Arts and Culture.
Masao Miyoshi
As the "global" economy intensifies, the university is undergoing a radical change. While technology is the driving force of this transformations, disciplines in the humanities are absorbed with the problems of difference in gender and ethnicity. The recognition of diversity is liberating, of…
Jerry Nelson
Proponents of the new biology in agriculture promise to solve world hunger and save the environment; opponents predict frankenfoods and superweeds. The future lies somewhere in between with the old biology, economics and politics determining the outcomes. This presentation explores the…
Anita Nikolich
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Dis- and misinformation projects, studies and solutions have proliferated over the past five years. But how does one judge the effectiveness of such efforts in the real world? Can they make a dent in the information landscape given the low cost, complex motivations and…
David O'Brien
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Eighteenth-century Paris is at the center of Jürgen Habermas’s famous account of the rise of the bourgeois public sphere in Europe. Habermas saw in this sphere the possibility of a discourse characterized by reason, inclusion, and truth. This lecture examines some of the ways…
Jon Orwant
For the first time in our history, it's possible to analyze the entire input of our society at once. All the books, all the pictures, all the people: each is a corpus of information now amenable to computational processing. In this talk, I'll give some examples and talk about the implications of…
Chris Peck
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Jon Moniaci
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Stephen Rush
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Crystal Mooncone is an electroacoustic band with a psychedelic sensibility, mixing playful interaction with committed listening and melding virtuosic musicianship with a taste for risk. With over ten years of collaborative improvisation and composition combining piano, organ, flute and…
Chris Peck
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Jon Moniaci
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Stephen Rush
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Crystal Mooncone is an electroacoustic band with a psychedelic sensibility, mixing playful interaction with committed listening and melding virtuosic musicianship with a taste for risk. With over ten years of collaborative improvisation and composition combining piano, organ, flute and…
Carolyn de la Peña
My talk explores the ways in which gender and power influenced the making and marketing of cyclamates and saccharin between 1945 and 1980 in the United States. The first part explores the role of men between 1945 and 1969 through a case study of the development and early marketing of canned fruits…
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Disability is everywhere in the world, including in transformative justice. How does it show up in our work to create alternatives to police and prison to create safety, healing and justice by and for survivors of violence? In this lively talk with lots of swearing, disability and transformative…
Emily Pope-Obeda
In 2012, the US deported almost 410,000 immigrants—the most in its history. This talk traces the growth of America's deportation machinery from a small-scale effort aimed at eliminating specific immigrant "threats" to the massive and complex contemporary system, and explores the evolving politics…
Alejandro Portes
In this essay, I review opposite positions on the relationship between migration and the socio-economic development of sending countries and regions and the theoretical schools that underlie each of them. In order to adjudicate between these competing perspectives, it is necessary to distinguish…
Hector Postigo
Video games, be they PC games or games for dedicated consoles like the Xbox or the Wii, are now relatively ubiquitous among American households and have quickly become more than just another entertainment medium. Hector Postigo discusses characteristics of video game culture, focusing on user-…
Clyde Prestowitz
The world created in the wake of World War II is the only one most of us have ever known and certainly the one all of us have known the longest. Certain aspects of this world - America as the global hegemon; the U.S. economy as the world's largest; the dollar as the world's money - are so taken for…
Jean Pyle
As large numbers of Asian women migrated internationally for work over the past few decades they often encountered challenging socio-economic environments. This migration presented serious policy dilemmas for national governments. On the one hand, governments seeking to find viable employment for…