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Events Archive

Initiatives

M. S. Swaminathan
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Timothy G. Reeves
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
Watch video here 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
Watch the video here 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…
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Professor Zeleza's presentation will explore the scale of Africans' contemporary global migrations and how they compare to those from other world regions? What are the forces behind the African migrations and their impact and implications for the region? This presentation interrogates conventional…
Raymond A. Zilinskas
Some myths about bioterrorism are that pathogens are synonymous to weapons and biological weapons capable of killing many people are easy to procure and deploy.  Lessons from past bioterrorist events and operations of national biological warfare programs indicate otherwise.  This talk clarifies…

Annual Lecture

James Anderson
In the aftermath of the Civil War, Congress passed the landmark amendments to the Constitution (13th, 14th and 15th) that ended slavery, defined citizenship, guaranteed equal protection of the laws and expanded the right to vote to all male citizens. This series of Constitutional transformations…
Renée Baillargeon
Recent research indicates that children in the first two years of life already possess rich expectations about how individuals should act toward others. These expectations appear to be guided by a small set of abstract sociomoral principles. My talk will focus on three of these principles: fairness…
Gordon A Baym
At very low temperatures certain gases and liquids undergo Bose-Einstein condensation -- a phenomenon first proposed by Einstein in 1925 -- in which atoms stop behaving independently, but march together in lock step. Only recently have physicists, using magnetic fields and lasers, been able to…
Nina Baym
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May R Berenbaum
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Leon DeCosta Dash
This will be a wide-ranging talk, covering the issues of social exclusion and underclass life. Leon Dash will cover the period from 1971-96 plus broadening the scope to the current time. He will talk about adolescent mothers and their children growing up and living in urban poverty, but only a…
Matthew W Finkin
Should the law distinguish the lease of labor from the lease of a house? Roman law said “no.” Jewish law said “yes.” The debate echoes down the centuries and in America today. By the end of the 1940s, the United States settled upon a modus vivendi: a low statutory floor for wages and hours upon…
Martha U Gillette
Timekeeping is part of the very fabric of life, embedded in the genes and expressed in orchestrated cycles of molecules, cells and body systems. Life processes oscillate over timescales of milliseconds to years. Understanding circadian rhythms, those repeating ~24 hours, has been a grand challenge.…
William T Greenough
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Martin Gruebele
Watch the video here Science and Engineering can find solutions to problems large and small—and the solution always comes with unexpected consequences, hopefully with solutions of their own. Professor Gruebele will discuss a few topics of current interest, ranging from specialization in science, to…