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Events Archive

MillerComm Lecture Series

Christopher Bigsby
1930s St. Louis was stirred by labor organizers and leftists when Tom Williams began his career voicing progressive concerns to a bourgeois society using the fiery rhetoric of the Depression Age.  But the young playwright also created emotionally complex characters for an ensemble of amateur actors…
David J. Blacker
CANCELED Universal education is beloved as an ideal while its reality is being extinguished. Heralded as expansions of access where we “race to the top” and “leave no child behind,” initiatives involving marketization, austerity, privatization and student debt combine to eliminate and expel growing…
Piers Blaikie
Cosponsored by Department of Agronomy; Department of Anthropology; Department of Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution; Department of Forestry; Department of Geography; Department of Geology; Department of History; Department of Psychology; Department of Sociology; Agricultural Experiment Station;…
Colin Blakemore
Colin Blakemore is both a distinguished neuroscientist and one of the leading proponents of public understanding of science.  Professor Blakemore examines the moral basis for biomedical research, and argues for a utilitarian approach to the use of animals, human subjects and embryos in research. …
Jack Block
For more than fifteen years, Jack Block and the late Jeanne Block studied the personality development of a single group of individuals, beginning at age three and continuing through young adulthood. The findings of this study provide new insights into the etiology of drug use and depression and the…
Tom Boellstorff
Avatars are creatures of online culture that offer new ways of thinking with, through and about the body.  Working towards a theory of the virtual body, Boellstorff ethnographically examines how avatars do not merely represent bodies but are themselves forms of embodiment.  Framing his analysis…
Richard J. Boland
Knowledge work is conversational and temporal, yet we tend to theorize it with appeals to spatial imagery. Richard Boland challenges the assumption of shared meaning in organizational culture and the dominance of information processing models of organizations and human cognition. He suggests that…
Jay David Bolter
Cosponsored by Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate College, University Library, College of Communications, College of Education, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, School of Art and Design, Department of English, Department of French, Department of Germanic…
Julian Bond
The grandson of slaves, son of an educator and a major participant in the civil rights movement, Julian Bond discusses the promise of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, explaining how and why it was broken, and why it matters. Bond provides the larger historical context for Brown, comparing…
James A. Boon
What does "the show business" mean, not just in America since P. T. Barnum, but elsewhere and earlier: across cultures and eras, continually transforming and translated? In this lecture, Jim Boon makes seriocomic stabs at interpreting show biz (a vast arena of human endeavor) a bit differently, and…
Geoffrey Bowker
In the course of human history, it is rare enough for a significant technology for recording the past to develop: the past several millennia have given us writing, the printing press and now the Internet.  What we can know about the past has changed dramatically with each such development. …
Daniel Boyarin
Christianity and Judaism continued to be one religio-cultural system through late antiquity, exhibiting many mutual influences and practices. Daniel Boyarin reflects on this relationship and, in the process, explores attitudes toward a number of issues central to our own intellectual and social…
Jeffrey P. Brain
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Robert L. Hall
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C. Wesley Cowan
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Charles Cleland
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Thomas E. Emerson
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Dale Henning
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George Milner
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James A. Brown
Historians and archaeologists have long been fascinated by the period 1400-1700 in the midwest. Native American and European contact caused social reorganization that brought about cultural and demographic change. The symposium will present current archaeological and historical research to examine…
Allan Brandt
AIDS: From Social History to Social Policy One in a four-part series AIDS is the medical and social catastrophe of this generation. Its toll in human suffering, lost productivity, and social dislocation is staggering. AIDS has become a fundamental parameter of experience. Touching virtually every…
Joachim von Braun
Using more of the world's crops as energy sources could threaten food supplies to those people who are most in need, especially at prices that are competitive on the world market. Joachim von Braun assesses opportunities and risks in the development of bioenergy to discuss the changing role of the…
Deborah Bräutigam
What is China really doing in Africa? Deborah Bräutigam discusses the impact of Chinese aid and investment in Africa and assesses whether China's presence on the continent is a threat to US interests.Hosted by: Center for African Studies, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies In conjunction…
Charles Brazerman
Using the case of Edison's light and power as well as other cases from the history of scientific and technical writing, Bazerman will explore the rhetorical process by which incredible claims about new discoveries and inventions become trustworthy representations of material realities--how words…
Jean L. Briggs
Inuit adults often challenge small children with questions that are both playful and intensely serious, both loving and dangerous.  Are you a baby? Who loves you? Are you good? Whom do you love? The questions present difficult choices, and when adults dramatize the consequences of an answer, a…
William Brooks
Since childhood, Irish poet W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) was preoccupied with questions of declamation. In the 1880s he began to practice "chaunting" his work, assisted by the actress Florence Farr and using a “psaltery” (medieval dulcimer-like instrument). Their performances look back to Irish…
Gwendolyn Brooks
This even is held in conjunction with the conference "Illinois, Beginning with Women . . . Histories and Cultures." Cosponsored by: Office of the President, Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University Library, College of Education, College of Liberal…
Amanda Browder
Amanda Browder will discuss her public art project, Chromatopia, in collaboration with the School of Art + Design and Stratton Academy of the Arts. Browder’s public art projects aim to give a voice to the community via collaborative contemporary art practices. Her work aims to level the hierarchy…
Lester Brown
Do record high grain prices in 1996 signal the start of world food shortages? Lester Brown, president of Worldwatch Institute, argues that food scarcity is emerging as the defining issue of the post Cold War era. More fundamentally, he suggests that food scarcity may be the first major economic…
John Seely Brown
Are we stuck in outmoded assumptions about how we learn, work, and create value? Are our current assumptions about how to design and use computers still relevant? In this talk, we will revist these assumptions and consider some design challenges we now face for using computer to support both the…
Janet Browne
Letters were once an essential component in natural history research and one of the main means by which men and women actively participated in transforming private ideas into public knowledge.  This talk explores the role of correspondence networks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, their…
Svetlana Broz
"If there have been people who, even in the worst of times, and sometimes at the cost of their own lives, refused to act inhumanely themselves, and if there are people able to testify to this, have we the right to ignore them?" At the height of ethnic conflicts in Bosnia, cardiologist Svetlana Broz…