Events Archive
MillerComm Lecture Series
Charles Wadsworth
Cosponsored by: Office of the Chancellor; Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs; The Council of Deans; The Center for Advanced Study; George A. Miller…
Clarence Walker
Professor Walker argues against Afrocentrism and ethnocentric modes of analysis both from an intellectual and popular standpoint. He is the author of Deromanticizing Black History: Critical Essays and Reappraisals, winner of the Gustavus Meyers Award for Outstanding Book on the subject of human…
Valerie Walkerdine
Valerie Walkerdine examines the importance of feminine subjectivity for neoliberalism by exploring, though a series of case studies of young women, the way neoliberalism invites us to constantly remake and re-invent ourselves through practices of consumption.
Hosted by: College of Communications,…
Daniel J. Walkowitz
The vast majority of Americans, regardless of income, consider themselves to be middle-class. Daniel K. Walkowitz uses the history of social work in the United States to explore how issues of gender, race, and ethnicity have been central to how the notion of class has shifted from an economic to a…
Judith Walkowitz
Olive Christian Malvery was an Anglo-India performer and photojournalist. In 1904, she contracted with an illustrated magazine to write an investigative series on London working women, to be accompanied by dozens of photographs of her posed in various dress and locales. Malvery, the "clever Indian…
Immanuel Wallerstein
We are currently in an era of intense debate over the declining position of the United States in the world's economy. Immanuel Wallerstein has played a central role in promoting a new world-systems perspective for understanding the development of modern capitalism.
In conjunction with: Department…
David Derwei Wang
The lecture seeks to interpret the dialectic between revolution and fiction in modern and contemporary China. It starts with a rereading of Liang Qichao’s famous manifesto of “Fiction Revolution” and his science fiction The Future of New China (1902) which projects China in 2062. In many ways, the…
Eugene Y. Wang
Buddhist cave paintings remain a source of wonder and mystery. These murals are based on unrelated sutras so there is no clear means to explain why they belong together. Furthermore, Buddhist meditation rarely requires looking at wall painting, and the low visibility in cave shrines makes viewing a…
Janet Wasko
How are digital technologies changing the film industry's models of production, distribution, and consumption? What is the future of Hollywood? What's new with global Hollywood and culture industries worldwide? Political economy is needed to understand the continuities and changes of today's…
Duncan Watts
We've all heard of the small world phenomenon—the idea that each one of us can be connected to everyone else through only "six degrees of separation." But where did this idea come from? Is it true? And if it is, what implications does it have for the problems of society? Duncan Watts sketches out a…
Carrie Mae Weems
Carrie Mae Weems is one of the leading artists working in the United States today. She is best known for her thoughtful and provocative meditations on race and the African-American experience. Her photographs and installations have dealt with such subjects as the significance of skin color within…
Steven Weinberg
Symmetry is a fundamental organizational principle of nature. Patterns of symmetry breaking define disparate phases of matter. This talk will highlight the common thread between broken symmetry in superconductivity and the origin of mass in particle physics.
Hosted by: Department of Physics
In…
Leslie Kanes Weisman
Today, homelessness, militarism, environmental degradation, and disease are widespread in affluent, industrialized countries as well as in the developing nations of the world. Certainly many people are aware of these global problems; yet too few are aware of the disproportionately devastating…
Leslie Kanes Weisman
"Architecture thus defined is a record of deeds done by those who have had the power to build. It is shaped by social, political, and economic forces and values embodied in the forms themselves, the processes through which they are built, and the manner in which they are used. Creating buildings…
Thomas Weisner
Professor Weisner's research focuses on a longitudinal sample of Euro American countercultural young adults of the 1960s and early 70s, now somewhere in their late forties and fifties. This group came of age as part of a cohort with a unique generational identity that influenced their future…
Victor Weisskopf
Professor Weisskopf will pose the question "Are there limits to scientific understanding of human experiences?" and survey the fields in which scientific progress can be expected in the near future.
In conjunction with: College of Engineering, School of Chemical Sciences, Department of Physics,…
Margaret Wertheim
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Margaret and Christine Wertheim’s Crochet Coral Reef project is a global participatory art & science endeavor that has been seen by more than two million people and exhibited at the 2019 Venice Biennale.…
Caroline Whitbeck
After examining the recent history and current state of research ethics, Caroline Whitbeck explores alternative strategies for understanding the problems in devising standards and competencies for contemporary research.
Cosponsored by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Provost and Vice…
Tim D. White
Tim White, one of the world's pre-eminent human paleontologists, discusses his research team's most recent discoveries in the Afar Region of Ethiopia and what these tell us about the origins of our species.
Hosted by: Department of Anthropology
In conjunction with: Department of Animal Sciences,…
John White
John White is one of the most respected philosophers of education in Great Britain today. He is presently the Chair of the Editorial Board of Bloomsbury Studies in Education and is a past Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society in Great Britain. Author of numerous articles and four books on…
Rosemary White-Traut
Although the survival rates of premature infants have increased, these children still remain at risk for school failure and developmental delays, particularly movement disorders such as cerebral palsy. Rosemary White-Traut combines stress-reduction programs with multisensory stimulation to improve…
John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman is one of our country's leading, acclaimed literary voices. He is the author of eleven novels, three memoirs (most recently Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race and Love) and scores of essays on American culture featured in such publications as the New Yorker, Vogue, Esquire and the New…
Carl Wieman
Guided by experimental tests of theory and practice, science has advanced rapidly in the past 500 years. Guided primarily by tradition and dogma, science and engineering education meanwhile has remained largely medieval. Research on how people learn is now revealing much more effective ways to…
Aaron Wildavsky
The Sixth Daniel Alpert Lecture in honor of Dan Alpert's continuing interest in promoting communication across disciplinary boundaries and relating the search for new knowledge to the capacity for using knowledge effectively in dealing with human problems.
Cosponsored by: Office of the Chancellor,…
Nick Wilding
The difficulties involved in detecting twenty-first century forgeries of early modern books show that we are close to producing perfect forgeries. This talk will describe the history of faking print artifacts and the economic and cultural systems that make such forgeries possible. When did print…