Events Archive
Presentations
Christian Edward Sandvig
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Karrie Karahalios
Do online environments and video games have a place in general education? Researchers and teachers are increasingly investigating the use of games, digital media, and virtual environments as a platform for active learning in undergraduate classes. This panel will discuss the results of an…
Lawrence B Schook
Pigs have shared their domesticated history with humans and as omnivores they likewise have many biological and physiological characteristics in common. The use of next generation genomic sequencing is providing opportunities to retrace the domestication of pigs from their wild ancestors and…
Charles M. Schroeder
New Frontiers in Single Polymer Dynamics
This talk will present the work of Professor Schroeder’s lab in extending the field of single polymer dynamics to new materials, including topologically complex molecules such as branched polymers and ring polymers. Single polymer studies offer the ability…
Brad Schwartz
In February, the Illinois Department of Revenue revoked Provena Covenant Medical Center's property tax-exempt status. This decision will have major ramifications at the local, state and national levels for all hospitals as well as other not-for-profit entities.
CAS Director Bill Greenough invites…
Brad Schwartz
In February, The Illinois Department of Revenue revoked Provena Covenant Medical Center's property tax-exempt status. This decision will have major ramifications at the local, state, and national levels for all hospitals as well as other not-for-profit entities. CAS Director Bill Greenough invites…
FILM SCREENING
This screening is free and open to the public
A new PBS documentary directed by Ian MacMillan and written by MacMillan and Audrey Maurion. Produced by Christophe Nick and Ed Stobart.
On the night of June 4, 1989, Chinese troops entered Tiananmen Square in Beijing, violently crushing the largest pro…
Yue Shen
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Jefferson Chan
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…
Gisela Sin
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Clara Bosak-Schroeder
11:00am, Gisela Sin,The Disempowered Executive: Reconsidering the Line-Item Veto
Many scholars believe that the line-item veto (LIV) empowers executives to shape the budget and advance their agendas. Contrary to this prevalent view, Professor Sin will argue that the LIV in fact prevents them from…
Valeria Sobol
In this presentation, Professor Sobol will introduce her book project that examines the Gothic elements in Russian literature (mysterious castles, ruins, haunted landscapes, ghosts, persecuted maidens, etc.) in their imperial context. While the predilection for Gothic tropes in late eighteenth- and…
Genesee Spridco
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Aaron Muñoz
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Sara Hook
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Endalyn Taylor
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Catherine Prendergast
Endalyn Taylor images
Endalyn Taylor dance rehearsal
Sara Hook images
Sara Hook dance rehearsal
Psh*tter! images
Gillian A Stevens
Over the last century, the numbers of immigrants entering the country and the languages they speak have changed dramatically. I first show how these demographic shifts in the language characteristics of immigrants coincide with changes in Americans' attitudes and expectations about the use of non-…
Noreen Sugrue
Immigration is one of the most contentious issues in America today. We are a nation of immigrants but we also are a nation divided over immigrants and immigration policies. Concerns about jobs, culture, a way of life and economic stability all frame or cloud public and private discussions of how we…
Maria N. Todorova
What can a quarrel over missing bones tell us about the great fight over who owns history, about life under communism and about the various responses to the challenges of globalization? A focus on the activities, death, and especially posthumous fate of Bulgaria's national hero Vasil Levski (1835-…
Renée Trilling
Renée TrillingCAS Associate 2015-16
Oxford, St. John’s College MS 17, a computus attributed to Byrhtferth of Ramsey, contains a cosmological diagram that, in the words of its author, expresses “the harmony of the months and the elements.… This diagram contains the twelve signs and also the two…
Julie Turnock
This presentation traces Industrial Light and Magic’s trajectory to becoming the most dominant effects company through the 1980s, setting the realism aesthetic for effects work, and then making sure it stayed that way for the next several decades. Through an industrial and aesthetic history of ILM…
Ted Underwood
This talk will report the results of research into the last two centuries of Anglo-American literary history. The project has uncovered a range of specific results. For instance, the phenomena we call "genres" seem to come in very different shapes and sizes. Some remain remarkably stable for 150…
Lav Varshney
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Stacey Robinson
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…
Joaquin Vieira
This presentation offers an accessible description of the state of modern observational cosmology — the science of observing the origin, composition, evolution, and eventual fate of the Universe. Professor Vieira will describe his research group’s effort to build a new camera for the 10-meter South…
Mara Wade
Emblems and Early Modern Intellectual Networks
Emblems and Early Modern Intellectual Networks analyzes the emblem’s role in forging social networks and identities among intellectual elites. The study of emblematic practices propels Professor Wade’s research beyond textual and iconographic…
Wang Dan
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Ronald E. Yates
VIDEO
In this lecture, Wang Dan poses the hypothetical question: If the Tiananmen Square Protests had succeeded, what would China look like today? He will give a first-hand account of the protests and his dreams of a democratic China. Ronald E. Yates will provide the introduction and serve as…
Dov Weiss
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Alyssa Prorok
Please register for this Zoom event here.
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…
Craig Williams
There is a fascinating but little known history of Native North American writing on the classical cultures of Europe: in poetry, novels, short stories, essays, letters, and other genres from the seventeenth century to today, Native writers have been using the history, mythology, literature, and…
Langdon Winner
Respondents: William S Hammack (Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Robert Markley (English)
In January 2005, at the World Economic Conference in Davos, Switzerland, Nicholas Negroponte announced the radical idea of a low-cost laptop for the developing world. From Negroponte's initial…
Matthew S. Winters
The Effects of Branded Foreign Aid: Evidence from Bangladesh
Many foreign aid agencies, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), strive to make their efforts well known in the countries where they work, aiming to positively influence citizen attitudes toward the donor country…