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Lacy has worked in communities in Europe and North and South America, building connections among participants in her large-scale performance projects. To foster community, the artist must first read the community with openness to diverse and sometimes contradictory ideas. Hosted by: School of Art…

Professor Laitin’s presentation applies text analysis and machine learning tools to an analysis of social media, to determine where migration issues are most salient, whether the messages focus on economic challenges or legal rights, and whether sentiments change with significant events, such as…

Jake Lamar was born in 1961 and grew up in New York City.  After graduating from Harvard University, he worked for Time magazine. Despite becoming one of its youngest associate editors, he decided to leave the magazine in 1989 to write Bourgeois Blues, a memoir about his relationship with his…

Chemical analysis of archaeological materials provides information largely unavailable by other means. Although there are many examples of chemical dating and site prospection, the major impact of chemistry on archaeology has come from analysis of artifacts and human remains. Such studies provide…

Syria was the last country to experience pro-democracy ferment during the "Arab Spring" of 2011, and by year's end the violent response of the Asad regime - forty years in power - had produced thousands of deaths and countless more wounded, imprisoned and displaced.  The regime was at war with its…

Frances Moore Lappé is the author of the best-selling classic Diet for a Small Planet, a book that awakened a whole generation to the way our food ties us to the world economy and also told us how individuals can begin work for solutions to world hunger. Ms. Lappé's research and writing on the root…

Laqueur argues that the emergence of masturbation as a morally and medically exigent practice of sexuality in the eighteenth century brought women to the center of debates about the ethics of self. He explains why female masturbation became the paradigmatically dangerous instance of this universal…

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…

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…

The angular harp first appeared 1900 BCE in Mesopotamia and spread across the vast area between Japan and Spain.  To East Asia it cam in two waves along the Silk Road, one as a shamanistic instrument, the other as a Buddhist instrument.  This lecture will illuminate the angular harp's transcendent…

"So the dance captured me first because of its beauty and the way it works with music, and then I discovered the way physics applies." Kenneth Laws, a professor of physics and amateur dancer explores the interplay between natural law and the art (and illusions) of dance.  He is the author of The…

If one's civilization is collapsing, and its central values and norms become drained of meaning, how should one live? Jonathan Lear will address this deeply difficult philosophical, ethical and human question by reflecting on the case of the Crow tribe of American northwest plains Indians in the…

As early as 1904, Mary Mallon, an unmarried, working-class Irish immigrant woman, was identified as the source of typhoid outbreaks in wealthy families where she worked as a cook. Eventually three deaths and more than fifty original cases of typhoid would be attributed to her. An otherwise healthy…

The sudden, unexplained extinction of the Golden Toad of Costa Rica was one of the first indicators alerting scientists to the mysterious disappearances of some populations of frogs and toads around the globe. Anne LeBaron, who has worked with frog and other animal vocalizations in her music for…

How do we solve tomorrow's environmental problems today?  Margaret Leinen, National Science Foundation Assistant Director and Coordinator for Environmental Research and Education, shares NSF's compelling new vision of how research, education and technology must intersect to benefit the earth, life…

For generations, journalists have used gritty, realistic methods to uncover and describe social conditions.  Their stories helped Americans as disparate as abolitionists and welfare reformers to craft new notions of social justice and to get their ideas written into law.  Can a journalism of social…

Cuban-American composer Tania León, one of today’s leading musicians, will speak about her experience as a composer and ambassador for the arts, including founding the Dance Theatre of Harlem, and her opera-in-progress, The Little Rock Nine, with libretto by Thulani Davis and historical research by…

Gerda Lerner draws upon her lifetime experiences as a Jewish woman, prisoner of the Nazis, refugee, housewife, and political activist to discuss the rise of fascism, McCarthyism, and the Cold War.  One of the founders of the field of women's history, her books include Black Women in White America,…

HIV and AIDS: What Science and Medicine Now Know 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…

Astronomy is not meant just for professional astronomers. It's all about passion -- the passion of finding perspectives in the night sky in readings throughout literature, music, and many other activities throughout daily life. This talk will concentrate on the relationship of the night sky through…

Recent McArthur Fellowship "Genius Award" winner George Lewis will discuss his creative work as a composer, trombonist, and improviser, in connection with his work in computer music and interactive systems.  Mr. Lewis has collaborated with many of the world's most renowned improvisers and has an…

This lecture is held in association with the exhibit Voyages to Freedom: 500 Years of Jewish Life in Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Heritage Museum through September 15. Cosponsored by: Department of Anthropology; Department of History; Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese;…

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…

Access to the video is available to those logged in to the CAS channel in MediaSpace Ada Limón awarded a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship Please join us as for this special evening with U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. Part conversation and part poetry reading, the event follows Limón as she shares with us…

Assessment and accountability have played prominent roles in many of the reform efforts during the last 50 years. The most current wave of reform is anchored by educational accountability systems. Do these systems actually work? What are the intended and unintended consequences? Can the unintended…