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David Blacker
FLYER
Modern state-provisioned education is based upon a moral premise of individuals’ serviceability. There is nothing inherently cynical about this premise. Yes there is the development of exploitable labor value in the Marxist sense, but there is also the potential for unfolding human capacity…
David Blacker
Please join us for a colloquium with David Blacker following his lecture and reception. He will introduce the thesis of his new book, The Identity Factory.
The Learning Publics salons meet monthly and are open to all interested in the public humanities, intersectional activism, community…
Sydney Brenner
The human genome sequence has aroused much interest especially for its potential impact in medicine and the potential social and legal problems that it may generate. In this lecture, renowned scientist Sydney Brenner will try to demonstrate how the knowledge of the sequence fits in with all of…
Nathan J. Brown
Many states in predominantly Muslim societies have written constitutions that go beyond proclaiming Islam the official religion to promising some role for Islamic law in the constitutional order. Such clauses seem to mix law of divine origin with that of human origin. Why are such clauses…
Anthony Brown
U.S. | 2012 | 27 mins
Director, Producers: Jim Choi, Chihiro Wimbush
Executive Producer: Donald Young
An intimate portrait of two godfathers of the Asian American Jazz movement, drummer Anthony Brown and bassist Mark Izu. Forged in the Bay Area civil rights movements of the 60s and 70s and built on…
Anthony Brown
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Mark Izu
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Masaru Koga
Anthony Brown, percussion; Mark Izu, bass and sheng; and Masaru Koga, saxophones and shakuhachi
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Composer, percussionist, educator, and ethnomusicologist Anthony Brown has played a seminal role in contemporary California creative music from his pioneering work with the Asian American jazz…
Richard Burkhardt
In terms of its size, complexity, pace, expense, and expected practical applications, the project of sequencing of the human genome is a far cry from the endeavors of a nineteenth-century gentleman naturalist like Charles Darwin. However, if the social organization of science has changed…
Kathleen Carley
Dynamic network analysis (DNA) is an emergent field centered on the collection, analysis, understanding and prediction of dynamic relations (such as who talks to whom and who knows what) and the impact of such dynamics on individual and group behavior. DNA facilitates reasoning about real groups…
Sean B. Carroll
The search for the origins of species has entailed a series of great adventures over the past 200 years. This talk will chronicle the exploits of a group of explorers who walked where no one had walked, saw what no one had seen, and thought what no one else had thought. Their achievements sparked a…
Tom Casadevall
In addition to the tens of thousands of relief workers who responded to the Sumatran earthquake and the related tsunami, earth scientists, including those in the USGS, were a part of the post-disaster assessment and recovery planning efforts.
The USGS provided real-time earthquake information to…
Tom Casadevall
The 1994 Rwandan refugee crisis was one of modern history's most complex humanitarian crises. In addition to the political, cultural, and military background to the crisis, volcano hazards had to be addressed when establishing temporary refugee camps in Zaire. This talk looks at the role earth…
Gilberto Rosas, chair
Comparative Indigeneities Roundtable
Chair: Gilberto Rosas, University of Illinois
William Girard, University of California at Santa Cruz
Mierya Loza, University of Illinois
Korinto Maldonado, University of Texas at Austin
Disabel Scarborough, University of Illinois
Discussant: Andrew Orta,…
Aravinda Chakravarti
Genetic and functional analysis of single gene (Mendelian) diseases have shown that the underlying mutations are necessary and sufficient for the trait, generally rare in human populations and of recent origin. In contrast, the genetic basis of complex diseases are expected to lie in mutations…
Alta R. Charo
Prior to September 11, the single most defining moment of the Bush administration could be traced to his August 9th speech on the topic of federal funding for work on stem cells taken from human embryos. Embroiled in this policy decision were not only the hotly contested areas of abortion and…
Rex L. Chisholm
Rapid changes in genetics promise to revolutionize many aspects of our lives ranging from the food we eat to our health care and even our own image of humanity. Genetic manipulation of foods is already widely used, specific genetic engineering of food has the potential to improve nutritional…
Simon A. Cole
In recent years, the application of technoscience to the investigation of crime, generally known as “forensic science,” has become increasingly significant. This development has been celebrated by a variety of media sources, most notably the fictionalized technoscience-driven crime drama, CSI. The…
Romand Coles
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Carolyn Rouse
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Elaine Scarry
This symposium is one of 6 selected by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to participate in the Illinois 150: The 21st Century University and Research for the Public Good conference, April 10-12, 2018. The Humanities and Public Life symposium is the result of an ongoing collaboration…
Stephanie Craft
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The rapid spread of misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic has increased calls for news literacy to help reduce endorsement of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and other falsehoods. Recent research showing that individuals with higher levels of news literacy are more…
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Founding Director of the Andean Oral History Workshop, she is a leading scholar of postcolonialtiy and indigeneity in the Andes. She published the classic, Oppressed but Not Defeated: Peasant Struggles Among the Aymara and Quechua in Bolivia, 1910-1980, and numerous essays on subaltern critiques of…
David Cutler
David Cutler argues that health care has in fact improved exponentially over the last fifty years, and that the successes of our system suggest ways in which we might improve care, make the system easier to deal with, and extend coverage to all Americans. Cutler applies an economic analysis to…
Julian Dibbell
In the make-believe realms of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) and other virtual worlds, the immaterial objects of players' desire have become, for some, a source of materially significant income. In this talk, I revisit my own attempts to profit from the real-money traffic in virtual…
Hamid Drake
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Ralph M. Jones
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Adam Rudolph
What makes Karuna’s music magic is the special history and decades of shared experiences among Drake, Jones and Rudolph, who bring their unique and evolved rhythm and sonic languages to the fore, reaching to inspire any audience though spirited dialogue.
Deep roots were established between Hamid…
Troy Duster
The Humane Genome Project has now completed mapping and sequencing about 95% of the genome. Craig Venter (Celera) and Francis Collins (HGP) both assert since we are alike at 99.9% of the DNA, this proves race has no meaning. However, the new field of pharmacogenomics is producing ethnically and…