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Presented By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Professors Petra Kuppers, Sara Forsdyke, and Jon M. Miller, Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture

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This event will take place both in person and virtually.

Professor Petra Kuppers, the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture

Lecture Title: Disability Culture’s Altered States: Pain, Suspension, and Materiality

Lecture Abstract: In this talk, Petra Kuppers shares her career-long engagement with performance and disability culture as an investigation of artful altered states, connected to experiences of pain, joy, and their (feminist) killers. How can we use social justice to reach out, to touch? How can we try to be open to more than what is easily available to our acculturated senses? How can poetry, communal time shifts, and mediated sensory immersion expand and contract our world(s)? Petra will take us on a journey from her native Germany to her current work on the Planting Disabled Futures virtual reality world.

Professor Sara Forsdyke, the Josiah Ober Collegiate Professor of Ancient History

Lecture Title: Democratic Justice: Democracy and Juries in Ancient Athens and Contemporary America

Lecture Abstract: Ancient Athens is famous for its invention of democracy. Less well-known is the fact that ancient Athens created a sophisticated system for trial by jury. This lecture will highlight the unusual features of the Athenian jury system and explore what we can learn from them.

Professor Jon M. Miller, the Douglas Richstone Collegiate Professor of Astronomy

Lecture Title: A New View of Black Holes

Lecture Abstract: Black holes are not cosmic vacuum cleaners, nor trash compactors. Rather, they are rampant polluters that forever change their local environment. The process of gas accretion onto massive black holes in galactic centers may release as much ionizing radiation as all of the stars in the universe. And, counterintuitively, gas consumption by massive black holes leads to gas ejection at incredible speeds. These winds can scour the central regions of host galaxies, preventing the formation of new stars. Although the spatial expanse over which accretion onto (and ejection from) massive black holes occurs cannot be imaged directly, it can be revealed using X-ray spectroscopy. The launch of the XRISM telescope in late 2023 - a joint venture of JAXA, NASA, and ESA - is revolutionizing our understanding of black hole accretion. As one of five US "participating scientists" with access to early data, I will describe how this telescope works, the discoveries that it is making now, and the incredibly bright future that is on the horizon.

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Webinar ID: 914 1073 2768
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