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Symposium on Complexity in Transportation Science: Connectivity, Data & Automation.
***While registration for lunch is closed, registration is not necessary to attend any and all sessions. Check out one, two or all six.***
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American Portuguese Studies Association 11th International Conference
Democracy in Question: What Does and What Can Culture Accomplish?
In recent years, scholars and pundits have begun talking about a “democratic recession.” For the first time since the early 2000s, the...
Sexual Harassment in the Sciences
This panel will include discussion of a recent report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, titled "Sexual...
American Portuguese Studies Association 11th International Conference
Democracy in Question: What Does and What Can Culture Accomplish?
In recent years, scholars and pundits have begun talking about a “democratic recession.” For the first time since the early 2000s, the...
The Natural World: Pagans and Christians – Robin Lane Fox, Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford University (2018 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series)
The series explores the differing approaches to the natural word by pagans and the early Christians from Paul and the Gospels to c AD 500....
American Portuguese Studies Association 11th International Conference
Democracy in Question: What Does and What Can Culture Accomplish?
In recent years, scholars and pundits have begun talking about a “democratic recession.” For the first time since the early 2000s, the...
Saturday Morning Physics | Bringing the Stars Down to Earth with the Most Powerful Particle Accelerator in the World
Artemis Spyrou, Associate Professor (Michigan State University Physics - National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory)
We also celebrate the James Robert Walker Memorial Lecture on this date....
The Natural World: Pagans and Christians – Robin Lane Fox, Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford University (2018 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series)
The series explores the differing approaches to the natural word by pagans and the early Christians from Paul and the Gospels to c AD 500....
The Natural World: Pagans and Christians – Robin Lane Fox, Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford University (2018 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Series)
The series explores the differing approaches to the natural word by pagans and the early Christians from Paul and the Gospels to c AD 500....
Mediterranean Seminar. Margins of the Mediterranean
Keynote Address: Persis Berlekamp, associate professor of art history, University of Chicago
The Mediterranean is defined by its margins: the edge that connects land and sea, the cultural boundary that delineates the maritime region...
Mediterranean Seminar. Margins of the Mediterranean
Keynote Address: Persis Berlekamp, associate professor of art history, University of Chicago
The Mediterranean is defined by its margins: the edge that connects land and sea, the cultural boundary that delineates the maritime region...
Saturday Morning Physics | Living in the Anthropocene: Toward a Resilient Human Society
Ben van der Pluijm, BR Clark Collegiate Professor, Editor-in-Chief of Earth's Future (U-M Earth & Environmental Sciences and Program in the Environment)
Today's Anthropocene time marks humanity's domination of Earth's changing environment. Societal resilience to the impacts of change requires...
The Author's Forum Presents: Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays
A Conversation with Alaina Lemon w/ Karla Mallette
Alaina Lemon (professor of anthropology) and Karla Mallette (professor of Italian and Middle East studies) discuss Lemon's new book...
Saturday Morning Physics | Particle Physics Buffet
Dante Amidei, Professor (U-M Physics)
Recent news, eternal questions, and current conundrums in particle physics.
Susan L. Siegfried, Denise Riley Collegiate Professorship in the History of Art and Women's Studies, Inaugural Lecture
Fashion in Time: Visual Cultures of Clothing in Early Laissez-Faire Society
This lecture looks at the early nineteenth century, a sort of “pre-theoretical” moment in which a new modern visual culture of fashion...
Professor Enrique García Santo-Tomás, Frank P. Casa Collegiate Professorship in Spanish, Inaugural Lecture
Printing Families: Incest and the Rise of the Novel in Spain, 1600-1700
The Spanish novel enjoyed unparalleled success in the seventeenth century, either in long format or as a short piece gathered in a...
Saturday Morning Physics | The Proton Radius Puzzle
Wolfgang Lorenzon, Professor (U-M Physics)
Until recently, we thought we knew exactly how big the proton is. Now we are not so sure anymore. What has happened and how are we going to...
Sexual Harassment in Medicine
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently published a report on the impact of sexual harassment on the career...
Saturday Morning Physics | Wrinkles, Crumples, and Origami: The Physics and Geometry of Thin Elastic Sheets
Ian Tobasco (Assistant Professor and James Van Loo Post-Doctoral Fellow (U-M Mathematics)
On this date we celebrate the Van Loo Family SMP Lecture....
Department Colloquia | Keith Riles Collegiate Professorship Lecture
Entering the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy | Keith Riles (H. Richard Crane Professor of Physics)
A century ago Albert Einstein realized that his newly created General Theory of Relativity implied that gravity propagates like light. These...
Author's Forum Presents: "A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture," A Conversation with Shachar Pinsker and Samer Ali
Shachar Pinsker (professor, Judaic studies and Middle East studies) and Samer Ali (associate professor, Arabic language and literature)...
Professor Angela Dillard, Richard A. Meisler Collegiate Professorship in African American and African Studies and in the RC, Inaugural Lecture
Civil Rights Conservatism and the Ironies of “Monumental History
What happens when history and ideology are at odds? Are how are the stakes higher when the history in question has become part of our public...
Author's Forum Presents: "Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity," A Conversation with Ian Fielding and Peggy McCracken
Ian Fielding (classical studies) and Peggy McCracken (French, women's studies, comparative literature) discuss Fielding's new book...
