Germanic Languages and Literatures
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This new PBS documentary is being screened in anticipation of a public lecture on September 19 by Wang Dan, one of the main student organizers of the Tiananmen Square Protests.
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CAS Noonhour Presentation featuring 2017-18 CAS Associate Craig Williams.
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CAS Noonhour Presentation featuring 2018-19 CAS Associate Sandy Dall'erba.
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Information to come soon!
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CAS Noonhour Presentation featuring 2018-19 CAS Associate David O'Brien.
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MillerComm Lecture Series event featuring Natalie Kofler.
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Abolition Initiative presentation.
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Even when they embody everything the nation claims to respect, African Americans cannot count on being treated like citizens. Simply consider the soldiers & nurses who served in the Civil War, WWI & WWII only to be disfranchised and denigrated. What does this pattern of investing against the odds reveal about African American culture? The short answer: homemade citizenship
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Awadagin Pratt: Black in America is a one-hour presentation by the internationally renowned pianist combining live musical performance, autobiographical narrative, and silent film with recorded piano accompaniment.
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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.
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11:00am, Marc Hertzman, History, The 'Indians of Palmares': Conquest, Violence, and Land in Northeast Brazil. Noon, Lucas Wagner, Physics, Simplicity from Complexity: Learning Simple Physics from Detailed Quantum Simulations
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This lecture will take a closer look at several broadsides on view this Fall at Krannert Art Museum in the exhibition Fake News and Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic, a version of which will travel to University of San Diego Galleries and Smith College Museum of Art in Spring 2023 and Fall 2023.
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David Rosenboom will present concrete examples from his more than five decades of pioneering work in propositional music illustrating how testable theoretical models in science and process-based what-if models in speculative arts can converge to mutual advantage in the new artscience.
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CAS Food For Thought 1:00am, Naveen Narisetty, Statistics, Quantile Regression Modeling for Survival Data with a Cured Subgroup Noon, William Schneider, Social Work, Income and Housing Support Experiments and Child Neglect
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This presentation provides a general overview of the “Propaganda of History” since the origination of public schools in the United States during the 1840s.
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Professor Gruebele will discuss a few topics of current interest, ranging from specialization in science, to grand discoveries waiting to happen, to how making and using fossil fuels better is a big part of the equation, or the fundamental-applied pendulum that is currently swinging ‘applied.'
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11:00am, Lijun Liu, Structure and Evolution of the Continental Lithosphere Noon, Damien Guironnet, Dealing with Plastic Waste: Upstream and Downstream Strategies
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The NSF-funded Deception Awareness and Resilience Training (DART) project is an interdisciplinary endeavor bringing together experts in psychology, deep fakes, game design, cybersecurity, social engineering, and education.
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CAS Food For Thought 11:00am, Gisela Sin, Political Science, The Disempowered Executive: Reconsidering the Line Item Veto Noon, Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Classics, The Seven Wonders Project: From Page to Digital Book
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Matt García will discuss what it means to conduct research about farmworkers from the top-down and bottom-up, centering the experiences of workers.
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11:00am, Julie Cidell, Geography & Geographic Information Science, Corridors and Confluences: Four-Dimensional Spaces of Distribution along and around the Des Plaines-Kankakee River Confluence Noon, Nicole Riemer, Atmospheric Sciences, Aerosols: Tiny Particles, Big Impacts
