Fall 2008 Events
Fall Events Calendar 2008
August 2008
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Second City's "DeFace the Nation" August 20-September 2 Featuring scenes and songs that poke fun at both political parties and a variety of pundits--Second City proves there's no shortage of comedy coming out of Washington, DC, in this or any year. |
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Susan Jacoby, "Say it Ain't So: Where Did America's Rationality Go?" October 7 Jacoby, the author of The Age of American Unreason, will focus on the convergence of social forces--usually treated as separate entities--that has created a perfect storm of anti-rationalism. |
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September 2008
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Constitution Day September 17 What better way to celebrate Constitution Day than by actually reading the world's oldest written constitution? |
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Daniel Levy, "The Shape of a Peaceable Foreign Policy" October 26 A fall peace forum from a former special adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister and the founder of the Israel-Palestinian Peace Coalition. |
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Joe Szabo, "America's Image Abroad in Political Cartoons" September 18 What sociopolitical truths can be gleaned from the fine and diverse representation of cartoon art? A talk with "Witty World" president and editorial director Joe Szabo. |
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David Lahti, "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Evolution and Morality" October 28 Are we, as humans, essentially altruistic beings whose natural state is to care for others--or is socialization the only thing holding us back from utter selfishness? |
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Omar Quintero, "From Ground Glass to Silicon Wafers: Microscopy, Cell Biology, and Imaging in the Digital Age" September 18 Technological advancements in the design of optics, regulation of light, and image capture have advanced microscopy from a descriptive tool to an extremely powerful quantitative tool. |
November 2008
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Naomi Oreskes, "The Denial of Global Warming" November 10 A professor of History and Science Studies and a member of the UC San Diego faculty since 1998, Oreskes is known for her seminal work dealing with the science of climate change, specifically on the societal framing and reception of the scientific consensus on global warming. |
October 2008
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4th Annual Fall Festival of French and Francophone Films October 2-November 1 This year's line-up features La Vie en Rose, Persepolis, Dreams of Dust, Moliere, and Flanders. |
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Jed Horne, "Learning from Katrina-- Disaster as a Laboratory for the Urban Future" December 8 Horne, who has lived in New Orleans since the 1980s, is the author of Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City. |
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Science Symposium: "Preparing the Undergraduates of Tomorrow: The Critical Role of K-8 STEM Education" October 4 National reports have identified K-8 science learning as the critical gateway to all later STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) achievement. What could this mean for science education at the college level? |
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"Inaugural Symposium for Emerging Scholars" March 5-7, 2009 CLAS invites nominations of promising junior scholars whose research embodies the ideals of liberal art scholarship. Three fellowships of $1000 will be awarded to those junior scholars whose research relates the symposium theme of "Resonance." |
