2020-2021

VIRTUAL LECTURE - Depression: Medical Science and Medical Humanities

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Someone close to you is likely taking an antidepressant.

VIRTUAL LECTURE - The Sounds of Jewry in Early 20th Century American Popular Media

WatchThe Sounds of Jewry in Early 20th Century American Popular Media

How do the melodies associated with ethnic groups go from familiar tunes to musical stereotypes?

VIRTUAL LECTURE - Uncanny Fidelity: Recognizing Shakespeare in Twenty-First Century Film and Television

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For many scholars of Shakespeare’s reception and afterlife, the idea of reading a film adaptation as faithful to its source text is an old-fashioned exercise.

ACLS Workshop for Faculty and Graduate Students

VIRTUAL LECTURE- The Hoax and the Humanities

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Hoaxed again! How’d that happen? Does it matter? Following the online fallout of the 2018 “grievance studies" hoax, one is struck by the enormous range of estimates of its significance, and of the variegated diagnoses of what the hoax does or does not show. In his talk, Chris Haufe, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, hopes to get the audience to take this hoax and others like it seriously. To do this, he will address three topics.

VIRTUAL LECTURE - Cultivating Ecological Consciousness: Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening as Deep Ecology

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While most modern environmental movements of the late 20th century were concerned with the conservation of the natural world for human use, the deep ecology movement, spearheaded by philosopher Arne Naess, argued that the natural world has intrinsic value unto itself, independent of its human-use value.

VIRTUAL LECTURE - This is your Brain on Humanity

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Thirty years have passed since H. W. Bush declared the ‘decade of the brain.’ In that time, remarkable advances in brain imaging technology have spurred massive growth in neuroscience research. Now in early adulthood, the field is finally learning to set aside its childish ways - of credulous, phrenological, positivistic, and reductionist thinking – in favor of a more skeptical and sophisticated network view of the brain.

Faculty Discussion: Involving Students in Research Projects

VIRTUAL LECTURE - To Be Held & to Be Seen: Love’s Moral Core & the Security of Wondering

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In 2003, the Berkeley philosopher Niko Kolodny published an important paper in Philosophical Review called “Love as Valuing a Relationship.”  It introduced the idea, uncommon to Anglophone moral philosophy of the century before him, that love needs to

Graduate Work-in-Progress: The Sight of Sound: Vocal Intervention through Anatomical Alteration