Rast-Holbrook Seminar Series
“Invasive species, mass extinction, and speciation: How biogeography impacts the history of life”
Date:
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Location:
303 Slone Research Building
A Reading by Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, West Branch, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Time, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The Rumpus, Salon, and many others. She is the co-editor of PANK. She is also the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, and Hunger, forthcoming from Harper in 2016.
This reading is co-sponsored by African American and Africana Studies Program and Department of Gender and Women's Studies.
Date:
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Location:
Recital Hall, Singletary Center for the Arts
"The Greek Crisis and the Failure of the (European) Left"
The talk discusses the rise and fall of Syriza in the context of economic crisis and political instability. The results of the upcoming national elections in September the 20th also will be discussed as the most recent episode in the neo-colonial transformation of the the European Union."
Andreas Kalyvas is an associate professor of politics at the New School for Social Research and a chief co-editor of the journal "Constellations." He is the author of "Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary: Weber, Schmitt, Arendt" (Cambridge UP 2008) and the co-author of "Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns" (Cambridge UP 2008). He is currently completing a book manuscript on the relationship between the republican doctrine of government and the politics of dictatorship.
Date:
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Location:
Niles Gallery
Event Series:
7th Annual Thomas Hunt Morgan Lecture Series
This lecture is titled: “Genes controlling sleep and circadian rhythms in Drosophila”
Dr. Michael W. Young is the 2015 Thomas Hunt Morgan Lecturer. Dr. Young is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. He is a recipient of the 2013 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, the 2013 Wiley Prize in Biomedical Science, the 2012 Canada Gairdner International Award, the 2012 Massry Prize, the 2011 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry and the 2009 Neuroscience Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation.
“Genes controlling sleep and circadian rhythms in Drosophila”
“Genetic pathways to understanding human sleep disorders”
Friday, October 9, 2015
10 AM
W.T. Young Library Auditorium
Date:
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Location:
116 Thomas Hunt Morgan Building
New Perspectives on Spanish Conquest and Empire: From the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries."
Date:
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Location:
King Library
Ayotzinapa Memory Event
Come and learn about the disappeared Mexican students and teachers and the campaign to bring them back!
Date:
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Location:
Miller Hall Lawn across from Patterson Office Tower
Discussion on Refugee Crisis
Panel discussion on the refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe
Date:
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Location:
WT Young Library
Analysis and PDE Seminar
TITLE: A hybrid inverse source problem for radiative transport
ABSTRACT: The radiative transport equation (RTE) is a model for light propagation inside a scattering medium. A classic inverse problem for the RTE is as follows. Suppose we have an object where light propagation is modeled by the RTE, which contains a source of light. Given the ability to measure light intensity on the boundary, can we recover the light source exactly? In this talk I will give a brief introduction to the RTE and its inverse source problem, and discuss recent work on improving the stability of the problem using so-called hybrid methods. This is joint work with John Schotland and Guillaume Bal.
Date:
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Location:
745 Patterson Office Tower
Event Series:
Common Reading Experience Author Lecture - "Picking Cotton"
Come hear the authors of the Common Reading Experience Book Picking Cotton!
This will count as a Wired event! Look for Peer Mentors in the Lobby in order to sign in!!
About the Book Picking Cotton:
Please note that the following book carries a trigger warning: The content deals with an account of a sexual assault and may be triggering to some people.
Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-- but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After eleven years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed. Two years later, Jennifer and Ronald met face-to-face-- and forged an unlikely friendship that changed both of their lives.
In their own words, Jennifer and Ronald unfold the harrowing details of their tragedy, and they challenge our ideas of memory and judgment while demonstrating the profound nature of human grace and the healing power of forgiveness.
From: www.pickingcottonbook.com
About the Authors:
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino lives in North Carolina with her family. She speaks frequently about the need for judicial reform and is a member of the North Carolina Actual Innocence Commission, the advisory committee for Active Voices, and the Constitution Project. Her op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, the Durham-Herald Sun, and the Tallahassee Democrat.
Ronald Cotton lives with his wife and daughter in North Carolina. He has spoken at various schools and conferences including Washington and Lee University, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Georgetown Law School, and the Community March for Justice for Troy Anthony Davis in Savannah, GA.
Date:
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Location:
Memorial Coliseum
