• University Librarian's Lecture: 'You don't like those ideas? I got others!'* 

  Denham, Elizabeth; Kahle, Brewster; Khokhar, Masud; Ridley, Michael (2023-06-19)

  The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), social media, and quantum computing is fundamentally transforming the way we process and understand information, and will have far-reaching implications for human culture and ...
• Daily Life in the Households and Archives of Ferrara in the Fifteenth Century 

  Cossar, Roisin (2023-04-24)

  Until recently, histories of the Christian church in the Middle Ages rarely examined the domestic worlds of those who lived and worked within the church. Now, a growing group of scholars is exploring the households of ...
• Making the Home 1400-1550: Artisans and Material Mimesis 

  Ajmar, Marta (2023-04-24)

  The fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian home was a site of central artistic, social and cultural development. Investment in the material culture of the home varied immensely, and it has been argued that among the ...
• Art and Anti-Racism in Latin American Racial Formations 

  Wade, Peter (2023-04-24)

  This paper reflects on possibilities for anti-racism in artistic practice. Drawing on the work of the diverse artists we have collaborated with in the project Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America (CARLA), I focus on ...
• Roots, Routes, and Reckonings: On Blackness and Belonging in North America 

  Thompson, Debra (2023-02-22)

  Dr. Debra Thompson is a leading scholar of the comparative politics of race, with teaching and research interests that focus on the relationships among race, the state and inequality in democratic societies. She is the ...
• The Itelmen Khodila as a Song Genre: Nature, Consciousness and Time 

  Koester, David (2023-02-22)

  Anthropologist, Dr. David Koester is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He has worked with communities of both the North Atlantic and the North Pacific and primarily, over the past 30 years, with ...
• Reflections on Reclamation 

  Leonard, Wesley Y. (2023-02-13)

  Language reclamation is a decolonial approach to Indigenous language revitalization, one that identifies and responds to the core causes of community language shift, and that at all stages is embedded in community needs, ...
• Rehearsals for Living 

  Maynard, Robyn; Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake (2023-02-13)

  Rehearsals for Living is a revolutionary collaboration about the world we’re living in now, between two of our most important contemporary thinkers, writers and activists. When the world entered pandemic lockdown in spring ...
• Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment 

  Kennedy, Emily Huddart (2023-02-02)

  Across dozens of countries, civil society is increasingly polarized over environmental protection, particularly over efforts to reduce greenhouse gasses to mitigate climate change. Study after study shows us that liberals ...
• Plate Tectonics, the India-Eurasia Collision, and Long-term Global Cooling 

  Royden, Leigh (2023-02-02)

  The Tibetan Plateau, arguably the most dramatic expression of continental collision to have occurred in the last 600 million years, is the result of the ongoing collision and convergence of the Indian sub-continent with ...
• The role of technology in second language learning: post(?)-covid 

  Blake, Robert (2023-02-02)

  Technology is a means of fostering language, and Dr. Robert Blake will outline key lessons learning from teaching languages during the pandemic and where the field of language teaching is headed now. His educational ...
• Making the tiniest machines 

  Leigh, David (2023-02-02)

  According to the 2016 Chemistry Nobel Prize Committee, “We are at the dawn of a new industrial revolution of the twenty-first century, and the future will show how molecular machinery can become an integral part of our ...
• How do we know what we know about the world’s languages? 

  Thieberger, Nicholas (2023-02-02)

  There are at least 7,000 languages in the world and a great deal of the knowledge that is reflected in these languages is at risk of being lost. While, in the past, this has been a colonial enterprise, only of benefit ...
• Thunderstorms in the Present, Past and Future 

  Schumacher, Courtney (2023-02-02)

  The presentation will start with how a thunderstorm looks in 3-D using radar technology and lightning mapping arrays. We will then travel tens of thousands of years into the past using chemistry analysis of cave stalactites ...
• Predicting rain and lightning using statistical and machine learning techniques 

  Schumacher, Courtney (2023-02-02)

  Convective storms are highly intermittent and intense, making their occurrence and strength difficult to predict. This is especially true for climate models, which have grid resolutions much coarser (e.g., 100 km) than the ...
• Academic Ableism and Its Alternatives 

  Dolmage, Jay (2022-10-12)

  In this interactive talk, we will collaborate to address the ableist attitudes, policies, and practices that are built into higher education. We will also interrogate the minimal and temporary means we have been given to ...
• University Librarian's Lecture: Truth and Healing through Story-telling: Indigenous Podcasting 

  Walker, Connie (2022-10-11)

  Critically acclaimed Cree journalist from Okanese First Nation and one of the most important voices in podcasting today, Connie Walker will discuss the work behind her podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s (2022), the ...
• Political 'nights', political fights 

  Jérome, Vanessa (2022-04-28)

  Night of August 4, 1789, night of crystal 1938, "great night" of colonization, night of extraordinary meetings in assemblies, nights on call in various institutions ... political nights are materiality and metaphor. Space ...
• Queendom of shadows: the female vampire on film from Theda Bara to A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 

  Abbott, Stacey (2022-03-31)

  In this lecture I will discuss how the vampire emerged from the 19th Century folklore and literature and settled into 20th century cinema to become a significant and persistent filmic presence that continues to haunt our ...
• The meaning(s) of religion in India 

  Lamba, Rinku (2022-03-31)

  Articulations of religion on the Indian subcontinent have provided clusters of ideas about themes as varied as devotion, morality, tradition, hierarchies, disposition, action, feeling, persuasion, diversity and community. ...

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