Interactive media artist Scott Snibbe will present interactive works that incorporate reactive video projections, large-scale tracking of humans and vehicles, and Blow Up, which amplifies human breath as a large field of wind. He will discuss the philosophical divide between language and visceral perception that motivates his creation of interactive media art. (more…)
The hippocampus is crucial to episodic memory formation and setting the context for ongoing behavior. Its unique characteristics make it suited to both rapid encoding and long-term retention. In addition, the hippocampus may modulate brain structures supporting a range of behavioral and mood states. (more…)
“Peter Kahn’s research on social and moral relationships between robots and people tells us as much about human nature, and our tendency to anthropomorphize, as it does about principles for designing robots in ethically-sensitive ways,” says IUPUI Informatics Professor MacDorman. (more…)
A renowned expert on terror management theory may argue that terrorism, charismatic politicians, and xenophobia is caused by creepy-looking androids. (more…)
Join NANA POKU, Lecturer of Politics at the University of Southampton and a prolific UN researcher, in a transglobal discussion of his book AIDS in Africa: How the Poor Are Dying (more…)
Nicolas van de Walle (PhD. Princeton University, 1990) is the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies, Professor of Government and Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. His primary field is comparative politics. His teaching and research focuses on the political economy of development, with a special focus on Africa; on democratization, and on the politics of economic reform. His most recent book is African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999 (more…)
Goran Hyden, Ph.D., is Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He is the author of Governance And Politics In Africa, No Shortcuts To Progress: African Development Management In Perspective, and Beyond Ujamaa In Tanzania: Underdevelopment and an Uncaptured Peasantry. He is also past president of the African Studies Association. (more…)
The purpose of the Semler Lecture on Leadership is to inspire leaders to give their time, talent and treasure, thus perpetuating the ideal of “service-in-action” exemplified by Jerry Semler … no one better to do this than Joe Mamlin, physician, internationalist, and humanitarian. (more…)
Dan Coats had a very successful and distinguished public career, serving in the US 1981-1989, and in the Senate 1989-1999. His career may have become even more interesting after he left the Senate. After narrowly missing being nominated as the Secretary of Defense in 2001 (the world would be a different place if he had been in the Pentagon the past six years rather than Donald Rumsfeld!), Coats took the post of US ambassador to Germany just days before 9/11. He thus had one of country’s the most sensitive diplomatic positions, trying to hold alliances together through Afghanistan and Iraq. (more…)
Part of the 2nd Annual American Indian Education Conference, this event features the storytelling artistry of Johnny Flynn, Jon Boyd, Juana Watson, Barbara Nolan and Helen Roy. (more…)
NUVO gives Provocate 2007 Cultural Vision Award
Provocate featured in Indianapolis Monthly
"Award combines film, activism: Festival to recognize social justice of Sept. 11, Congo in discussions,"
Indiana Lawyer April 16, 2008 ... on Provocate's Eric Parker Social Justice Award at the Indianapolis International Film Festival
