Archive for December, 2007

January 5 — Wounded Knee Film Series: The Ride to Wounded Knee

Monday, December 31st, 2007

The Ride to Wounded Knee is the first event in the Eiteljorg Museum’s month-long exploration of the last armed conflict between the Dakota Sioux and the United States, which resulted in the deaths of more than 146 men, women and children in 1890. The Ride to Wounded Knee explores the event through a ceremonial reenactment, performed by descendants of survivors 100 years later. (more…)

January 26 — “Global Warning: An Environment for Change?”

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

IUPUI’s Dean’s Day combines the faculties of the School of Liberal Arts and the School of Science to examine facets of global climate change. Hope you are an IUPUI alumnus and can attend, it should be good. (more…)

February 1 — Carribean Landscapes: A New Interpretive Atlas of the Caribbean

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Reflections and notes from a new book that is the first of its kind for the Caribbean: an interpretive introduction to the natural and human landscapes of the region based on new high-resolution satellite photographs, ground photographs, maps, and interpretive essays (focus especially on Cuba). (more…)

January 18 — “Communication and Competitive Advantage”

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

The way organizations communicate substantially determines their ability to gain a competitive advantage in the global marketplace. New technologies have changed every aspect of organizational performance, from product design to customer service. (more…)

January 11 — “The Largest Early Modern European Health Care Network Ever Built”

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

IUPUI history prof Kevin Robbins discusses France’s oldest charity hospital in the Burgundian city of Beaune and the development of European charitable endowments as catalysts of early modern consumer culture. (more…)

March 8 — Third Annual Darwin Day Conference

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Christmas, Easter, Thanks-Giving … Why should supernaturalists get all the great holidays? “Darwin Day” is catching on as naturalists’ occasion to get their celebrating groove on. (more…)

April 12 — “Mormons and American Life”

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

All the top scholars are coming to IUPUI for a major conference that goes beyond asking whether Mitt Romney’s faith is responsible for his lousy political campaign. (more…)

April 11 — Spokesperson for “A Global Federation committed to Science, Reason, Free Inquiry, Secularism, and Planetary Ethics”

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

The Center for Inquiry aspires to provide an authoritative and credible voice defending the scientific outlook in examining religion, human values, and the borderlands of science, a new institution devoted to articulating and dramatizing to the public a naturalistic outlook is to supplant the ancient mythological narratives of the past. (more…)

April 10 — “Varieties of Naturalism: The Nature of Faith and Naturalist Responses to Atheism”

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Being a naturalist means basing one’s knowledge on the mterial world, rejecting super-naturalism. Does that mean a naturalist must be an atheist? (more…)

April 10 — Santayana Seminar

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

80 years ago, George Santayana called John Dewey’s naturalism “half-hearted and short-winded.” Dewey replied that Santayana’s naturalism seems as “broken-backed as mine to him seems short-winded.” Might we see a continuation of this philosophic kerfuffle at IUPUI? (more…)