Young Scholars Luncheon Seminar Series
Sponsored by the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute
During the spring semester, 2013, the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute is hosting a series of student-faculty luncheon seminars that are by invitation only. These luncheon seminars are underwritten by the Embrey Family Foundation. Students have picked the topics and provided a guest list of faculty and their student colleagues from across the university whom they would like to participate. Occasionally they have also suggested a reading. The student convener will begin by outlining his/her interest in the topic and any work he/she has done and then open the floor for interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The spring 2013 forums are:
Friday, March 1, 2013, 1-2:30, Hughes-Trigg Atrium A-B
Andrew Shih-yay Lin: “The Future of Energy”
Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 1-2:30, Hughes Trigg Promenade A-B
Raamis Khwaja, “India’s Other Story: Water contamination, Fighting Apathy, and the Struggle for Reinvention”
THINKING ABOUT AGENCY LECTURE SERIES
Organized by the "Thinking About Agency" Fellows Seminar, this lecture series will explore the nature of agency-the capacity, condition, or state of acting or exerting power-across a range of disciplines.
Thursday, February 7, 2013, 5:30-7:00, Hyer Hall Room 100
Dr. Neil Levy, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, Oxford & Florey Neuroscience Institutes, AUS, "Psychopathic Agency"
Friday, March 1, 2013, 5:30-7:00, Umphrey Lee Room 241
Professor Charlie Gere, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University, "Secret Agency"
Friday, April 5, 2013, 3:15-4:45, McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall
Dr. Sherry Ortner, Anthropology, UCLA, "Ambivbalent Resistance: The Case of Gendered Agency"
Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 5:00-6:30pm, Fondren Science Room 152
Dr. Shari Goldberg, Literary Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, "The Camera's Agency: Taking and Other Photographic Work"
Friday, April 26, 2013, 5:00-6:30, Fondren Science Room 158
Dr. Joelle Proust, Institut Nicod, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, "What Noetic Feelings teach us about the Relations between Emotion & Cognition"
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 5:30-7:00, McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall
Dr. Steven Hayes, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, "Language, Learning, and Evolution: A Functional Contextual View of Agency"
SAVE THE DATE: Spring 2013 IMPACT Symposium
Thursday, March 21, 11:30-3pm, Mack Ballroom, Umphrey Lee Center (lunch included)
With the support of the Embrey Family Foundation and the Richard B. Johnson Center for Economic Studies
“On the Limits and Promise of Prediction”
This IMPACT Symposium will engage in an interdisciplinary conversation about the power of prediction—its promise as well as its limitations, focusing in particular on energy, the environment, and economics
Moderator: Jan Hart Black: former City Manager and former head of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Susan Hough, (Author & Scientist, Southern California Earthquake Center)
“Predicting the Unpredictable”
Dr Hough received her A.B. in Geophysics from the University of California, Berkeley and her PhD in Earth Sciences from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. She is currently the Scientist-in-Charge, U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA. In addition to being the author of over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles, Dr. Hough is the author of five books. Her most recent book is titled Predicting the Unpredictable: The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction (Princeton, 2009).
1:00-1:50: Macrotrends: Long-Range Forecasting
Confirmed panelists:
Professor Mark Davis, Cox School of Business
Professor James L. Smith, Cox School of Business
Professor Neil Tabor, Huffington Department of Earth Sciences (confirmed)
2:00-2:50: Microtrends: Big Data
Confirmed panelists:
Professor Tom Fomby, Department of Economics (confirmed)
Professor Elfi Kraka, Department of Chemistry (confirmed)
Richard Rodts, Manager, Solution Specialist Team, IBM (confirmed)