Thursday, 29 Jan 2015
Social Media Research: Approaches, Early Findings & Continuing Challenges - Robert Mason
Robert Mason is faculty at the University of Washington Information School, where he studies the philosophy and ethics of technology management and the cultural aspects of social media and knowledge management. Department of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Series, with keynote speaker Michelle Alexander.
Monday, 02 Feb 2015
POSTPONED: Iowa NSF EPSCoR Energy Policy Seminar Series
This event is postponed, due to weather. New date is TBA. "Costs and Benefits of Unconventional Natural Gas Extraction and Exports: Life Cycle GHGs, Air Emissions and Road Impacts," Constantine Samaras, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh.
Wednesday, 04 Feb 2015
CEAH Fellowship: The Literary Aftershocks of the New Madrid Earthquakes
Matthew Sivils, CEAH fellow, will discuss the cultural reverberations of the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812, one of the most powerful natural disasters to strike North America in recorded history. He will examine how the fictionalization of such a cataclysm in early American fiction served as an indicator of growing environmental anxiety among Americans as the nation moved away from its agricultural origins.
Thursday, 05 Feb 2015
Lecture: The Underground Girls of Kabul
Jenny Nordberg is an investigative reporter and author of the book The Underground Girls of Kabul. She will discuss the practice of bacha posh - disguising young girls as boys in gender-segregated Afghanistan. World Affairs Series