Thursday, 22 Oct 2015
Lecture: Holistic Approaches to a Resilient Future
James Schwab, manager of the American Planning Association's Hazards Planning Research Center, will talk about ways to foster communities that are resilient in the face of natural hazards and climate-change impacts and what stands in the way. Part of the 2015-2016 Contemporary Issues in Planning and Design Lecture Series cosponsored by the Department of Community and Regional Planning and the College of Design.
Discussion: Women in the Arts
In 1985, feminist activists created a protest group called the Guerilla Girls. Since then, their purpose has been to underline and expose three major issues women artists, as a whole, have encountered historically: a) their glaring absence in major international museums, b) their (in)voluntary marginalization from history books, c) the lack of funds granted to their projects.
Lecture: The Evolution of Goodness, Justice and Empathy
Lee Alan Dugatkin is a professor and Distinguished University Scholar in the Department of Biology at University of Louisville, where he studies the evolution of social behavior. Sigma Xi Lecture Series