Tuesday, 05 Feb 2019
Lecture: Ames Connection to WW2's Manhattan Project
Learn how a small group of scientists from Ames played a critical roll in The Manhattan Project.
Thursday, 07 Feb 2019
Lecture: Left, Right and Liberalism in Public Life
David T. Koyzis, a Fellow in Politics at the St. George's Centre for Biblical and Public Theology, will discuss how the labels "left" and "right" mask the dominance of liberal individualism, contributing to political polarization.
Lecture: The Science of Flirting
Jeffrey Hall is an associate professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas and an expert on flirting and communication in romantic relationships.
Friday, 08 Feb 2019
Friday Research Seminar: Topologies: Aesthetics and Contexts in Computational Systems in Visual Arts Practice
Johnny DiBlasi, a new assistant professor in the Department of Art and Visual Culture, will discuss issues regarding technology's effects on the arc of visual arts practices and theories and how these ideas inspire his own creative inquiry. Part of the IDRO Friday Research Seminar Series.
Monday, 11 Feb 2019
Lecture: Urbanization in the Global Cold War: Thinking the Third World through the Second World
Lukasz Stanek, a visiting associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan, will speak about the ways in which the discourse about urbanization has been dominated by Western urban centers and concepts, and how cities in West Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe have been places where competing concepts, methodologies and frameworks are debated, tested and developed.
Lecture: Chicano Activism and Immigration
Jimmy Patino is an assistant professor of Chicano & Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Tuesday, 12 Feb 2019
Lecture: Food & Faith, Why Eating is a Moral Act
Jim Ennis is the executive director of Catholic Rural Life, a nonprofit organization dedicated to issues affecting rural communities, including a just and sustainable food supply and the spiritual, social, and economic wellbeing of rural America.