Monday, 05 Feb 2018
Lecture: Banking on Women
Jessica Schnabel heads the International Finance Corporation's Banking on Women Program, where she works with financial institutions all over the world providing loans to support women entrepreneurs.
Friday, 09 Feb 2018
Lecture: Another Planetary
Neyran Turan, an assistant professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and a partner in NEMESTUDIO, will present her research and current work related to climate change, resource extraction, materiality and waste.
Monday, 12 Feb 2018
Lecture: The Art of Language Invention
A linguist by training, David J. Peterson offers an overview of language creation, covering its history from Tolkien's creations and Klingon to today's global community of conlangers. He will share stories of how he built Dothraki and Valyrian (Game of Thrones) and discuss the essential tools necessary for inventing and evolving new languages. The Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics.