Thursday, April 26, 2012
4:30 pm • PorterHall 100 (Gregg Hall)
THE HUMANITIES CENTER LECTURES,
2011-2012: Imagining Planetarity
Anne Balsamo, Professor of
Interactive Media in the School of Cinematic Arts, and of Communication in the
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of
SouthernCalifornia
In response
to the “Imagining Planetarity” project, Anne Balsamo will address one of its
key questions: “how might the world to come be thought into existence
constructively?” She approaches this question by looking at the role of the
body (or more specifically) the “hand” participates and mediates placemaking
and the creation of a world. She reports on her new project that investigates
the rise of DIY culture in the United States and the development of shanzhai
practices in China as modes of innovation that serve as important sites for the
reproduction of culture.
Monday, April
30, 2012
4:30 pm •
Porter Hall 100 (Gregg Hall)
The Distinguished Lecture Series in Environmental Science, Technology,
and Policy: Human Dimensions of Technology
The Global Environment and Human History since 1900
John McNeill, Georgetown
University
Wednesday, May
2, 2012
Graduate Biomedical Engineering Society (GBMES) presents:
The 6th AnnualGBMES Distinguished Speaker Symposium: Discussions at the
INTERFACE of NATURE & TECHNOLOGY
3:00-4:00 pm:
Informal NetworkingPoster Session/ Grand Room, 3rd Floor Posner Hall
4:30-5:30 pm:
Keynote Lecture/ Porter Hall 100
Synthetic biology: from parts to modules to therapeutic systems
Ron Weiss, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
The "6th annual GBMES
Distinguished Speaker Symposium: Discussions at the INTERFACE of NATURE &
TECHNOLOGY" will explore multidisciplinary research areas that have
emerged from unique intersections of nature, science and engineering, such as
synthetic biology, and the potential impacts of these fields on medicine,
technology, and entrepreneurial prospects. Main events include lunch, an
informal discussion forum, student presentations in the form of a networking
poster session, and the keynote seminar.
Thursday, May
3, 2012
4:30 pm •
Porter Hall 100 (Gregg Hall)
The Distinguished Lecture Series in
Environmental Science, Technology, and Policy: Human Dimensions of Technology
Prosaic Disasters
Charles Perrow, Professor Emeritus, Yale University
Prosaic Disasters
Charles Perrow, Professor Emeritus, Yale University
Reviewing a number of recent catastrophes discloses similar scripts of
regulatory failures, unheeded warnings, bumbling responses, cover-ups, and
little learning. Complexity and tight coupling set the stage for many failures,
but production pressures and cost cutting creates the fuel, and prosaic,
commonplace errors provide the spark. I will amble through the disaster
landscape, which includes our economic meltdown, but Fukushima is the poster
child of what should never have been built.
http://www.cmu.edu/uls/may/perrow.html
http://www.cmu.edu/uls/may/perrow.html
Other Lectures of Interest:
March 24 - April 22, 2012
Reception: Friday, March 23, 6-8 pm
Carnegie Mellon 2012 MFA Thesis
Exhibition
The You Inside of
Me
Organized by
the CMU School of Art
Artists:
Jonathan Armistead, Agnes Bolt, Sung Rok Choi, Jesse England, Riley Harmon,
Oscar Peters, Nina Sarnelle
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