University Lecture Series

Monday, March 19^th

4:30pm – Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall

Managing Your Rights: Authors and Copyright

Julia Blixrud, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

Webcast live!

Do authors know enough about their rights? Under copyright law, the author is the copyright holder unless or until copyright is transferred to someone else through a signed agreement. That transfer process doesn't have to be an all or nothing approach. As the copyright holder, authors can choose what rights to keep while still providing the necessary ability for a publisher or distributor to see that their work is given the visibility desired. New technologies have raised awareness of the importance of copyright and the options authors have for rights retention. Does an author want to make her work publicly available on a personal or institutional website? Does he expect to reuse his work for another publication? Do authors know how to negotiate the necessary rights to ensure that the educational mission is met or research results are made known? Hear how the copyright landscape is changing with the introduction of authors' addenda attached to publisher agreements and the initiation of large-scale efforts like Creative Commons and Science Commons that encourage authors to be the best advocates possible for managing their copyright.

Tuesday, March 20^th

URBAN FARMING

This is the third in a series of four lectures on Urban Farming—Reconnecting Our Farms, Food, and Community

5:30pm – Rangos 1&2, University Center

Urban Farming with Youth

Jen James, Associate Director, The Food Project – Boston

http://www.thefoodproject.org

Co-sponsored by the Urban Farming Initiative

 The Food Project has been farming with young people for over 15 years.  For ten of those fifteen years, we have
farmed in Dorchester and Roxbury, two low-income neighborhoods in Boston, MA.  We now farm on two and a half acres,
including a rooftop site.  The food we grow on our urban farms is distributed
through three streams:  farmers’ markets, donations to hunger relief
organizations, and our kitchen and culinary businesses.  This presentation will
focus on The Food Project’s work in the City of Boston—finding and procuring usable land,
distributing local, fresh food to those who have little access to it, working in
a community, running successful farmers’ markets and involving youth in all
aspects of this work.  

Thursday, March 22^nd

4:30pm – Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall

Yoga, Sacred Spaces and the Culture of “Letting Go”

Helen Wang, Coordinator, Student Development Office, Housefellow for Donner House

In this project, I study the culture of contemporary American yoga and the people who seek out the practice as a place of refuge, a source of creativity, and a space for spiritual and therapeutic exploration. By taking a closer look at what happens behind the closed doors of yoga studios and yoga governing organizations, I critique the majoy player, structures and ethose that sustain yoga's image as a sacred space. My research engages three cultural questions: how particular cultural spaces, like the practice of yoga become sacred spaces; how does modern American anxiety and New Age Orientalism craft cultures of surrender, and why the rhetoric of "letting go" has defined modern American womanhood.

ALSO ON….Thursday, March 22^nd

The Giler Humanities Lecture

4:30pm – Giant Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51

What is it Now?: An Ethnographic Study of Defense Simulations-in-the-Making

Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi

Sponsored by the Humanities Scholars Program, H&SS

Ghamari-Tabrizi earned a doctorate in 1993 from the University of California at Santa Cruz in the social studies of science and technology. In 1996-98, she was a post-doctoral fellow in the history of cold war science and technology at Carnegie Mellon. Her first book was The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War (Harvard University Press, 2005). In 2003 the National Science Foundation underwrote two years of ethnographic fieldwork to explore the cultural and social meanings of the production of military simulations and war games against the background of American society.

Monday, March 26^th

7:00pm – McConomy Auditorium, University Center

Deeper Learning in Leadership

Dennis C. Roberts, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs, Miami University

Deeper Learning in Leadership is a goal that must be achieved in order to fulfill the need for leadership in business, the arts, education, government, communities, and elsewhere in the 21^st century. It is also the title of the forthcoming book by the same title during the summer of 2007. One of the primary places where leadership is fostered is on college and university campuses, campuses where over 1,000 leadership programs have sprung up in the last 30 years. Given the rapid expansion of initiatives designed to enhance leadership learning, it is now time to take a deep and hard look at what we have accomplished and how it can be enhanced even further. In order to respond to the needs of a complex, diverse, and ever-change world, Deeper Learning in Leadership proposes conceptual frames and processes that can push leadership learning to new heights in the next thirty years.

Many of the programs and courses that foster leadership learning have been in isolated or elite niches that contradict the emerging inclusive leadership theories that are espoused in current research and literature. The deeper leadership model proposes a definition that incorporates many others that are in popular use and it draws potentially all students, faculty, and staff in our colleges into the picture. Presence, flow, and oscillation are the three core concepts that provide a way to look at the integration of leadership experiences over time and in diverse contexts. Advocating for deeper leadership provides ways to talk about those things we cherish most and it stimulates real encounters with others that make connections and mutual work achievable. Deep work is only possible when campus cultures that value leadership develop and when all are willing to take each others’ leadership seriously.

Thursday, March 29^th

4:30pm – Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall

The Legacies of Dr. Albert Schweitzer

David T. Ives, Executive Director, Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac University

Albert Schweitzer, almost totally forgotten by students of this generation, is a man who was considered by many as the strongest moral example of the last century. He was a leading theologian, philosopher, physician and one of the greatest interpreters on the organ of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He had rock star status! Instead of following that route and living a life of riches, he chose to serve as a doctor in rural Africa. For his work and his philosophy of Reverence for Life, he was awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize. This presentation will explore the legacies of Dr. Albert Schweitzer and his relevance to today.

Friday, March 30^th

LaPaglia Lecture

4:30pm – Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall

Nanotechnology, Environmental Ethics, and Environmental Justice

Ronald Sandler, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University

The goals of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) include supporting responsible development of nanotechnology. As elaborated upon in core NNI documents, this involves: addressing environmental, health, and safety concerns; engaging in public education and outreach; promoting beneficial nanotechnologies; developing a nanotechnology workforce; and responding to “other ethical, legal and social issues.” However, the documents never adequately articulate what the other issues are or how they relate to the rest of the NNI research, development, and implementation program. This talk applies the frames and perspectives of environmental ethics to nanoscale science and technology in order to generate accounts of some of these other issues, why they matter, and what is required to address them. The issue of distributive environmental justice is emphasized.