Monday, September 10th
4:30pm – Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
Michael Woodard
Jubilee House Community, Inc. (Center for Development in Central America)
David DiOrio
Sales Representative, La Prima Espresso Company
Matt Yough
Member, Board of Directors, Building New Hope
THE DAILY GRIND: MAKING FAIR TRADE COFFEE A REALITY
In recent years, fair trade organizations and products have emerged as a response to growing economic hardships for small-scale commodity producers in poor countries. This panel presentation brings together representatives from three organizations - Jubilee House, a faith-based organization based in Nicaragua; La Prima, an independent coffee roaster in Pittsburgh’s Strip District, and Building New Hope, a local non-profit that supports sustainable community-building in Central America - that have played leading roles in bringing fairly traded, organic coffee to Pittsburgh. The panelists will describe what it takes to make alternative trade networks work on a daily basis as well as consider the challenges to, and opportunities for, expanding fair trade in Pittsburgh and beyond.
Monday, September 17th
4:30pm – Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
Bill Perkins, Heinz School Graduate Student
IT’S TIME TO ACT: THE REALITY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Global climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activity represents an extremely pressing problem for the world today. Bill Perkins, a former U.S. Army officer, Heinz School graduate student, and certified presenter for The Climate Project, will give a fast-paced highly visual presentation on the science of the issue, the current and future impacts around the globe, and the root causes of the collision between our civilization and the environment. National security concerns, current policy actions, the economics of climate change, and local impacts will also be discussed. Perhaps most importantly, he will show what each of us can do to help contribute to a solution.
ALSO
Monday, September 17th
5:30-7:00pm – Posner Center
CONSTITUTION DAY COMMEMORATION
Pre-lecture reception/5:30-6:00pm
Judge Thomas Hardiman, a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, will begin the Constitution Day keynote lecture at 6:00 pm.
The Bill of Rights will be hung in Posner Center from September 10 thru September 18 for public viewing.
Tuesday, September 18th
4:30pm – McConomy Auditorium, University Center (NOTE LOCATION)
Randy Pausch, Computer Science, HCII, and Design
JOURNEYS LECTURE*
REALLY ACHIEVING YOUR CHILDHOOD DREAMS
Almost all of us have childhood dreams: for example, being an astronaut, or making movies or video games for a living. Sadly, most people don't achieve theirs, and I think that's a shame. I had several specific childhood dreams, and I've actually achieved most of them. More importantly, I have found ways, in particular the creation (with Don Marinelli), of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (http://www.etc.cmu.edu), of helping many young people actually *achieve* their childhood dreams. This talk will discuss how I achieved my childhood dreams (being in zero gravity, designing theme park rides for Disney, and a few others), and will contain realistic advice on how *you* can live your life so that you can make your childhood dreams come true, too.
Thursday, September 20th
4:30pm – Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, Graduate Center at City University of New York (CUNY)
GEOGRAPHIES OF GLOBALIZATION
Sponsored by the English Department/Literary and Cultural Studies
BIO: David Harvey is a leading theorist in the field of urban studies whom Library Journal called “one of the most influential geographers of the later twentieth century,” earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, was formerly professor of geography at Johns Hopkins, a Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics, and Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford. His refections on the importance of space and place (and more recently “nature”) have attracted considerable attention across the humanities and social sciences. His highly influential books include The New Imperialism; Paris, Capital of Modernity; Social Justice and the City; Limits to Capital; The Urbanization of Capital; and The Condition of Postmodernity, to name a few. He holds honorary degrees from the universities of Buenos Aires, Roskilde in Denmark, Uppsala in Sweden, and Ohio State University.
Monday, September 24th
4:30pm – Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
Roberta Klatzky, Professor of Pyschology, Carnegie Mellon
JOURNEYS LECTURE*
WAITING FOR LIFE TO HAPPEN
If you ask someone to describe her life, likely she'll tell you about the inevitable transitions (high school to college); the major decisions (get married? me?); and the big surprises, good (winning the lottery) or calamitous (cancer). But life's definition more often lies in seemingly idle meandering, aided by gentle nudges or currents along the way. It's how your parents met, the frost on the window in winter, the games with your siblings, the trout that jumped off the line. It's the glint of light you catch in the corner of your eye that vanishes when you turn to look directly. Only after you've meandered a way can you look back and see a pattern. In my talk I will look for it.
Thursday, September 27th
4:30pm – Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies, Strathclyde University
CALCULATING ENGINES: MINDS, BODIES, SEX AND MACHINES ON THE EVE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Center
The lecture explores the fascination with the idea of creating artificial life and ‘thinking machines’ in the pre-enlightenment period. It concentrates on the pertinent ideas of Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, and Leibniz, but ends by exploring the ‘anti-machine’ of the late 17th Century, i.e., the malfunctioning sex machines of the notorious John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
4:30pm – Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
Michael Woodard
Jubilee House Community, Inc. (Center for Development in Central America)
David DiOrio
Sales Representative, La Prima Espresso Company
Matt Yough
Member, Board of Directors, Building New Hope
THE DAILY GRIND: MAKING FAIR TRADE COFFEE A REALITY
In recent years, fair trade organizations and products have emerged as a response to growing economic hardships for small-scale commodity producers in poor countries. This panel presentation brings together representatives from three organizations - Jubilee House, a faith-based organization based in Nicaragua; La Prima, an independent coffee roaster in Pittsburgh’s Strip District, and Building New Hope, a local non-profit that supports sustainable community-building in Central America - that have played leading roles in bringing fairly traded, organic coffee to Pittsburgh. The panelists will describe what it takes to make alternative trade networks work on a daily basis as well as consider the challenges to, and opportunities for, expanding fair trade in Pittsburgh and beyond.
Monday, September 17th
4:30pm – Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
Bill Perkins, Heinz School Graduate Student
IT’S TIME TO ACT: THE REALITY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Global climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activity represents an extremely pressing problem for the world today. Bill Perkins, a former U.S. Army officer, Heinz School graduate student, and certified presenter for The Climate Project, will give a fast-paced highly visual presentation on the science of the issue, the current and future impacts around the globe, and the root causes of the collision between our civilization and the environment. National security concerns, current policy actions, the economics of climate change, and local impacts will also be discussed. Perhaps most importantly, he will show what each of us can do to help contribute to a solution.
ALSO
Monday, September 17th
5:30-7:00pm – Posner Center
CONSTITUTION DAY COMMEMORATION
Pre-lecture reception/5:30-6:00pm
Judge Thomas Hardiman, a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, will begin the Constitution Day keynote lecture at 6:00 pm.
The Bill of Rights will be hung in Posner Center from September 10 thru September 18 for public viewing.
Tuesday, September 18th
4:30pm – McConomy Auditorium, University Center (NOTE LOCATION)
Randy Pausch, Computer Science, HCII, and Design
JOURNEYS LECTURE*
REALLY ACHIEVING YOUR CHILDHOOD DREAMS
Almost all of us have childhood dreams: for example, being an astronaut, or making movies or video games for a living. Sadly, most people don't achieve theirs, and I think that's a shame. I had several specific childhood dreams, and I've actually achieved most of them. More importantly, I have found ways, in particular the creation (with Don Marinelli), of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (http://www.etc.cmu.edu), of helping many young people actually *achieve* their childhood dreams. This talk will discuss how I achieved my childhood dreams (being in zero gravity, designing theme park rides for Disney, and a few others), and will contain realistic advice on how *you* can live your life so that you can make your childhood dreams come true, too.
Thursday, September 20th
4:30pm – Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, Graduate Center at City University of New York (CUNY)
GEOGRAPHIES OF GLOBALIZATION
Sponsored by the English Department/Literary and Cultural Studies
BIO: David Harvey is a leading theorist in the field of urban studies whom Library Journal called “one of the most influential geographers of the later twentieth century,” earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University, was formerly professor of geography at Johns Hopkins, a Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics, and Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford. His refections on the importance of space and place (and more recently “nature”) have attracted considerable attention across the humanities and social sciences. His highly influential books include The New Imperialism; Paris, Capital of Modernity; Social Justice and the City; Limits to Capital; The Urbanization of Capital; and The Condition of Postmodernity, to name a few. He holds honorary degrees from the universities of Buenos Aires, Roskilde in Denmark, Uppsala in Sweden, and Ohio State University.
Monday, September 24th
4:30pm – Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
Roberta Klatzky, Professor of Pyschology, Carnegie Mellon
JOURNEYS LECTURE*
WAITING FOR LIFE TO HAPPEN
If you ask someone to describe her life, likely she'll tell you about the inevitable transitions (high school to college); the major decisions (get married? me?); and the big surprises, good (winning the lottery) or calamitous (cancer). But life's definition more often lies in seemingly idle meandering, aided by gentle nudges or currents along the way. It's how your parents met, the frost on the window in winter, the games with your siblings, the trout that jumped off the line. It's the glint of light you catch in the corner of your eye that vanishes when you turn to look directly. Only after you've meandered a way can you look back and see a pattern. In my talk I will look for it.
Thursday, September 27th
4:30pm – Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall
Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English Studies, Strathclyde University
CALCULATING ENGINES: MINDS, BODIES, SEX AND MACHINES ON THE EVE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Center
The lecture explores the fascination with the idea of creating artificial life and ‘thinking machines’ in the pre-enlightenment period. It concentrates on the pertinent ideas of Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, and Leibniz, but ends by exploring the ‘anti-machine’ of the late 17th Century, i.e., the malfunctioning sex machines of the notorious John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.
Saturday, September 29th
8:00am-5:00pm – University Center
Keynote by E.O. Wilson
RACHEL CARSON LEGACY CONFERENCE
Sustaining the Web of Life in Modern Society
http://www.rachelcarsonhomestead.org/
Carnegie Mellon students, please contact Cathy Ribarchak at cr2@andrew.cmu.edu for FREE registration.
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