Wednesday, September 19, 2012 | 5 pm, Margaret
Morrison Carnegie Hall (MMCH) A-14
CMU School of Design 2012/13 Lecture Series:
HOW DO YOU DESIGN THE FUTURE?
Laurene Vaughan, the 2012 Nierenberg Chair for the CMU School of Design, comes
from an art and design education background with a major in sculpture. She is a
practicing artist, designer, and educator in Australia and internationally.
Laurene is an active member of the Arts and Cartography Commission within the
International Cartographic Association. She is also aresearcher within the
Design Futures Laboratory at RMIT. Her leadership andparticipation in this
range of design research contexts has resulted in herco-convening international
workshops and symposia, exhibitions and publications, including three edited
publications. Laurene is also a Chief Investigator on two Australian Research
Council Industry Linkage Grants.
Thursday, September 20, 2012 | 4:30 pm, Porter Hall #100
Victor M. Bearg Science and Humanities Scholars Speaker Series
JUNIPER FUSE: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the
Construction of the Underworld
Book signing to follow
lecture
Clayton Eshleman,
American poet, translator and editor, Professor Emeritus, Eastern Michigan
University
“Archaeologists and artists have written on southwestern European
cave art, but none have given us a book like this. Clayton Eshleman has
explored and inspected almost all of the great cave art of southwesternEurope
including many caves that are not open to the public and require special
permission. Now with visionary imagination, informed poetic speculation, deep
insight, breathtaking leaps of mind, Eshleman draws out the underground of
myth, psychology, prehistory, and the first turn of the human mind toward the
modern. Juniper Fuse opens us up to our ancient selves: we might be weirder (and
also better) than we thought.”
~Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize winning American poet
Friday, September 21, 2012
| 4:30 pm, Rashid Auditorium Hillman Center
From Technology to Policy: Energy Research at Carnegie Mellon
Faculty experts from across the university will discuss their
latest energy work and preview Carnegie Mellon's new energy institute, which
will launch this fall. A reception with refreshments will follow the program.
RSVP online at http://www.cmu.edu/event/energy/.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
| 5 pm, Kresge Theater, College of Fine Arts
School of Art Lecture Series
Julie Heffernan creates open narrative paintings using a process called
"image streaming." Her work explores the psychology of "myriad
selves" that accumulate over time. She looks for forms and structures that
contain complexity — in buildings with many cubicles, or trees with nesting
boughs — to function as spaces of the psyche.
Thursday, September 27, 2012 | 4:30 pm, Kresge
Theater, College of Fine Arts
Thomas M. Kerr lecture on Law in
American Society
Political Leadership in the Presidential Election Seasonwith
The Honorable Tom Ridge
As we enter the final stages of the
2012election season, voters must look beyond political rhetoric as they decide
which presidential candidate they want to define America’s goals and lead the
way forward. Governor Tom Ridge will survey the political landscape and
explore the primary issues of this campaign season and of America's future.
Sponsored by the Center for
International Relations and Politics and the Thomas M. Kerr Jr. Pre-Law
Program, Carnegie Mellon University
Thursday, September 27, 2012 | 4:30 pm, Porter
Hall #100
The Sixth Nash Distinguished Lecture
Series in Quantitative Finance
Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?
Reception immediately following the lecture
Professor Lo will provide a brief overview of the key role that
financial innovation played in the recent financial crisis, and how a deeper
appreciation of human nature and incentives may allow financial engineers to
focus the enormous power of global financial markets on one of society's most
pressing challenges: curing cancer.
Andrew W. Lo is the Harris
& Harris Group Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management,
the director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering, and a principal investigator
at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Thursday, September 27, 2012 | 5 pm, Breed
Hall, Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall
School of Design Lecture Series: How Do You Design the Future
From Birthday Cakes to Corporate Headquarters ... and then
some
Gere Kavanaugh is a
trans/interdisciplinary designer who has worked nationally and internationally
with profound designers such as Victor Gruen, Frank Gary, Greg Walsh, and Dan
Chadwick. In her presentation, Gere discusses the genesis of her design work,
how she gets her ideas, and the ways in which she develops her material. She gives
an inside look on how her work evolved from birthday cakes to corporate design.
Friday, October 5, 2012 | 1:00-2:00pm,
McConomy Auditorium
Bradford and Diane Smith Family Lecture in the Applied
Humanities
General Stanley McChrystal: Security Challenges Facing
America
Few people have as much insight on the current state of
the military and global affairs as General McChrystal. In this
insightful presentation, General McChrystal discusses the new challenges facing
America in a globalized world, the proliferation of non-state actors, and the
advance of information technology and instantaneous communication. He shares a
thorough assessment of U.S. security and what the future will hold.
Sponsored by the Center for International Relations and
Politics and supported by theHumanities Scholars program, the Office of the
Vice Provost for Education, the School of Computer Science, and the Modern
Languages Department
Registration required: http://www.cmu.edu/ir/cirp-policy-forum/fall-2012/october-5-stanley-mcchrystal.html
Friday, October 5, 2012 | 2:00-3:00 pm
Alumni Distinguished Achievement Lectures
Margaret I. Johnston (S'72), Making Science Happen: From Chemistry to Global Health Impact
Room 348 (Conference Room), Mellon Institute
Alumni Distinguished Achievement Lectures
Margaret I. Johnston (S'72), Making Science Happen: From Chemistry to Global Health Impact
Room 348 (Conference Room), Mellon Institute
John Shaffer (A'76)
& Joe Stewart (A'77), Television
by Design
Kresge Theatre, College of Fine Arts
Kresge Theatre, College of Fine Arts
2012 Alumni Award Honorees
Seating begins at 5 pm. Ceremony begins promptly at 5:30 pm, Rangos Hall, University Center
http://www.cmu.edu/ceilidh/schedule.html
Seating begins at 5 pm. Ceremony begins promptly at 5:30 pm, Rangos Hall, University Center
http://www.cmu.edu/ceilidh/schedule.html
Monday, October 8, 2012 | 4:30 pm, Porter
Hall #100
The Distinguished Lecture Series in Environmental Science,
Technology, and Policy
Re-thinking water quality, policy and health — An elemental
approach
Kartik
Chandran, Associate Professor, Columbia University
In this
presentation, concrete examples of new models for carbon and nitrogen cycling
(or lack thereof) are presented as alternate vehicles for energy and resource
neutral or positive sanitation. Through the use of such models, improved water
quality is but a bonus and is complemented with commodities and energy, which
can be monetized. It is also possible to adopt such models to address issues
such as localized migration into cities by facilitating de-centralized and
distributed resource use, recovery and infrastructure.
Monday, October 8, 2012 | 4:30 pm, Giant
Eagle Auditorium, Baker Hall A51
2012-1013 Humanities Center Theme: Media and Social Change
The Media are a Force...but for what?
Brooke
Gladstone, Co-host and managing editor of NPR’s On the Media and
author of The Influencing Machine
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