Events

Speaker: Jonathan Payne, Princeton University Topic: TBA

Abhishek Annanth, Emory University Topic: TBA

The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) is pleased to present the annual Graduate Student Symposium which will be held on Wednesday April 24, 4-6pm. This is an excellent opportunity for graduate students to present their research and receive constructive feedback from their peers.

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Lindsey J. Leininger, PhD Clinical Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

Standing Up for Science: A Communication Playbook for the Next Health Emergency

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Core Conversations is a series of rigorous discussions that engages the full arc of the Core, as it traces through the Biological Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. For this gathering, we welcome Dean Melina Hale and Professor Gabriel Lear, who will take part in a discussion on the Core and its importance to the liberal arts education of our undergraduates. The event will include a Q&A with members of the audience, and a reception will follow. Open to all faculty and instructors who teach in the Core or who are interested in learning and talking about the Core.

“North Korea’s Mundane Revolution, 1953-1965”

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE LIVE STREAMING.

Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 6:30 pm

Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122 1100 E. 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637

Part of the CEAS Lecture Series, this lecture is co-sponsored with the University of Chicago Library and features University of Toronto’s Andre Schmid. Professor Schmid presents findings from his recently published monograph of the same title which examines how North Korean Party-state emphasis on ideological and cultural change in pursuit of socialist goals ironically led to the depoliticization of two of is key revolutionary categories – class and gender.

Stuart Russell, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence. He is co-chair of the World Economic Forum Council on AI and the OECD Expert Group on AI Futures, and he is a US representative to the Global Partnership on AI. His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence including machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, real-time decision making, multitarget tracking, computer vision, computational physiology, global seismic monitoring, and philosophical foundations. His textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (with Peter Norvig) is used in over 1,500 universities in 135 countries. His current concerns include the threat of autonomous weapons and the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity. The latter topic is the subject of his book Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control.

A livestream of this event will be available via Zoom. 

A key ambition of this talk is to bring the question of temporality to the center of anthropological engagements with Syria and the diverse legacies of the past fourteen years of upheaval. Engaging with temporality, tempo, and tempus are central to this endeavor. How can we, as scholars, speak across the moving and malleable terrain of discrepant Syrian experiences that are themselves moving in time – that are speaking back to what happened and holding on to hopes and futures envisioned in the past, while simultaneously moving towards new and different understandings and futures?

This talk offers some theoretical reflections on this question in conversation with Syrians’ varied and changing engagements with the past, which are crucial to comprehending how Syrians are moving towards the future, or more accurately different futures. Centrally, it advances an understanding of the time not merely as flowing but rather percolating, hereby exploring questions of sedimentation and historical experience in the plural.