Join us to celebrate Politics & Government Professor Alisa Kessel's newest book, now available from Oxford University Press: Rape Fantasies: Rape Culture and the Persistence of Sexual Violence. Reception to follow book talk.

What does it mean to think about Asia beyond humans?

Come and join a public lecture by Greg Radick, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds in the U.K.

Radick is a historian and philosopher of science specializing in the history of the modern biological and human sciences. He will be speaking about his book, Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology.

On June 4, 2011, while rock climbing near Gunnison, Colorado, Danielle had a tragic accident, falling over 250 feet, breaking her ankles, femur, pelvis, and back in 2 places. Paralyzed at T6 and a wheelchair user, she had 6 surgeries and was hospitalized for 3 and a half months. Her surgeon believes Danielle survived the longest fall on record onto a hard surface, and wrote an article about it.

As history is removed from our textbooks and public spaces, how do we preserve collective memory and history?

How do absence, grief, memory, and resilience impact history?

What is the role of ideology and political predisposition in our understanding of history?

Join us as our panelists discuss these and other historically relevant questions.

AI and Privacy aims to bring together scholars, practitioners, technologists, and policymakers to examine the rapidly evolving challenges and possibilities at the intersection of artificial intelligence and data sharing. The symposium explores how the algorithmic turn is reshaping longstanding privacy concerns, from biometric and biological data (“bioprivacy”) to creative and cultural domains. Sessions will investigate emerging privacy risks, shifting social norms, and the ways AI is transforming what counts as private, knowable, and controllable.

The Mortar Board Last Lecture Series chooses a retiring faculty member to give a talk on a topic of their choice. Dr. Lisa Nunn will be retiring this spring after a career teaching in the Economics department, from which she earned her bachelor's degree.

Dmitri Brown '12, Assistant Professor of North American History at UC Berkeley, will present his research on a Tewa Pueblo history of the Manhattan Project. 

A rich multidisciplinary panel discussion on the topic of memory.  

Join us for a rich multidisciplinary panel discussion exploring these topic questions: