CONTESTED TAIWAN: Book Talk | 國立台灣大學南樂教授
Explore Taiwan’s contested statehood & current political landscape

Talk by Dr. Lev Nachman
Assistant Professor, The Graduate Institute of National Development at National Taiwan University

Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Christopher R. Browning will present his "Interwar Germany and the United States today: Are they comparable cases of democratic failure and the rise of dictatorship?" talk. 

Professor Browning is one of the world’s most renowned scholars of the Holocaust. His numerous books include Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (1992) and Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp (2010).

Refreshments to be served. 

Maroon Friday Tabling. Come get some popcorn and learn about the cool campus events happening this weekend. First 25 students in maroon get a gift!

Jeremy Korst ‘97 is a seasoned technology executive with leadership roles at Microsoft, T-Mobile and Avalara. As Partner at GBK Collective, a leading marketing strategy firm, he has advised clients including Google, The Walt Disney Company, JP Morgan Chase, Amazon, and others.

Author, entrepreneur, music executive, and podcast host, Nabil Ayers '93 will speak on the intersections of family, music, and race. Ayers has contributed to the New York Times, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and GQ on topics of family, race, and music. Ayers’ memoir, My Life in the Sunshine details his struggle to connect with his father, famed vibraphonist and funk, soul and jazz musician Roy Ayers.

Mira Schoeberlein, Ph.D. Student, University of Oregon, The Impact of Biological Sex on the Maximal Metabolic Steady State and Limitations to the Oxygen Delivery – Utilization Balance.

Typically, each science department, Biology, Chemistry, ESS, EXCS, Math, CS, Physics, STHS) invites one speaker each semester. 

The Daedalus Lecture Series carves out a space for academic discussion, offering both a platform for sharing innovative work and the opportunity to come together as a diverse scholarly community. Rather than a teaching lecture, the presentations are conceived as a way to converse with and learn from one another in ways that enrich our community and broaden our interdisciplinary knowledge. Daedalus Lectures are intended to facilitate the sharing of research among colleagues.

Exhilarating Sports Physics by John Eric Goff. 

Visiting Assistatnt Professor 

Department of Physics

A product of a one night stand, abused in foster home after foster home, and raised sleeping in parks were just a few of the daunting obstacles in Monti’s journey from the streets to the stage.

This is an interactive presentation, designed to help students gain the problem solving skills needed to be successful, both inside and outside of the classroom. Through crowd participation, story telling, and poetry, students will be engaged, encouraged, and empowered to make it from the streets of their minds, to the stage of their dreams.

Senator Nobles is a proud Puget Sound alumna (‘06, MAT ’07). Not every career follows a direct path—and that’s okay. Paths to Purpose is an alumni speaker series that explores the idea of planned happenstance—the idea that being open to new experiences, taking risks, and saying “yes” to opportunities (even the unplannedones) can shape your future in powerful ways.