lectures/ideas: 04/14/16

2016-04-14

The German Intellectual Tradition: Phase 2

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source: Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan 上次更新：2015年10月14日
A series of lectures by eminent scholars; coordinated by Professor Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, former S. N. Banerjee Professor of Political Science, Calcutta University. As we know, the German intellectual
tradition is of crucial importance for understanding of social sciences. Many important clues to the understanding of new perspectives like the debate on modernity and Enlightenment, postmodernism, post-colonialism, identity and self, etc. can be traced to the contributions of the German tradition. Considering the importance of this theme, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata is going to launch a programme of lectures on the following thinkers, namely, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Max Weber,
Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Lukács, Popper, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, Arendt, Benjamin and Habermas. The first phase of the Programme (September, November, 2013; January, March, 2014) will cover four lectures on Kant, Hegel, Marx and Max
Weber. Each thinker would be discussed in two sessions, the duration being of two hours each. The sessions will be addressed by eminent resource persons, followed by interaction with the participants.

Part I - Sigmund Freud: Session I - Lecture by Professor Sibaji Bandyopadhyay 1:30:05
Part I - Sigmund Freud: Session II - Lecture by Professor Sibaji Bandyopadhyay 1:30:39
Part II - Ludwig Wittgenstein : Session I - Lecture by Professor Shefali Moitra 1:41:36
Part II - Ludwig Wittgenstein : Session II - Lecture by Professor Shefali Moitra 1:28:59
Part III - Hannah Arendt : Session I - Lecture by Professor Supriya Chaudhuri 1:34:43
Part III - Hannah Arendt : Session II - Lecture by Professor Supriya Chaudhuri 1:03:02
Part IV - Walter Benjamin: Session I - Lecture by Professor Amlan Dasgupta 1:38:06
Part IV - Walter Benjamin: Session II - Lecture by Professor Amlan Dasgupta 1:23:20
Part V - Georg Lukács: Session I - Lecture by Professor Sobhanlal Datta Gupta 1:25:52
Part V - Georg Lukács: Session II - Lecture by Dr. Ramkrishna Bhattacharya 1:33:57

The Rise of Feminist Jurisprudence

source: Jonathan Taylor 2010年1月5日
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Does grammar matter? - Andreea S. Calude

source: TED-Ed 2016年4月12日
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It can be hard sometimes, when speaking, to remember all of the grammatical rules that guide us when we’re writing. When is it right to say “the dog and me” and when should it be “the dog and I”? Does it even matter? Andreea S. Calude dives into the age-old argument between linguistic prescriptivists and descriptivists — who have two very different opinions on the matter.
Lesson by Andreea S. Calude, animation by Mike Schell.

On the origins of life: a chemist's perspective (Matt Powner 15 March 2016)

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures 2016年3月23日
Speaker: Dr Matt Powner
Over the past 150 years, great advances have been made to elucidate the molecular basics of evolution and the evolutionary trajectory of life, but the origins of life remain a mystery. Join Dr Matt Powner as he attempts to shed more light on the subject by exploring the self assembly of metabolites.

辜品高：「穿越」時空找行星 (探索14-3講座)

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心影音平台 2015年11月9日
當艾丁頓爵士利用日食，觀測受太陽重力影響而位移的背景星光，來驗證愛因斯坦的廣義相對論時，他們可能做夢也想不到，在百年之後，天文學家複製他們的方法去尋找太陽系以外的行星。當背景的星光穿越ㄧ個行星系統的時候，因為受到母恆星和行星重力所造成的時空扭曲，使得星光聚焦而突然變得明亮，這種現象稱為重力微透鏡。著名的克卜勒太空望遠鏡最近以凌星的方法，發現了第二個地球。未來的太空望遠鏡，將利用重力微透鏡的方法，大規模地尋找其他的地球。愛因斯坦的廣義相對論，不將只是ㄧ個重力的理論，它將會解答人類長久以來，對於宇宙最基本也最神聖的問題：我們地球的存在是常態還是偶然？
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Alex Filippenko: "Supernovae, Exoplanets, Black Holes" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年3月25日
Supernovae, Exoplanets, Black Holes, and New Technology: Frontier Research at UC's Lick Observatory
Lick Observatory is a vibrant research facility, and a primary base for the University of California's astronomy education and outreach efforts. Cutting-edge fields include supernovae, Earth-like exoplanets, supermassive black holes, and laser-guide-star adaptive optics. Come find out about discoveries and public outreach being done at Lick, now partially supported by a generous gift from Google | Making Science, and how you can help sustain these activities.

Wesley Gray: "DIY Financial Advisor" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年4月7日
Wesley Gray will discuss his book "DIY Financial Advisor". He believes today’s financial advice is too opaque, which lead him to write his book, aiming to make investing more transparent and evidence based.
Gray is a former Marine Officer (Iraq combat vet), who holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago. He has written three books, and was a finance professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.

Modern Philosophy: Immanuel Kant by Gregory B. Sadler

"Material Provocations" with Ken Smith MLA '86, Andrea Cochran MLA '79, and James Lord MLA '96

source: Harvard GSD 2016年3月24日
3/22/16:In an era of singular focus on environmental issues, how do we characterize other aspects of design, such as the role materials play in questions of expression, aesthetic sensibility, form, and perception? Three leading landscape architects will discuss how they communicate affective qualities in the landscape through specific material manipulations. Rather than being either merely decorative or sustainable, materials have the capacity to engage cognition, engage cultural discourse, and construct difference in otherwise homogeneous environments, offering a critique to the idea of landscape as a neutral surface for events. Moderated by Anita Berrizbeitia, professor of landscape architecture and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture.Andrea Cochran, FASLA, winner of the 2014 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Landscape Architecture, believes that landscape architecture has the power to alter perceptions and ultimately initiate a deeper respect for the environment. Central to this belief is a conviction that materials possess inherent psychological content. Cochran begins her designs by envisioning how one will feel in the place. Through carefully selecting materials for their visual and sensorial qualities, and paying special attention to craft, her work elicits strong emotional responses in the landscapes. Though the overall spatial configuration of a project drives the design, ultimately materials support the integrity of the space and maximize the experience of the user. Cochran’s seventeen-person studio, Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture (ACLA), is set apart by an emphasis on the experiential and material quality of built work, and effectively pursuing design excellence from a project’s inception to diligent oversight of its construction. A cross-pollination of ideas amongst project types is critical to the practice; experimentation pursued in smaller projects, where there is a greater ability to take risks, informs innovations at a civic scale.James A. Lord founded Surfacedesign in 2001, his 27 years of experience and design vision lead the firm’s diverse portfolio of award-winning landscapes. Through leadership and innovative design, James has established Surfacedesign’s international reputation in urban design and sustainable landscape architecture in such notable projects as the AIA-award winning Smithsonian Masterplan, Auckland International Airport, Golden Gate Bridge 75th Anniversary Plaza and ASLA award-winning IBM Plaza Honolulu. James' ideals-balancing culture, ecology and design vision with fiscal realities to ultimately create poetic spaces and experiences resonate through the office, no matter how big or small the project.Surfacedesign is a landscape architecture and urban design firm based in San Francisco, California. This internationally award-winning practice focuses on creating dynamic parks, campuses, plazas, waterfronts, civic landscapes and private gardens. Under the leadership of James A. Lord, Roderick Wyllie and Geoff di Girolamo, a multidisciplinary staff of landscape architects, urban designers and architects provide clients with a wide range of services. The firm’s approach emphasizes and celebrates the unique context of each project, and in the case of a public client, the project’s constituency. Working to cultivate a common understanding about project objectives through community engagement, Surfacedesign employs innovative design strategies to balance social, environmental and cultural goals for each project.Ken Smith is one of the best-known of a generation of landscape architects equally at home in the worlds of art, architecture, and urbanism. Trained in both design and the fine arts, he explores the relationship between art, contemporary culture, and landscape. Ken Smith Workshop, established in 1992 and based in New York City, is an award winning design firm with experience in a wide variety and scale of projects, practicing landscape design primarily in the realm of public space. Typical design problems involve making landscape space within the context of existing, reworked or complex urban fabric. This requires a strategic approach in making the strongest conceptual landscapes within the limits and possibilities of the site’s infrastructure, context and program. This has led to pushing beyond traditional landscape typologies of plaza, street, and garden to conceptualize landscapes that are hybridized from diverse traditions and influences of the contemporary culture.

Jordan B Peterson: Depth Psychology: Carl Jung (2015)

source: Jordan B Peterson 2015年1月23日
Lectures 6 & 7 of PSY230 (2015) at University of Toronto
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Carl Jung was a great psychologist of symbolism. He believed that the imagination roamed where articulated knowledge had not yet voyaged, and that it was the artist and visionary who first explored new territory, civilizing it, in essence, for those who came later. The study of Jung makes the dead religious past spring back to life.

Jordan B Peterson: Carl Jung (2014)

source: Jordan B Peterson 2014年1月24日
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Lecture 6 of Personality and its Transformations (2014)
What did Carl Jung think? Why is it important, personally, socially and politically? What did he see as an alternative to nihilism and totalitarianism? How did he understand meaning? How was he influenced by Nietzsche? What is the collective unconscious? How did he conceive of the relationship between dreams and fantasies and the progression of history?

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