Liu Yichun, "Structure Matters"

source: Harvard GSD    2016年4月21日
4/19/16
Liu Yichun, a principal of Atelier Deshaus, will offer a tectonic and symbolic perspective illustrated by some of his architecture firm’s projects, showing how structure can play an ontological role in shaping the intrinsic quality of architecture (primitivity and poetry of space, modernity of interior, etc) in line with the roles of other elements, such as site, light, and surface. Yichun (b. 1969; MArch, Tongji University, 1997) was a guest professor at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, and at Southeast University School of Architecture. He founded Atelier Deshaus in Shanghai in 2001 with Chen Yifeng and Zhuang Shen. Architecture awards won by Atelier Deshaus include Business Week/Architectural Record China Award (2006) and WA Chinese Architecture Award (2006 and 2010). The firm's work has been shown in major international exhibitions on contemporary Chinese architecture in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Paris, Düsseldorf, Bordeaux, Rotterdam, London, Cincinnati, Brussels, Barcelona, Venice, Prague, Hong Kong, Milan, Tokyo, and Vienna. In 2011, Atelier Deshaus was selected by Architectural Record to be one of ten firms in that year’s Design Vanguard.

The Long-run Effect of Maternity Leave Benefits on Mental Health: Evidence from European Countries

source: Harvard University     2016年4月8日
Maternity leave policies have known effects on short-term child outcomes. However, little is known about the long-run impact of such leaves on women’s health as they age. This seminar examines whether maternity leave policies have an effect on women's mental health in older age. Data for women age 50 years and above from countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) are linked to data on maternity leave legislation from 1960 onwards. A difference-in-differences approach that exploits changes over time within countries in the duration and compensation of maternity leave benefits is linked to the year women were giving birth to their first child at age 16 to 25. Late-life depressive symptom scores of mothers who were in employment in the period around the birth of their first child were compared to depression scores of mothers who were not in employment in the period surrounding the birth of a first child and, therefore, did not benefit directly from maternity leave benefits. The findings suggest that a more generous maternity leave during the birth of a first child is associated with reduced depression symptoms in late life. This seminar explores how policies experienced in midlife may have long-run consequences for women’s health and wellbeing.

Cannabis: pleasure, madness and medicine (Valerie Curran - 8 Dec 2015)

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures    2015年12月22日
Speaker: Professor Valerie Curran, UCL Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit
Cannabis has been used throughout history for medicinal as well as pleasurable effects. Its 100 unique ingredients vary widely in different types of cannabis, posing a range of questions in terms of medicalisation and legalisation. This lecture will look at its effects, but also its potential.

How Large Is the Bill for Global Climate Change?

source: Simon Fraser University    2016年1月14日
Dr. Chris Hope, Reader in Policy Modelling, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK.
Abstract: This lecture focuses on climate change policies in developed and developing countries with an emphasis on the economic and social costs of carbon. Dr. Hope’s research involves numerical information in public policy and the integrated assessment modelling of climate change. An economist, Dr. Hope was an advisor to the Stern review on the Economics of Climate Change and was the special advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs Inquiry into aspects of the economics of climate change.

British and American Visual Culture During the Second World War (Yale University)

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source: Yale University      上次更新日期：2015年6月18日
On December 8, 1941, immediately following the declaration of the American entry into World War II, President Roosevelt telegraphed Prime Minister Churchill, “Today all of us are in the same boat with you and the people of the empire and it is a ship which will not and cannot be sunk.”

This two-day conference in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University, held on the seventieth anniversary of VE-day, investigated the textured relationship between war-time visual cultures of America and Britain. The papers considered the cultural origins of the postwar political and economic bond which came to be called the “special relationship,” and explored the various political and social pressures that shaped image-making in the two countries. This conference focused on the visual cultural exchange between the two countries, identifying parallels between the way images and culture were politically mobilized and influenced by the social impacts of war itself.

This conference was made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art. It was also generously sponsored by the Yale University Department of the History of Art, the Yale Center for British Art, the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.

"In the Same Boat”: Welcome Remarks and Introduction 21:40
Displaying a Democratic Future: 'Rebuilding Britain' and 'American Housing in War and Peace' 28:14
'The Exhibition of Modern British Crafts' in the United States 27:39
Suffering at Sea: Peter Blume’s Nautical Trauma 25:20
Kindred Spirits of Place: Charles Burchfield and Paul Nash 24:05
“The Inevitable Triumph”: Violet Oakley’s 'The Angel of Victory' (1941) 25:12
The Shining Example: Voice, Action, and Wartime Cartoons in the African American Press 24:21
“Right at the Ringside”: Life Magazine’s War Art Program, 1941-1945 25:53
Defending the Land, Reinventing the Landscape 47:57
David Sylvester: The Making of an Art Critic 1941-1956 37:52
Plain Words and War Paint: A Portrait of London’s Civil Defense by Meredith Frampton 27:25
Rowing side by side: Women War Artists in Britain and America during the Second World War 29:15
Viewing Airstrip One: Anglo-American Exchanges in Wartime 55:14
"In the Same Boat”: Introduction to the film "A Canterbury Tale" 9:30
"In the Same Boat”: Roundtable Discussion of the Film "A Canterbury Tale" 48:36

Where Do Planets Come From with Anjali Tripathi | CfA

source: Harvard University   2016年3月25日
Understanding the birthplaces of planets is an ongoing mystery. Planets have been predicted to form from disks of gas and dust around young stars. New observations of these protoplanetary disks offer exciting evidence for planet formation in action. Speaker: Anjali Tripathi

Beyond Point-And-Shoot Morality: Why Cognitive (Neuro)Science Matters for Ethics

source: New York University    2012年5月3日
Joshua Greene, John & Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Department of Psychology, Harvard University

Abstract: Does the "is" is of empirical moral psychology have implications for the "ought" of normative ethics? I'll argue that it does. One cannot deduce moral truths form scientific truths, but cognitive science, including cognitive neuroscience, may nevertheless influence moral thinking in profound ways. First, I'll review evidence for the dual-process theory of moral judgment, according to which characteristically deontological judgments tend to be driven by automatic emotional responses while characteristically consequentialist judgments tend to be driven by controlled cognitive processes. I'll then consider the respective functions of automatic and controlled processes. Automatic processes are like the point-and-shoot settings on a camera, efficient but inflexible. Controlled processes are like a camera's manual mode, inefficient but flexible. Putting these theses together, I'll argue that deontological philosophy is essentially a rationalization of automatic responses that are too inflexible to handle our peculiarly modern moral problems. I'll recommend consequentialist thinking as a better alternative for modern moral problem-solving.

探索13-4講座：手機，你怎麼都不會出錯? / 葉丙成副教授

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心      2015年5月3日
我們常常有這樣的經驗，在電梯或地下室裡用手機講電話的時候，聲音常常很不清楚或是斷­線。但傳簡訊或是送電子郵件時，卻很少出現訊息錯誤。電機工程師們到底是用什麼樣的方­法讓我們傳遞訊息時幾乎都不會出錯呢？其實這裡面可是大有學問的！仔細想想，正確可靠­的通訊，是我們現代文明的重要基石之一。一旦失去了通訊的正確性，人類的文明生活很有­可能完全崩潰。究竟現代科技，是如何幫助我們提高通訊的正確性和可靠度的呢？我們將揭­開此中奧祕！

講座時間：2015.4.26 下午2點
地點：台灣大學 應用力學研究所 1F 國際會議廳

Inflation: A New Universe is Born with Alan Guth | MIT

source: Harvard University     2014年3月27日
Almost 14 billion years ago, the universe burst into existence. In the first fleeting fraction of a second it expanded exponentially, stretching far beyond the view of our best telescopes. Alan Guth developed the theory of cosmic inflation to describe the first moments of the universe. He summarized inflation at an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Big Bang (via detection of the cosmic microwave background). Part of the Observatory Night lecture series at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Capitalism: A Ghost Story - An Evening with Arundhati Roy and Siddhartha Deb

source: The New School    2014年3月27日
The School of Writing (http://www.newschool.edu/writing) at The New School (http://www.newschool.edu) and Haymarket Books (http://www.haymarketbooks.org) present a reading and conversation with Siddhartha Deb, and acclaimed novelist and essayist Arundhati Roy on the occasion of the launch of her new book Capitalism: A Ghost Story (Haymarket Books).

From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country's 100 richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India's gross domestic product. Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India, and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism has subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation.

Arundhati Roy was born in 1959 in Shillong, India. She studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She has worked as a film designer and screenplay writer in India. Roy is the author of the novel The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize. The novel has been translated into dozens of languages worldwide. She has also written several non-fiction books, including The Cost of Living, Power Politics, War Talk, An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, and Public Power in the Age of Empire. Roy was featured in the BBC television documentary Dam/age, which is about the struggle against big dams in India. A collection of interviews with Arundhati Roy by David Barsamian was published as The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile. She is a contributor to the Verso anthology Kashmir: The Case for Freedom. Her newest books are Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers and Capitalism: A Ghost Story, published by Haymarket Books, and Walking with the Comrades, published by Penguin. Roy is the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize.

Siddhartha Deb, who teaches creative writing at The New School, is the author of two novels: The Point of Return, which was a 2003 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and An Outline of the Republic. His reviews and journalism have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, The Nation, New Statesman, n+1, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is also the author of The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India.

John L. Tishman Auditorium (U100), University Center
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 7:00 pm