Rebecca Comay. Hypocondria and its Discontents. 2015

source: European Graduate School     2016年5月12日 http://www.egs.edu/
Rebecca Comay is a Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS and a Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, where she also directs the Program in Literary Studies. Additionally, she is an associate member of both the German Department and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Focusing mainly on modern continental philosophy, Comay’s primary research and publications address Hegel, Marx(ism), Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Martin Heidegger, Marcel Proust, contemporary art criticism, trauma and memory, psychoanalysis, and political theology.

Comay received her Bachelors of Arts in Philosophy and Ancient Languages from the University of Toronto and her Master of Arts in Egyptology and Assyriology from Yale University. She returned to the University of Toronto to complete her doctoral studies focusing on the work of Hegel and Heidegger. Her dissertation, "Beyond" Aufhebung": Reflections on the Bad Infinite (1986)––whose “title announces a certain aporia: the ‘beyond,’ of course, is precisely what Hegel claims to have transcended”––“explores Heidegger's attempt to move beyond the recuperative powers of the dialectic” and, subsequently, “inscribes the Heideggerean project within the horizon of speculative idealism.”[1]

Being Human: Perception & The Brain (Ramachandran & Beau Lotto)

source: Philosophical Overdose     2013年3月22日
V.S. Ramachandran and Beau Lotto discuss the brain, the nature of perception and our lived experience of the world, and how it all relates to being human.

Lines of Thought: Understanding Gravity

source: Cambridge University    2016年4月29日
Cambridge University Library is celebrating its 600th anniversary with an exhibition of priceless treasures communicating 4,000 years of human thought. To celebrate, we have made six films on the six distinct themes featured in Lines of Thought. The second film in the series looks at Gravity; by following the discussions of generations of great scientific minds, from Copernicus to Hawking via Newton and Einstein, we begin to understand our place among the stars. To see more of the exhibits in this theme, visit the Virtual Exhibition: https://exhibitions.lib.cam.ac.uk/lin...

Building Resiliency in an Age of Terrorism: Public Health Perspectives

source: Harvard University     2016年4月26日
A series of terrorist attacks — including recent bombings in Belgium — has shaken the public’s sense of security as they go about the most mundane tasks of daily life. Images of carnage at subway stations, restaurants, workplaces, concerts and sporting events have flashed across the world’s social media and traditional news outlets. Afterwards, questions inevitably surface about what could have been done to prevent attacks in the first place, while people are encouraged to carry on with their usual lives. But has the shadow of terrorism become part of that “new normal” and, if so, what are the public health implications? This Forum — which took place a week after the 3rd anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings — asked what makes a society resilient in the face of attacks or perceived threats. Experts in homeland security, psychological resiliency, crisis leadership, and disaster preparedness and response participated.
Presented April 25, 2016, in Collaboration with PRI's The World & WGBH.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.

YCEI's 6th Annual Conference: "The Future of Nuclear Energy"

source: Yale University       上次更新日期：2015年6月4日

Welcome/Keynote Address 42:20
Morning Panel 1:11:53
Luncheon Address 42:37
Afternoon Panel 1:23:48
Closing Keynote 57:02
Technical Presentation 37:12

Battling Drug-Resistant Superbugs: Can We Win? | The Forum at HSPH

source: Harvard University     2014年2月11日
The CDC estimates that at least 2 million people become infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria each year and at least 23,000 people die annually from these infections. Additional risks are posed from other types of organisms once sensitive to antimicrobial medicines and now resistant. This Forum event examined the public health menace posed by antimicrobial resistance and the steps to be undertaken to fight the "superbugs."
Presented by The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health in collaboration with PRI's The World and WGBH on February 5, 2014. Part of The Andelot Series on Current Science Controversies.
Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.

Alma Guillermoprieto on Making Art Out of Fright

source: Harvard University   2016年5月3日
Alma Guillermoprieto is a journalist whose books and essays vividly document modern Latin America for the English-speaking reader.

Guillermoprieto was one of the first to report the massacre at the village of El Mozote in northern El Salvador. Her investigation of this situation involved a journey into rebel-held areas that brought about reprimands by the United States government and press. In 1995, the facts that upheld this work finally came to light. As a freelance writer, she has also covered the Colombian civil war, the Shining Path rebel movement in Peru, the aftermath of the “Dirty War” in Argentina, and post-Sandinista Nicaragua. She is the author of the books Samba (1990), The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now (1994), Looking for History: Dispatches from Latin America (2001), and Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution (2004).

A former South America bureau chief for Newsweek, Guillermoprieto writes in English for the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker and in Spanish for a number of publications in Latin America.

Guillermoprieto was a professional dancer and a member of the National Ballet Company of Mexico prior to beginning her journalistic career in 1978.

探索13-6講座：智慧螢幕 顯遠見、動人心 / 黃彥餘處長

source: 臺大科學教育發展中心    2015年5月20日
"自從Steve Jobs在2007年發表全球第一款智慧型手機後，其操作模式、多功能化的應用領域與­軟體支援，颳起了一陣旋風並大大的改變了人們的生活型態以及作業模式，除了引導出了 許多新興的產業外，許多現有的產業模式也必須進行重整以及轉型。

近年來，智慧型手機已完全覆蓋了人類每日生活的大部分領域，且智慧型手機的變革已跳脫­了以往制式且無趣的架構，慢慢的朝更人性化且更"智慧"的方向發展，在本次講題中，將­娓娓道出智慧型手機的發展以及未來可能的發展方向與雛形，看看智慧型手機如何更擴展人­類的視野並且感動人心"。

講座時間：2015.5.16 下午2點
地點：台灣大學 應用力學研究所 1F 國際會議廳

Tinderbox- India & its Neighbours, with MJ Akbar July 12, 2012

source: Simon Fraser University    2013年1月29日
The Indian Summer Festival in partnership with SFU's Public Square and the SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement
http://www.indiansummerfestival.ca
http://sfuwoodwards.ca/index.php/comm...

Jane Bennett - Powers of the Hoard: Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter | The New School

source: The New School     2011年9月27日
Hosted by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
http://www.newschool.edu/vlc
http://www.veralistcenter.org
Jane Bennett - Powers of the Hoard: Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter

How can objects sometimes be vibrant things with an effective presence independent of the words, images, and feelings they may provoke in humans? This question is posed by Political theorist Jane Bennett delivers the inaugural lecture as the Vera List Center for Art and Politics embarks on a two-year exploration of "Thingness," the nature of matter. In the face of virtual realities, social media and disembodied existences, the center's programs will focus on the material conditions of our lives.

Jane Bennet is a professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University. In her latest book Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke, 2010), she asks how our politics might approach public concerns were we to seriously consider not just our human experience of things but the things themselves. How is it that things can elide their status as possessions, tools, or aesthetic objects and manifest traces of independence and vitality? Following the tangled threads that link vibrant materialities, human selves, and the "agentic assemblages" they form, Bennett examines what hoarders, people who are preternaturally attuned to "things," can teach us about the agency, causality, and artistry in a world overflowing with stuff. Professor Bennet is a founding member of the journal Theory & Event, and is currently working on a project on over-consumption, new ecologies, and Walt Whitman's materialism.

*Location:Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:30 p.m.