lectures/ideas

2016-07-08

Not Yet Over the Rainbow: contemporary barriers to LGBT+ equality in the legal profession

source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016年2月3日
Date: Tuesday 2 February 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speakers: Claire Fox, Sarah Hannett, Daniel Winterfeldt
Chair: Dr Chris Thomas

Drawing on a mix of personal experience and professional insight, speakers from the City, the bar and the bench will discuss contemporary barriers to the advancement of LGBT+ people in the legal profession and how those barriers may be overcome.
Claire Fox is a family practitioner at Pump Court Chambers, Co Chair of the Bar Lesbian and Gay Group and sits on the Equality and Diversity Committee of the Bar Council.
Sarah Hannett (@SarahHannett) is a Barrister at Matrix Chambers.
Daniel Winterfeldt is Head of International Capital Markets at CMS Cameron McKenna LLP and is founder and Co-Chair of the InterLaw Diversity Forum.
Chris Thomas is Assistant Professor of Law at LSE.
LSE Law (@lselaw) is an integral part of the School's mission, plays a major role in policy debates & in the education of lawyers and law teachers from around the world.

Iconoclash: Trafficking Cultural Materials: Appropriation of Mankind's Property

source: New York University 2016年5月16日
NYU Washington, DC welcomed Douglas Boin, Tess Davis and Iris Gerlach, who discussed trafficking as the irreversible appropriation of cultural properties which contribute to humanity’s richness. Their destruction and, to no lesser degree, their trafficking destroy invaluable foundations in the self-awareness of mankind’s history and development. How can reproductions replace the fundamental contribution of the originals? How does the growing demand for antique cultural treasures impact preservation and protection? How does private ownership relate to common property in terms of U.N. standards? Alexander Nagel moderated the discussion.

Anthony Leggett 2016 Summer Lecture Series: Topological Superconductors

Harvard restores its famed Glass Flowers

source: Harvard University 2016年5月17日
Harvard’s Glass Flowers, the famed Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, have returned to display in a refurbished gallery, which shows the iconic collection in new light — literally. The collection, which includes more than 4,000 models, was created by Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, glass artists from Dresden Germany, over five decades beginning in 1886. Their astonishing accuracy can again be seen after the refurbished gallery reopens in the Harvard Museum of Natural History on May 21.

Picasso, pottery and plants: Hidden rules governing the development of n...

source: The Royal Society 2016年5月12日
The Croonian Lecture 2016, our premier lecture in the biological sciences, was this year presented by Professor Enrico Coen CBE FRS.
He talked on how recent advances in 3D imaging, molecular genetics and computational modelling reveal the rules by which plants self-construct.
Filmed: 6.30pm - 8.30pm on Tuesday 10 May 2016 at The Royal Society, London.
https://royalsociety.org/events/2016/...

Gender Equality with Iris Bohnet

source: The RSA 2016年6月14日
Gender equality with Iris Bohnet. Gender equality is a business imperative, but unconscious bias can hold us back. De-biasing people’s minds has proven difficult. Iris Bohnet, professor of public policy at Harvard University, demonstrates the tools we need to eliminate gender-based inequality, from classrooms to boardrooms, and offers new research-based solutions for improving businesses, governments and people’s lives.
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Advanced Characterization Techniques by Krishanu Biswas & N. P. Gurao (IIT Kanpur)

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source: nptelhrd 2016年1月27日
Advanced Characterization Techniques by Dr. Krishanu Biswas, Prof.N. P. Gurao, Department of Metallurgy and Material Science, IIT Kanpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

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