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Fall 2019

Fall 2019 / UIC Lectures

The Data of Disaster: Understanding Climatizing Surveillance in Post-Maria Puerto Rico

February 13, 2020

Nearly two years have passed since Hurricane María made landfall in Puerto Rico, yet its effects are still reeling through the islands. Rather than assisting with recovery, government agencies are…

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Fall 2019 / UIC Lectures

Transforming Learning Spaces

February 13, 2020

The basic blueprint of the physical classroom has not changed all that much in over a century, even as new teaching methods and approaches, new technologies, and new interdisciplinary insights…

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Fall 2019 / UIC Lectures

Making Feminist Documentaries Across Continents

February 13, 2020

Award-winning Venezuelan filmmaker Alexandra Hidalgo theorizes her experience collaborating with Venezuelan editor, Cristina Carrasco, on making The Weeping Season, a feature documentary about Hidalgo’s father’s 1983 disappearance in the Amazon.…

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Fall 2019 / UIC Lectures

Natural History of the Sixth Extinction in Ann Hamilton’s the common SENSE

February 13, 2020

Ann Hamilton’s 2014 the common S E N S E presented an extensive collection of animal images and objects from the natural history and library collections of the University of…

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Science as Experience: A New Approach to Science Communication

February 13, 2020

Dr. Megan Halpern draws on Dewey’s theory of aesthetic experience to develop a model that can reshape how we research, practice, and evaluate science communication. Drawing on her work in…

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Tobacco Control: A sticky, complex problem

February 13, 2020

Tobacco use is the number one preventable cause of death in the United States. However, the structural, interpersonal and personal factors that contribute to tobacco use are complex and require…

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