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Spring 2019 / UIC Lectures

Roots and Ruptures: To Teach of Black/Land, Literacies and Placemaking

October 25, 2019

Tamara Butler, assistant professor of critical and community literacies, discusses which practices are required to make place? To address this question, Professor Butlerturns to the ethical, creative, and collaborative practices…

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Spring 2019 / UIC Lectures

The Redistribution of the Sensible: Building an Interdisciplinary/ Interventionist Praxis

October 25, 2019

Zachary Kaiser, assistant professor of graphic design and experience architecture discusses how one participation in the world is determined by how one perceives it, and how one perceives it is…

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Spring 2019 / UIC Lectures

Reimagining First-Year Writing for STEM students as Experiential Learning in Science Studies

October 25, 2019

Marisa Brandt, Teaching Professor in the History, Philosophy, & Sociology of STEM discusses how a first-year writing course can help create 21st century STEM students with foundations for interdisciplinary inquiry?…

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Read more about the article Imagining the past through technical documents and personal accounts: Remote Sensing & Our History
Fall 2018 / UIC Lectures

Imagining the past through technical documents and personal accounts: Remote Sensing & Our History

March 18, 2019

Modern satellite imagery has high spatial resolution, multispectral capability, and high temporal resolution. Early aerial photography was panchromatic, on-demand, and of nominal visual quality. While modern remote sensing research tends…

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Read more about the article Caring about Health Services: Humanities- Driven Healthcare Reform
Fall 2018 / UIC Lectures

Caring about Health Services: Humanities- Driven Healthcare Reform

March 18, 2019

Health services research is a multidisciplinary field that examines access to and quality and cost of health care, focusing on research implementation in the healthcare sector and implications for healthcare…

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Read more about the article How Project Managers Foster Interdisciplinary Communication
Fall 2018 / UIC Lectures / Uncategorized

How Project Managers Foster Interdisciplinary Communication

March 18, 2019

In today’s networked organizations and institutions, project managers must help interdisciplinary teams find effective ways of communicating with each other. Drawing on research conducted for his 2018 bookCommunicating Project Management,…

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Read more about the article Generous Thinking: The University and the Public Good
Fall 2018 / UIC Lectures

Generous Thinking: The University and the Public Good

March 18, 2019

The university stands in a peculiar relationship to twenty-first-century American culture. On the one hand, that culture imagines institutions of higher education to be providers of vitally important credentials for…

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Read more about the article Teaching Islam through Music Videos
Fall 2018 / UIC Lectures

Teaching Islam through Music Videos

March 17, 2019

In this presentation, Professor Mohammad Khalil offers his pedagogical approach to teaching Islam through music videos. He will examine major themes in Islamic thought as presented in devotional music videos…

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Read more about the article Understanding Structural Violence
Fall 2018 / UIC Lectures

Understanding Structural Violence

March 17, 2019

Structural analyses of violence have become a critical component in understanding the resilience of racism and sexist racism in fields traditionally associated with cultural neutrality and objectivity, such as law…

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Read more about the article Breaking Neuro Ground: Literary Neuroscience and the Benefits of Interdisciplinarity
Spring 2018 / UIC Lectures

Breaking Neuro Ground: Literary Neuroscience and the Benefits of Interdisciplinarity

October 22, 2018

In 1959, C.P. Snow famously described the humanities and sciences as “two cultures” separated by a “gap” of “mutual incomprehension.” But in 2018, is this still true? Or, is it…

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