Thursday, April 17, 2025 3:30 P.M. via Zoom
Gregory Koger, Professor of Political Science
Abstract: one of the core questions of politics is how political rights can coexistwith majority rule. Parliamentary obstruction is an interesting case of an endogenous but persistent minority right. Over the last century, the right to filibuster in the U.S. Senate has not just survived, it has grown into a more powerful veto than ever. In this talk, I will explain why senators have not eliminated this right, and identify the likely conditions for reform.
Thursday, February 13, 2025 3:30 P.M. via Zoom
Traci Ardren, Professor of Anthropology
The archeology of childhood has shown that research is possible on even the most ephemeral aspects of ancient human lives if we ask the correct questions of the material record. Children are now visible members of ancient societies and their impact on the physical environment in which they lived can be identified. Using archeological data from the Tequesta society situated at the mouth of the Miami River, this talk suggests the human predilection for sugar facilitated a unique relationship between children and fruit trees.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Thursday, November 14, 2024 3:30 P.M. via Zoom
Olga Korotkova, PhD Professor of Physics
Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) is the latest discovered physical property of a light field. After three decades of intense research, it is now leveraged in optical communications, imaging, and sensing. At the same rate, OAM characterization and exploitation in random light is still far from being exhausted. We offer a comprehensive matrix-based framework for unified description of OAM and coherence states of light. On doing so, we invoke a number of ideas from polarization optics. In particular, the concepts of orbitalization ellipse, Stokes parameters, Poincaré sphere, and OAM degree of coherence will be introduced in close similarity with their polarization counterparts. We will also discuss several relating applications, e.g., OAM-dependent speckle imaging.
Thursday, October 17, 2024 3:30 P.M. via Zoom
Mark Rowlands, PhD Professor of Philosophy
The mythical figure of Sisyphus has featured prominently in philosophical discussions of the meaning of line. Condemned by the gods to roll a rock up a hill, every time he reached the summit the rock would roll back down, and Sisyphus would have to begin again. Sisyphus features both as an exemplar of a meaningless life and as an allegory for human life. The challenge posed by Sisyphus is this: a Sisyphean life is meaningless, and our lives are recognizibly Sisyphean. In this talk, I shall explain - with a little help from a dog named Shadow - how to solve this challenge.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Thursday, February 15, 2024 3:30 P.M. via Zoom
Steven Safren, PhD Professor of Psychology
Depression in the context of chronic medical illness is highly prevalent and not only causes significant distress and impairment in and of itself, but also affects one’s ability to manage one’s illness. This can be particularly problematic for in HIV because managing HIV involves needing to remain engaged in HIV primary care and take medicines daily for the rest of one’s life. Generally, health psychology interventions do not address mental health comorbidity. The present talk will describe the development and testing of cognitive behavioral therapy for adherence and depression (CBT-AD) and its successful application in HIV both in U.S. and international trials. Additionally, it will highlight selected related work following a similar model of addressing both behavioral health and health promotion via cognitive behavioral interventions.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 3:30 P.M. via Zoom
Berit Brogaard, PhD Professor of Philosophy
The basis of perception is the processing and categorization of perceptual stimuli from the environment. Much progress has been made in the science of perceptual categorization. Yet there is still no consensus on how the brain generates perceptual experiences from sensory input and perceptual categories in long-term memory. In this talk, I argue that perceptual categorization is highly variable across perceivers due to their use of different perceptual strategies for solving perceptual problems they encounter, and that the perceptual system structurally adjusts to the strategies that are most successful. I call this view "perceptual pluralism."
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more inforamtion, contact Rose Flemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Thursday, October 26, 2023 3:30 P.M. via Zoom
Massimiliano Galeazzi, PhD Professor of Physics
X-rays from outer space allow us to study high energy phenomena in the universe, such as black holes, supernova explosions, and to track the evolution of the universe. However, X-rays cannot penetrate Earth's atmosphere, so X-ray telescopes must be launched in space.
This talk will present an overview of NASA's sounding rocket program used to send telescopes in space, with focus on the work done by the University of Miami X-ray Astrophysics group. In the past 10 years, UM has sent 4 suborbital rockets in space through the highly successful DXL campaign, and a new telescope, called LXT, has just been approved by NASA for launch in 2026.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more inforamtion, contact Rose Flemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 3:30 P.M. via Zoom
David Kling, Professor of Religious Studies
A minor figure in the historical record, William Weeks (1783-1848) is best known for his vehement opposition to Charles G. Finney's "New Measures" revivalism and William Miller's prediction that the world would end with the literal return of Christ in 1843 or 1844. Overlooked by historians are his many contributions as an educator, including his tenure as headmaster of Morris Academy in Litchfield, Connecticut (1815-18). When John Brown enrolled at the academy in 1816, Litchfield was already an abolitionist and anti-slavery center. In this presentation, I explore the shared theological convictions of Weeks the educator and Brown the agitator. As we will see, these convictions lie at the root of John Brown's "war on slavery."
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more inforamtion, contact Rose Flemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Thursday, April 20th, 2023 3:30 P.M. via Zoom
Viviana Díaz Balsera, PhD, Professor of Spanish
Michelle Bowman Underwood Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
The presentation will offer an overview of the Franciscan missions in La Florida and the Indigenous peoples who engaged most intimately with the friars. The talk will specifically address extant Spanish-Timucua religious imprints, co- produced at the height of missionary activity by two Franciscans and unacknowledged multilingual Timucua intellectuals. Recent breakthroughs in the field are providing contemporary scholars access to English translations of the Timucua versions of these imprints. Timucua is the first Native American language in present United States to have been recorded in Latin script.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more inforamtion, contact Rose Flemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Thursday, March 23, 2023 3:30 P.M. via Zoom
R. Stephen Cantrell, PhD, PROFESSOR AND CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
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A convergence of concepts from game theory, ecological theory, and mathematics combine to explain how resource matching can convey evolutionary advantage across a range of modeling formats. In this talk we will discuss how this convergence emerged historically and how it consequently leads to predictions of evolutionary advantage in spatially heterogeneous and either temporally constant or seasonal habitats. Some interesting questions in perception, learning and memory emerge when seasonality is considered.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more inforamtion, contact Rose Flemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Thursday, March 23, 2023 3:30 P.M. via Zoom
R. Stephen Cantrell, PhD, PROFESSOR AND CHAIR, DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
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A convergence of concepts from game theory, ecological theory, and mathematics combine to explain how resource matching can convey evolutionary advantage across a range of modeling formats. In this talk we will discuss how this convergence emerged historically and how it consequently leads to predictions of evolutionary advantage in spatially heterogeneous and either temporally constant or seasonal habitats. Some interesting questions in perception, learning and memory emerge when seasonality is considered.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more inforamtion, contact Rose Flemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Thursday, September 15, 2022 3:30 P.M. via Zoom
Gail Ironson,MD,PhD, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY
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After a brief overview of theories of happiness, Dr. Ironson will present findings examining prediction to survival of several core constructs of positive psychology in two cohorts (in the Landmark nationwide study over 6 years, and in an HIV positive cohort over 17 years). The core constructs covered are positive emotions, optimism, meaning in life, and aspects of spirituality.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Thursday, February 24, 2022, 3:30 P.M.
via Zoom
Shigui Ruan, Professor of Mathematics
Understanding the periodic reoccurrence of influenza is very helpful in designing successful vaccine programs and introducing public health interventions. However, the reasons for seasonal influenza epidemics are still not clear. In this talk, we introduce a structured evolutionary epidemiological model of influenza A drift and show that the model has periodic solutions due to bifurcations. This demonstrates that influenza A has an intrinsic tendency to oscillate due to the evolutionary and/or immunological changes of the viruses.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Thursday, November 18, 2021, 3:30 P.M.
via Zoom
Otávio Bueno, Professor of Philosophy
We may think that photographs and films represent the objects they are about because they look like these objects. It is the real likeness between them that secures the images’ accuracy. We may think that the same happens with microscopic images. It is the real likeness between micrographs and the objects in the sample that grounds their faithfulness. This is not so. It is the real unlikeness between objects and images, whether scientific or not, that makes these images work.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 3:30 P.M.
via Zoom
Mihoko Suzuki, Professor of English
My talk will discuss two early modern European observers of Japanese society a century apart: the Portuguese Jesuit Luis Frois (1532–97) and the German physician and scientist Engelbert Kaempfer (1651–1716). By juxtaposing these texts and considering the different historical contexts in which they were written, both for the European authors and the Japanese society which they took as their subject (in the late 16th century Japan’s political order was yet unsettled, while at the end of the 17th century, Japan was unified under the Tokugawa shogunate), I will arrive at a comparative analysis of these early modern European encounters with Japan.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Wednesday, March 31st, 2021, 3:30 P.M.
via Zoom
Francisco Raymo, Professor of Chemistry
Fluorescence has evolved from an intriguing observation by a curious astronomer to an established analytical method for basic research and biomedical diagnostics. The lecture will provide an overview of the main contributions in the development of this fascinating field and highlight some of its many applications.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Wednesday, April 7th, 2021, 3:30 P.M.
via Zoom
Michael Miller, Professor of History
The history of rivers has been the subject of increased attention in recent decades, mostly as a tale of engineering and environmental change or as river biography in the guise of national history. In this talk, Michael Miller takes a different approach, asking how Marne history, and property disputes over “who owns the river,” catch unexpected understandings of French connections to their past, and how the built river landscape reveals the complementarity between modernity and tradition in modern France.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 3:30 P.M.
Beaux Arts Gallery at the Lowe Art Museum| 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gable, FL 33146
Ludmil Katzarkov, Professor of Mathematics
Since the beginning of time, people were concerned with solving equations - a rather difficult task. This pursuit has left to many remarkable discoveries - from Galois Theory to Griffiths Intermediate Jacobians. I will explain a new approach to solving algebraic equations based on ideas from physics. Real life applications will be discussed at the end.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 3:30 P.M.
Beaux Arts Gallery at the Lowe Art Museum| 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gable, FL 33146
Mitsu Ogihara, Professor of Computer Science
Developing efficient and effective methods for analyzing natural texts has been an area of active studies in computer science for many years. Since the beginning of the new millennium, two novel technologies emerged, Latent Dirichlet Allocation and WordVec. These techniques enabled processing of natural texts as sets of numbers, making them more amenable to computational analysis. In this talk, I will go over some of the research I have conducted with the use of these techniques for developing insights into document collections, song lyrics, and TV commercials.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Monday, March 18, 2019, 3:30 p.m. (reception to follow)
Beaux Arts Gallery at the Lowe Art Museum| 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gable, FL 33146
Hugh Thomas, Professor of History
King John of England faced huge expenses because of warfare with the French King over territories John had inherited in France. The costs of war led him to extract so much money from his subjects that his barons rebelled against him, forcing him to reluctantly issue one of the most famous documents in history: Magna Carta. Yet John also spent massive amounts of money on hunting, feasting, and other pastimes. This lecture explores his motives for spending on such activities in a time of heavy fiscal pressure.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Thursday , November 29, 2018, 3:30 p.m. (reception to follow)
Beaux Arts Gallery at the Lowe Art Museum| 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gable, FL 33146
Michael H. Antoni, Professor of Psychology, Cooper Fellow
Since various forms of psychological adversity predict poorer health outcomes in women with breast cancer, it is plausible that behavioral interventions that improve skills for adapting to the challenges of cancer treatment may reduce adversity during treatment and improve long-term clinical outcomes. Dr. Antoni will describe an intervention that he developed—cognitive behavioral stress management (CBSM)— and summarize the results of NCI-funded trials showing that CBSM improves psychological adaptation, and modulates biobehavioral processes (neuroendocrine, immunologic/inflammatory) during breast cancer treatment, and appears to influence longer-term clinical outcomes (depression, quality of life, overall survival and disease-free interval) in proportion to initial biobehavioral changes. Ongoing work using briefer formats, cultural adaptations, and remote delivery platforms to increase the reach of stress management to specific cancer populations is presented.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Thursday, October 25, 2018, 3:30 P.M.
Communication International Building, Room 2055 (School of Communication)
Mathematical models can provide insights about the ways populations can be expected to grow, and the ways that movement and spatial effects can influence their growth. This lecture will describe some ideas and results from mathematical population models in an informal and nontechnical way.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 3:30 P.M.
School of Nursing & Health Studies, Room 428
Dr. Patrick A. McCarthy, Professor of English
This lecture will focus on the unorthodox creative process through which James Joyce's last work, Finnegans Wake, gradually developed from his random notes and sketches into one of the masterpieces of modernist literature.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 3:30 P.M.
Beaux Arts Gallery at the Lowe Art Museum| 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gable, FL 33146
Frank Palmeri, Professor of English
Why are some periods favorable to the production of sharp political satire, while others seem more solemn and constrained? This talk investigates the fortunes of radical satire in England in the long nineteenth century and the forces that played a part in its suppression for almost fifty years both in fiction and in graphic forms. The conclusion brings the narrative forward to consider the possibilities for radical satire in the current age.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 3:30 – 4:30 P.M.
Beaux Arts Gallery at the Lowe Art Museum| 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gable, FL 33146
Daniel S. Messinger, Professor of Psychology
The first years of life see the emergence of emotions, language, and social relationships. A dynamic systems perspective suggests that real-time patterns of behavior drive these developments. Guided by this perspective, I explore how new technologies and modeling are revealing the role of interaction in behavioral change.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 3:30 – 4:30 P.M.
Beaux Arts Gallery at the Lowe Art Museum| 1301 Stanford Drive, Coral Gable, FL 33146
Dr. Gregory J. Galloway, Professor,
Department of Mathematics
Aristotle pondered the shape of the earth, and gave compelling physical arguments that it is a sphere. More than two thousand years later, around 1970, Stephen Hawking pondered the shape of black holes, then merely a theoretical possibility, and gave compelling arguments for their shape. We discuss some of the beautiful mathematics behind his findings, and more recent developments concerning "higher dimensional" black holes.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at 3:30 p.m.
Location: Shalala Student Center – Grand Ballroom East
Professor Neil Johnson,
Department of Physics
Abstract: The future Web-of-Things will feature collections of interacting driverless cars, hybrid human-machine systems and social-media enhanced technologies. So what could possibly go wrong?
This talk looks at this issue, making connections to systems as diverse as fruit-fly larvae and the ultimate “wet” complex system: the human brain. The National Science Foundation predicts that the development of Cyber-Physical systems will "drive innovation and competition in sectors such as agriculture, energy, transportation, building design and automation, healthcare, and manufacturing”, hence their practical and scientific importance.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 3:30 – 4:30 P.M. {refreshments will be provided}
UMHillel| Braman Miller Center for Jewish Student Life |1100 Stanford Drive
Michael Mccullough, Professor of Psychology
For 25 years, I have worked toward a psychological understanding of humans’ propensities for revenge and forgiveness. For the past ten of those years, I have sought to take natural selection and the computational theory of mind seriously. Doing so has led to surprising insights and new kinds of clarity about how revenge and forgiveness operate in human affairs.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information, contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Monday, November 14, 2016, 3:30 – 4:30 P.M. {Reception to follow}
Shalala Student Center | Ballroom East|
J Tomas Lopez,
Professor of Art & Art History
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Rethinking Barthe’s concept of ‘Studium’ and ‘Punctum’ within four portfolios of photographic work during the past three years. In ‘Studium’, the picture plane is approached as a problem of composition and not in a calculated attempt to shock. If an audience is conditioned to anticipate a surprise – it rejects the more contemplative image.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information. contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Tuesday, April 14, 2016, 3:30 – 4:30 P.M. {Reception to follow}
Miller Center Auditorium, Judaic Studies Center, Merrick 105
Hermann Beck,
Professor of History
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Contrary to the assumptions of previous historiography, a proliferation of anti-Semitic attacks occurred already weeks after Hitler became chancellor. We examine the nature of these attacks and the reaction of German society to Nazi brutality and ask why there was so little opposition to anti-Semitic violence on the part of German society and elites at a time when resistance still seemed possible.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information. contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 3:30 – 4:30 P.M. {reception to follow}
Wesley Gallery| 1210 Stanford Drive (across from the Lowe Art Museum)
Robert Casillo,
Professor of English
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The myth of Venice as an ideal republic has been celebrated not only by Venetian historians and political theorists but by numerous non-Venetian observers extending from the Renaissance Florentines to John Ruskin and beyond. By contrast, Ezra Pound in his Cantos portrays Venice not as a model republic but rather as a usurious oligarchy. Pound’s version of the “black myth” of Venice at once parallels and builds upon a distinguished English and especially American tradition of political and historical writing, whose most important exemplars include John Adams, Brooks Adams, William Roscoe, and James Fenimore Cooper.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information. contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
Monday, December 7, 2015, 3:30 – 4:30 P.M. {reception to follow}
Abess Center, Ungar Building, Room 230C/D.
Dr. Harvey Siegel,
Professor of Philosophy
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The Evolution/Creationism-Intelligent Design controversy has bedeviled public school science education in the United States for nearly MO centuries. On the scientific merits, the question should have been resolved long ago. The fad that it hasn't been suggests that more is at stake than the scientific merits of the opposing views. In this talk I briefly review the history, argue that the oontrcwersy is best seen not just in scientific but rather also in broadly cultural terms. and that the educational issue is best resolved by focusing on belief. What exactly should science teachers expect their fundamentalist students to believe?
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information. contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
October 29, 2015 3:30-4:30PM
Roger Leblanc
Chair and Professor of Chemistry
The life of an academic researcher is ternary, balancing between teaching, research and a personal life. Teaching offers many challenges, but these are greatly outweighed by the benefits of being a mentor. Through the years, it has been a privilege to have so many students pass through my lab and contribute to what has been an ever-changing study of biophotophysical properties. Keeping up with the ebb and flow of research requires constant acclimation to modern advances. Sustaining a career in research directs one down many different paths. While research and mentoring tend to tip the scales, it is the personal side of an academic researcher that helps to maintain balance.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021 or rglemaud@miami.edu
February 20, 2014 at 4:00 p.m at the New Student Activities Center, Room 306
Professor Rafael Nepomechie, Department of Physics
In this non-technical talk (no equations!) we shall take a brief historical tour of some famous physicists and their remarkable simple models, which have guided our understanding of the world.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information. contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
December 3, 2014 at 3:30 p.m. at the McLamore Dining Room, 3rd Floor of the Jenkins Building (School of Business)
Professor David Janos, Department of Biology
A potential world phosphate fertilizer shortage underscores the need for efficient phosphorus acquisition by crops. In contrast, very low soil phosphorus availability is overcome by rain forest plants. This talk will reveal their secret. (Please see attached poster).
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021 or rglemaud@miami.edu
March 5, 2013 at the Lowe Art Museum
Professor Anne Cruz, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
The challenging life choices of a Spanish noblewoman who rejected marriage and the convent to travel instead to Protestant England as a self-appointed missionary seeking martyrdom.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information. contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
April 10, 2013 at the Lowe Art Museum
Professor V. Ramamurthy, Department of Chemistry
Life as a scientist can be challenging and rewarding at each stage – from learning as a student to guiding research as a professor. After 4 decades of experience in 4 institutions, I conclude that the joy of doing science is self-defined and so is success in life as a scientist.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021 or rglemaud@miami.edu
November 6, 2013 at 3:30 – 4:30 p.m
Professor Amie L. Thomasson, Department of Philosophy.
By observing the world it seems we can only learn what is the case, not what could be or must be the case. So how can we come to know these modal facts? And how can we understand what is being said when we make modal claims? These are the questions Professor Thomasson will address
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021 or rglemaud@miami.edu
October 17, 2012
Dr. Harold Wanless
Professor and Chair of Geological Sciences
February 2, 2012 at the Lowe Art Museum
Professor Michelle Wachs Galloway, Department of Mathematic
Abstract: The field of combinatorics can be described as the art of counting. This deceptively simple sounding activity employs elegant and sophisticated techniques to enumerate the discrete configurations that occur in mathematics, science, engineering, and everyday life. In this talk we will give some illustrative examples, including examples from my own research.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information. contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
April 4, 2012 at the Lowe Art Museum
Roger Leblanc
Chair and Professor of Chemistry
Abstract: While studying root structure of tropical trees, I was surprised to find that leafcutter ants are important in the root ecology of tropical trees.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021 or rglemaud@miami.edu
November 15, 2011 3:30-4:30PM
Dr. Risto Hilpinen
Professor of Philosophy
Aristotle divided existing things into those that exist by nature and products of art. The talk will explore this distinction and what is involved in making artifacts.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021 or rglemaud@miami.edu
February 12, 2010 at the College/Wesley Gallery
Professor Don Spivey, History Department
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information. contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
February 18, 2010 at 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM CAS Gallery
Professor Guido Ruggiero, History Department
“Looking for Love: Italian Renaissance Prostitution Reconsidered” by Guido Ruggiero, Professor and Chair Department of History at the CAS Wesley Gallery, 1210 Stanford Drive, UM Gables Campus. A fascinating and engaging look at relationships during the Italian Renaissance.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021 or rglemaud@miami.edu
March 12, 2009
The College/Wesley Gallery
Professor John Paul Russo, English and Classics Departments
Examining the crisis in the humanities as a consequence of technological society, the proliferation of visual media, relationalism and the erosion of the individual, and the so-called decline of the West.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information. contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021; rglemaud@miami.edu.
April 16, 2009 at the College/Wesley Gallery
Professor Annette La Greca, Department of Psychology
Addressing the impact of natural disasters (and other traumatic events) on children's functioning. Risk and protective factors that play a role in children's adjustment postdisaster will be discussed, as well as interventions to help children and families in the aftermath of disasters.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021 or rglemaud@miami.edu
September 18, 2009 at the College/Wesley Galler
Professor Colin McGinn, Philosophy Department
Exploring the role and status of the 'common man' in post-war British literature and philosophyCooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021 or rglemaud@miami.edu
September 24, 2009 at the College/Wesley Gallery
Professor Carol C. Horvitz, Biology Department
Will discuss how transitions of individuals among different stages and environments during the life-cycle determine the age pattern of mortality in plants. These studies suggest a new way to understand the observed leveling-off of death rates at old ages in humans.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021 or rglemaud@miami.edu
October 23, 2009 at the College/Wesley Gallery
Professor Angel Kaifer, Chemistry Department
This lecture looks at one the most basic yet spectacular actions in science, using everyday situations as examples.
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021 or rglemaud@miami.edu
November 20, 2009 at the College/Wesley Gallery.
The Charlotte Guyard incest case of 1766 was a cause célèbre, a shock, and an embarrassment. But it was also the stuff of literature; nothing in the eighteenth century sold better than such “romances of real life.”
Cooper Fellows Lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Pavia garage. For more information contact Rose Glemaud at 305-284-4021 or rglemaud@miami.edu
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