Feminism Now Symposium: Part 4: Jennifer Kennedy-Liz Linden
Highlighting the work of emerging scholars, including graduate and postgraduate students, Feminism Now presents groundbreaking contemporary research reflecting new directions and perspectives in feminist scholarship on a wide range of feminist issues and topics.
Feminism Now Symposium: Part 6: Karen Shimakawa
Highlighting the work of emerging scholars, including graduate and postgraduate students, Feminism Now presents groundbreaking contemporary research reflecting new directions and perspectives in feminist scholarship on a wide range of feminist issues and topics.
Feminism Now Symposium: Part 7: Claire Grace
Highlighting the work of emerging scholars, including graduate and postgraduate students, Feminism Now presents groundbreaking contemporary research reflecting new directions and perspectives in feminist scholarship on a wide range of feminist issues and topics.
Feminism Now Symposium: Part 8: Patricia Ann Grisafi
Highlighting the work of emerging scholars, including graduate and postgraduate students, Feminism Now presents groundbreaking contemporary research reflecting new directions and perspectives in feminist scholarship on a wide range of feminist issues and topics.
Feminism Now Symposium: Part 9: Anna Fisher
Highlighting the work of emerging scholars, including graduate and postgraduate students, Feminism Now presents groundbreaking contemporary research reflecting new directions and perspectives in feminist scholarship on a wide range of feminist issues and topics.
Feminism Now Symposium: Part 10: Zetta Elliott
Highlighting the work of emerging scholars, including graduate and postgraduate students, Feminism Now presents groundbreaking contemporary research reflecting new directions and perspectives in feminist scholarship on a wide range of feminist issues and topics.
Feminism Now Symposium: Part 11: Johanna Burton
Highlighting the work of emerging scholars, including graduate and postgraduate students, Feminism Now presents groundbreaking contemporary research reflecting new directions and perspectives in feminist scholarship on a wide range of feminist issues and topics.
How It Began: Betty Friedan and the Modern Women's Movement
Muriel Fox discusses the origins of the modern women's movement, her role in the formation of the National Organization for Women (NOW), and her collaboration with feminist activist Betty Friedan. Ms. Fox is a media expert and activist who has remained a leader in the movement for forty-four years. This event took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on April 25, 2009. Video courtesy Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.
The 54th BFI London Film Festival Vodcast Day 2
On the Day 2 of The 54th BFI London Film Festival, we spoke to international filmmakers including Kiran Rao (Dhobi Ghat) and Pernille Fischer Christensen (A Family). The second annual keynote speech was given by Ken Loach, one of the UK's most acclaimed directors. During the event, presented in conjunction with Skillset, Loach encouraged the audience to be the change they wanted to see in the film industry. Mark Romanek, director of Never Let Me Go, gave the first of the American Express Screen
Ken Loach Keynote Speech
The 54th BFI London Film Festival's keynote speech, held in conjunction with Skillset, was given by one of Britain's finest and most revered directors, Ken Loach. Loach spoke eloquently and passionately to the Festival audience about the industry he loves and has invested so much in, and presented a call to action for those who share that love to help protect it from forces of destruction and decay. Loach never shies from sharing the force of his opinions, and provides a rousing and inspiring su
Kepler mission spies the phases of a planet
The Kepler mission is designed to look for Earthlike planets orbiting other stars. Its first scientific result was to see the change in brightness of a star (HAT-P-7) as a Jupiter-sized planet orbits it. This animation shows the brightness change as the planet passes in front of and behind the star.
Blog post explaining all this and more: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/08/06/kepler-works/
Original animation: http://kepler.nasa.gov/media/earlyresults/SaraSeager02-CurveMagn
Authors@Google: Matthew Moseley
Matthew Moseley joined the Authors@Google team in Mountain View on July 9, 2010 to talk about his book Dear Dr. Thompson: Felony Murder, Hunter S. Thompson and the last Gonzo campaign.
About Dear Dr. Thompson:
Sometimes the only thing it takes to change a life is a letter.
While serving a life sentence at Colorado Women's Correctional Facility in Canon City, twenty-five-year-old Lisl Auman wrote an off-chance letter to legendary Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson to complain that his books
Digital Art@Google: James Tunick and Jack Toolin
James Tunick is an artist focused on the intersection of creativity and technology in public spaces, an entrepreneur, and software
developer. He lives and works in New York City. Tunick founded StudioIMC (www.StudioIMC.com), an Outernet technology company that represents an international team of programmers and digital artists.
His work has been featured at Ars Electronica Center and the USF Contemporary Art Museum, and he has curated StudioIMC art shows at the Paley Center for Media and Chels
Authors@Google: Paul Ingrassia
The Authors@Google team welcomed Paul Ingrassia to Google's New York office to discuss his book, "Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster".
"Paul Ingrassia is the former Detroit bureau chief for The Wall Street
Journal. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 (with Joseph B. White)
for reporting on management crises at General Motors, Ingrassia has
chronicled the auto industry for more than twenty-five years. His
latest book, "Crash Course: the American Autom
Holocaust in Film and Literature, Lec 16, German 59, UCLA
Course Description:
German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature is a course that provides insight into the History of Holocaust and its present memory through examination of challenges and problems encountered in trying to imagine its horror through media of literature and film.
About the Professor:
Todd Presner is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies. His research focuses on German-Jewish intellectual and cultural history, the history of media,
Holocaust in Film and Literature, Lec 17, German 59, UCLA
Course Description:
German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature is a course that provides insight into the History of Holocaust and its present memory through examination of challenges and problems encountered in trying to imagine its horror through media of literature and film.
About the Professor:
Todd Presner is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies. His research focuses on German-Jewish intellectual and cultural history, the history of media,
Holocaust in Film and Literature, Lec 18, German 59, UCLA [Finished]
Course Description:
German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature is a course that provides insight into the History of Holocaust and its present memory through examination of challenges and problems encountered in trying to imagine its horror through media of literature and film.
About the Professor:
Todd Presner is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies. His research focuses on German-Jewish intellectual and cultural history, the history of media,
social media netnography presentation IBM information on demand, nov 2010
Word-of-mouth is the key driver of growth. Managing it is the challenge for the future. By observing, facilitating and joining the conversation you can actually lead it. This presentation is about the first step: how to observe conversations on social media.
Social Media for researchers
Social Media for researchers
Video: Fingers detect typos even when conscious brain doesn’t
Media contact: Melanie Moran (615) 322-NEWS melanie.moran@vanderbilt.ed
