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Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was one of the earliest tenured African American professors at the University of Chicago.
The Annual George E. Kent Lecture is organized and sponsored by the Organization of Black Students, the Black Student Law Association, and the Students for a Free Society.
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Lewis & Clark's 15th Annual Ray Warren Symposium “Bitter Pills: Race, Health, and Medicine,” was held November 7–9, 2018.
On November 7, Deirdre Cooper Owens, associate professor of history at Queens College, CUNY, gave this keynote presentation titled “How Modern Medicine Was Born of Slavery.”
Presentation description: Cooper Owens explains how the institution of American slavery was directly linked to the creation of reproductive medicine in the U.S. She provides context for how and why physicians denied black women their full humanity, yet valued them as “medical superbodies” highly suited for experimentation. In engaging with 19th-century ideas about so-called racial difference, she sheds light on the contemporary legacy of medical racism.
Welcoming remarks and introductions by Maya Hernández and Jasmine Torres, L&C ’19 and RWS co-chairs.
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Do we deserve second chances? But what if second chances are earned and if so we do we need to do in order to get them? Some of us may never get a second chance in life to do what you could or should have done but did not, for whatever set of reasons. When you get, if you get, make the utmost best of your second chances! #secondchances #divine #blessings
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For years, armed groups have instilled fear in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Hundreds have been killed, and millions are diplaced in the North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
The president has instructed the army to take charge of the two regions for a month.
Soldiers have been given broad powers to conduct searches, make arrests and ban public gatherings.
So will this be enough to stop the violence?
Presenter: Imran Khan
Guests:
Niamh Murnaghan - Norwegian Refugee Council
Patrick Hajayandi - Institute for Justice and Reconciliation
Kambale Musavuli - Center for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa
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Thirty-five years ago string theory took physics by storm, promising the coveted unified theory of nature’s forces that Einstein valiantly sought but never found. In the intervening decades, string theory has brought a collection of mind-boggling possibilities into the lexicon of mainstream thinking—extra dimensions of space, holographic worlds, and multiple universes. Some researchers view these developments as symptoms of string theory having lost its way. Others argue that string theory, although very much still a work in progress, is revealing stunning new qualities of reality. Join leading minds in theoretical physics for a whirlwind ride through the twists and turns of string theory—its past, its future, and what it tells us about the search for the universe’s final theory.
PARTICIPANTS: Marcelo Gleiser, Michael Dine, Andrew Strominger
MODERATOR: Brian Greene
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This program is part of the BIG IDEAS SERIES, made possible with support from the JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION.
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TOPICS
0:00 - Introduction
3:54 - Program introduction
5:40 - Marcelo Gleiser introduction
6:26 - Unification of electricity and magnetism
10:30 - Unification of space and time
13:49 - Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
18:38 - Standard model of particle physics
21:56 - Supersymmetry
26:14 - The Island of Knowledge
32:01 - Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems
34:27 - String Theory explainer film
37:07 - Michael Dine introduction
38:35 - Supersymmetry and the spectrum of particles
42:18 - Large Hadron Collider
44:57 - Extra dimensions of space
50:34 - Dark energy and multiple universes
56:40 - Progress since the 1980s and the future of particle physics
59:55 - Andrew Strominger introduction
1:00:53 - Einstein and black holes
1:03:59 - The black hole information paradox
1:07:30 - Stephen Hawking’s insights into black holes
1:12:00 - Using string theory to understand black holes
1:19:33 - Conformal symmetry
1:22:48 - Andrew Strominger’s view of string theory
CREDITS
- Produced by Laura Dattaro
- Associate Produced by Peter Goldberg
- Editing and Animation by Josh Zimmerman
- Music provided by APM
- Additional images and footage provided by: Getty Images, Shutterstock, Videoblocks, Event Horizon Telescope
- Recorded at NYU Skirball Center
The multiverse hypothesis, suggesting that our universe is but one of perhaps infinitely many, speaks to the very nature of reality. Join physicist Brian Greene, cosmologists Alan Guth and Andrei Linde, and philosopher Nick Bostrom as they discuss and debate this controversial implication of forefront research and explore its potential for redefining the cosmic order. Moderated by Robert Krulwich and featuring an original musical interlude, inspired by parallel worlds, by DJ Spooky.
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Original Program Date: June 13, 2009
MODERATOR: Robert Krulwich
PARTICIPANTS: Alan Guth, Brian Greene, Andrei Linde, Paul D. Miller, Nick Bostrom
Introduction with Brian Greene 00:00
Musical interlude 25:15
Participant Introductions 33:49
How do we know there was a Big Bang 35:50
How do we get from a single universe to a multiverse. 47:14
Is the universe expanding and how fast? 01:00:25
What does six dimensional space look like? 01:08:00
How do we know there is a multiverse? 01:13:48
Bryce DeWitt on the multiverse concept 01:24:40
What if we assume the universe is the simulation hypothesis? 01:37:14
This program is part of The Big Idea Series, made possible with support from the John Templeton Foundation.