October 2010 ULS
Welcome to the University Lecture Series website for October.
Lectures this month include:
TWO WEEKS OF PEACE - lectures and events from sept 21 through october 6
Oct. 1 - AB Lectures and AB Special Events Present: Big Freedia
Oct. 8 - International Festival 2010: Borders: Crossings, Conflicts, Connections / Keynote Lecture: Enrique Morones, internationally acclaimed human rights activist / Border Angels: Border Realities and Immigration Today
Oct. 11 - College of Engineering Leadership Speaker Series / Aris Candris, CEO, Westinghouse Electric Company / Meeting the World's Energy Needs in a CO2-Constrained Environment: The Role of Nuclear Power
Oct. 14 - John Perkins, NY Times Bestselling Author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man / Economic Hit Man Details His Experiences Exploiting Latin America & the Middle East
Oct. 18 - Paul Goodman, Carnegie Mellon University / Dabbawallas (This lecture is in conjunction with the weekend course India Today Oct. 22-24)
Oct. 18 - CENTER FOR THE ARTS IN SOCIETY / Adam Hodges and Andrew Johnson, Carnegie Mellon / Panel Title: Regime (of Language) Change: How to Retool the War on Terror
Oct. 19 - Karen Alderman Harbert, U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy / A National Discussion about America’s Energy Future
Oct. 21 - CENTER FOR THE ARTS IN SOCIETY / James F. Brooks, President, School for Advanced Research / Connecting with Indigenous Communities through Indigenous Art Collections
Oct. 22 - Introductory Lectures for India Today: Economics, Technology and People / Sunil Wadhwani, iGATE Corporation: An Entrepreneur’s perspective on India: Industry, Innovation and Education / Nico Slate, Carnegie Mellon: India: Unity, Diversity, History
Oct. 25 - Victor M. Bearg Science and Humanities Scholars Speaker Series / Douglas Vakoch, Director of Interstellar Message Composition, SETI Institute, and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies / Aesthetics for Aliens: Art, Music, and Extraterrestrials
Oct. 25 - Center for International Relations and Politics Program / Serhiy Kudelia, National University (Ukraine) / U.S.-Russia "Reset": Trading Democracy for Security?
Oct. 26 - Julio Cesar Perez Hernandez, Harvard University Loeb Fellow'02, Chair Cuban Chapter CEU and INTBAU, Architect and Urban Planner / Sustainable Urbanism