Public Lectures
The Graduate School Public Lectures
Visionary academics and personalities discuss an array of timely topics,
including technology integration in the classroom and
public discourse on climate science.
All lectures take place at 7:30 p.m. at Kane Hall.
Jan. 28
Connected learning
Mizuko Ito
Walker Ames Lecturer
This event is sold out. Wait list attendees will be accommodated on a space-available basis at 7:15 p.m.
Children today are engrossed in technology like never before, native to a world where endless information rests at their fingertips. Professor Ito’s connected learning approach investigates the platforms, policies, and technologies that can best leverage the online habits of students in the classroom to realize progressive educational goals.
About Mizuko Ito
Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, examining children and youth’s changing relationships to media and communications. Her co-authored book, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Youth Living and Learning with New Media describes new opportunities for interest-driven learning fueled by games, social media and digital tools. In Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design, Ito and her colleagues in the Connected Learning Research Network map out how education can embrace today’s technology to make meaningful learning available to all young people. She is co-founder of Connected Camps, a benefit corporation that provides online creative learning opportunities for kids in all walks of life. is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, examining children and youth’s changing relationships to media and communications. Her co-authored book, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Youth Living and Learning with New Media describes new opportunities for interest-driven learning fueled by games, social media and digital tools.March 1
Dynamics of disbelief: Science, society and social welfare
Naomi Oreskes
Jessie and John Danz Lecturer
This event is sold out. Wait list attendees will be accommodated on a space-available basis at 7:15 p.m.
For a century, scientists have known about the impact of human activity on the earth’s climate systems. But even as the science coalesced and forecasts became facts, a strong sense of disbelief and skepticism has been embraced by some political leaders and private citizens.
In this talk, professor Naomi Oreskes, co-author of Merchants of Doubt, will explore the roots of misinformation that have sowed doubt in climate science and the implications for society and the common good.
About Naomi Oreskes
Naomi Oreskes is the author of both scholarly and popular books and articles on the history of earth and environmental science, including The Rejection of Continental Drift (Oxford, 1999), Plate Tectonics: An Insider’s History of the Modern Theory of the Earth (Westview, 2003) and The Collapse of Western Civilization (Columbia University Press, 2014). For the past decade, Oreskes has been primarily interested in the science and politics of anthropogenic climate change. Her 2010 book, Merchants of Doubt, How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming, co-authored with Erik M. Conway, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the Watson-Davis Prize from the History of Science Society. The film version was released in late 2015.UWAA and UWRA members receive advance registration for the series! Not a member? Join today!
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