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GLOBES Scholar Series - Multispecies Ethnography and Epidemiological Puzzles

Dr. Genese Sodikoff gave a talk on Friday April 20 as part of the GLOBES Scholar Series: Talks Intersecting Environment & Society. Her research has focused on labor hierarchies, biodiversity and conservation, human-animal relations, and extinction events in Madagascar. Her current research in Madagascar focuses on bubonic plague outbreaks and funerary practices. She is the author of "Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere" and the editor of "Anthropology of Extinction: Essays on Culture and Species Death."

Power Lines and the Power of Lines: Electricity, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Thinking

The Reilly Center hosted Jennifer Lieberman, an assistant professor of English at the University of North Florida on February 8-9, 2018. Dr. Lieberman is the author of Power Lines: Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882-1952. On Thursday February 8th she will held a workshop, titled Strategies for Interdisciplinary Writing and Publication, followed by a talk on Friday, Power Lines and the Power of Lines: Electricity, and Interdisciplinary Thinking.

Click here for more information on the workshop and here for more information on the talk. 

Upcoming Conference

In 2009, Isabelle Bour and Judith Zinsser published a partial translation of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics. Since 2014, faculty and students at the University of Notre Dame have worked to complete the translation, the completion of which they will celebrate at a conference April 26-28. 

The conference will feature talks, presentations, and discussions of the text, its philosophical and historical context and significance, and ways of incorporating Du Châtelet’s philosophy into undergraduate teaching.

Click here for more information and here to register. 

Reilly Center Partner with Aeon Magazine

The Reilly Center and Aeon Magazine have formed a new strategic partnership that will allow Center faculty, staff, students, and alumni/ae to reach Aeon's global audience of over one million unique users per month. The partnership formally began Tuesday, June 13, 2017 with an article from outreach coordinator Dr. Jessica Baron titled "White coats and mild manners: how to style a good doctor" and acting director Phil Mirowski will release an article later in June about the citizen science movement. Read more >

 

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