scholarly journals The University of Liverpool Evolutionary Anthropology Seminar Series: Transcending the restrictions of the COVID ‐19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Timbrell ◽  
Carys Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
The University

scholarly journals The University of Liverpool Evolutionary Anthropology Seminar Series: transcending the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Timbrell ◽  
Carys Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

This article describes the University of Liverpool Evolutionary Anthropology Webinar Series 2020-2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we adapted the long-running series into an openly accessible webinar programme, hosting speakers every week over Zoom from all over the world. We found that several benefits came from the reorganisation of the seminar series into a webinar series, including a more diverse demographic of both speakers and audience participants, as well as a dramatic increase in participant numbers due to the accessibility of online webinars.

New Nationalisms: Sources, Agendas, Languages. An Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Siegfried Huigen ◽  
Dorota Kołodziejczyk
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Modes Of Operation ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
The University ◽  
Government Level

New Nationalisms: Sources, Agendas, Languages, a seminar organised by Academia Europaea Wrocław Knowledge Hub, the University of Wrocław and the Lower Silesian University, on 25–27 September 2017, inquired into the problem of the rise of right-wing populism in Central Europe. Manifest in responses to the refugee crisis of 2015 and to the Brexit referendum in 2016 across Europe, the populists successfully mobilised constituencies with anti-EU and anti-immigration sentiments. These attitudes, in turn, stimulated the emergence of nationalist agendas on an unexpected scale, moving radical right-wing parties with a pronounced nationalist programme from the margins, much closer to real political power. As part of the Relocating Central Europe seminar series, our reflection focused on that region, attempting to answer fundamental questions about the sources, purposes and modes of operation of the new nationalist impetus in political programmes, including those fostered at government level.

scholarly journals Graduate Student Professional Development: A Case Study

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 625-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hector Eduardo Pérez ◽  
Kent D. Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Course Evaluations ◽  
First Year ◽  
Tropical Plant ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
Research Leadership ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
The University

Graduate students within the Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa developed a program that addressed their concerns regarding career enhancement and planned a Professional Development Seminar Series. Students identified topics related to enhancing their overall graduate experience and professional development, such as ethics in research, leadership in graduate school and beyond, interviewing skills, and writing critically for publications. Experts from the University of Hawaii and business communities presented 35- to 40-minute seminars on the various topics. Expectations of the students included participation in discussion sessions and completion of a critical thinking exercise after each presentation. Course evaluations revealed that the new seminar series was considered to be as effective as established courses within the department. On a scale from 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree, students learned to value new viewpoints [4.2 ± 0.8 (mean ± SD)], related what they learned in class to their own experiences (4.5 ± 0.8), and felt the course was a valuable contribution to their education (4.4 ± 0.9). Students suggested offering the course during fall semesters to incoming students, reinforcing of the critical thinking exercise, and making the course mandatory for first-year graduate students.

Music, Discourse

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-130
Author(s):  
Thomas Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Seminar Series ◽  
The University

Rummaging further among Barthes’s critical metaphors, Chapter Three examines some of his essays on music (and on Proust on music) from the 1970s and from 1980 alongside his seminars on the ‘Charlus-Discourse’ and a set of unpublished teaching notes for a seminar series that took place at the University of Rabat between 1969 and 1970. Proust’s novel emerges here as ‘musical’, not in the sense that its author is a particularly adept commentator on music (Barthes insists that he is not), but by virtue of the diffractions, vacillations and melodic differentials of intensity and desire by which, according to Barthes, its sentences and its discourses are inhabited.

scholarly journals 2017 Sowing the “CEED”s of a more diverse biomedical workforce

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (S1) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Colleen A. Mayowski ◽  
Kaleab Z. Abebe ◽  
Natalia E. Morone ◽  
Doris M. Rubio ◽  
Wishwa N. Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Health Care Research ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
Leaky Pipeline ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Research Workforce ◽  
The University

OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: The need to diversify the biomedical research workforce is well documented. The Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) program at the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE) promotes success and helps seal the “leaky pipeline” for under-represented background (URB) biomedical researchers with a purposefully designed program consisting of a monthly seminar series, multilevel mentoring, targeted coursework, and networking. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Over 10 program years, we collected survey data on characteristics of CEED Scholars, such as race, ethnicity, and current position. We created a matched set of URB trainees not enrolled in CEED during that time using propensity score matching in a 1:1 ratio. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Since 2007, CEED has graduated 45 Scholars. Seventy-six percent have been women, 78% have been non-White, and 33% have been Hispanic/Latino. Scholars include 20 M.D.s and 25 Ph.D.s. Twenty-eight CEED Scholars were matched to non-CEED URB students. Compared with matched URB students, CEED graduates had a higher mean number of peer-reviewed publications (9.25 vs. 5.89; p<0.0001) were more likely to hold an assistant professor position (54% vs. 14%; p=0.004) and be in the tenure stream (32% vs. 7%; p=0.04), respectively. There were no differences in Career Development Awards (p=0.42) or Research Project Grants (p=0.24). DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Programs that support URB researchers can help expand and diversify the biomedical research workforce. CEED has been successful despite the challenges of a small demographic pool. Further efforts are needed to assist URB researchers to obtain grant awards.

scholarly journals Communicating Protest Movements: The Case of Occupy

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Kavada
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
The University ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Diverse Cultures

How do you communicate a protest movement? And how do communication practices shape its character and power relations?  Based on a view of communication as constitutive of protest movements, this talk considers these questions as two sides of the same coin. The focus lies on the Occupy movement and particularly on its use of digital media. Characterised by a belief in direct participation and a rejection of central leadership, Occupy emerged through a bottom-up process of organizing that spanned different platforms and physical places, from Facebook pages to public squares. The process of constructing the collective involved the creation of communication sites and foundational texts, and their interlinking. This process was influenced by the rules, affordances and proprietary character of media platforms and physical spaces, as well as the diverse cultures and strategies of the activists using them. A closer look at this process sheds light on the power relations within the movement and particularly on five sources of communication power. These range from the power to create communication sites and texts to the power to access or link them together. The picture that emerges is complex, revealing a movement with both centralizing and decentralizing dynamics. Ultimately, it was the balance between these opposing dynamics that determined both the emergence of the movement and its decline.Acknowledgement: This contribution is the podcast of a talk Anastasia Kavada gave in the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI)'s Research Seminar Series on February 25, 2015, at the University of Westminster.

scholarly journals What’s in a Seminar?

Eos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Keisling ◽  
Raquel Bryant ◽  
Nadia Fernandez ◽  
Mariela Arredondo ◽  
Nigel Golden
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

Graduate students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst redesigned their departmental seminar series to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion, and other institutions could do the same.

scholarly journals Phantasmagoria of Urban Spectacle: Walter Benjamin and Media Theory Today

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaeho Kang
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Seminar Series ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Media ◽  
Urban Spectacle ◽  
Modern Experience ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

This contribution is the audio recording of a talk that Jaeho Kang gave at the University of Westminster in the Communication and Media Research Institute's (CAMRI) Research Seminar Series on October 29, 2014.Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is one of the most original and perceptive German literary and cultural critics, but his unique insight into the profound impact of the media on modernity has received a good deal less attention. Based on my book, 'Walter Benjamin and the Media: The Spectacle of Modernity' (2014, see http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745645209), I will talk about Benjamin’s critical and provocative writings on the intersection between media and modern experience with particular reference to phantasmagoria, aesthetic public space, and urban spectacle. In so doing, I will clarify Benjamin’s distinctive and enduring contribution to contemporary media studies.

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