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\nLearn about research, creative activities,\u00a0and other scholarly engagement\u00a0by faculty colleagues across campus. Lunch is provided.<\/p>\n

2016 Spotlight<\/h3>\n

Thursday, January 28:<\/strong> 12:00 noon –\u00a0duPont-Ball Library 25L
\n Institutional Change and Tuberculosis Control in Shanghai\u2019s Rural Counties: 1958-2003<\/i>
\nDr. Rachel Core<\/strong>, assistant professor of sociology
\nWhile the system was in place in China\u2019s rural counties from 1968-83, China\u2019s Cooperative Medical System (CMS) was widely attributed with bringing about a decline in infectious diseases. In 1983, the CMS collapsed in much of China, when rural communes were dismantled, which led to backsliding in health indicators; however, this presentation will argue that the CMS in Shanghai\u2019s rural counties did not collapse. Instead, it continued providing tuberculosis control throughout the 1990s.
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Monday, February 22:<\/strong> 12:00 noon – duPont-Ball Library 25L
\nRace, Risk, and Ebola Panic<\/em>
\nDr. Melinda Hall<\/strong>, assistant professor of philosophy
\nDeepening construction of African persons as inherently risky or vulnerable is an unintended consequence of public health discourse in the United States and abroad surrounding risk prevention in the case of Ebola virus disease (EVD). Meanwhile, those in the West conceive of themselves as risk managers of these populations, rather than as vulnerable themselves; this illicit binary feeds into public health management decision-making. In this discourse, race becomes a floating signifier for risk and vice versa. I approach these issues within the context of analyzing risk, risk aversion, and risk analysis philosophically in the framework of deconstruction and post-structuralism.<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 24:<\/strong>\u00a01:00 pm (note time<\/em>)\u00a0–\u00a0Hand Arts Center
\nOpera as Policy in Russia During the Reign of Nicholas I: The First Decade<\/em>
\nDr. Daniil Zavlunov<\/strong>, assistant professor of music
\n1825-1835 was the formative decade of Nicholas\u2019s reign, laying the cultural policy foundation for the remainder of that reign, and charting the course for opera in Russia for the rest of the century. In my presentation, I explore Nicholas\u2019s role as enabler and shaper of opera\u2014the genre to which he assigned a crucial function in the realization of his broader cultural policy. Drawing on new archival documents, I survey the rapidly evolving policies governing the Imperial Theaters system, changes to theater censorship, professionalization of the musical establishment in Russia, and construction of new performance spaces.<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 21:<\/strong> 12:00 noon – duPont-Ball Library 25L\u00a0RSVP<\/a><\/strong>
\nFeaturing Dr. Joshua Eckroth<\/strong>, assistant professor of computer science
\nIterative Abduction<\/span><\/i>
\nIn the field of Artificial Intelligence, abduction is a pattern of inference in which an agent seeks an explanation for an observation or report. Iterated abduction is a variety of abduction in which evidence is acquired and explained over time. The long-term goal is to maintain highly plausible consistent explanations for as much of the evidence as possible. Maintaining plausible explanations can be challenging, particularly when future observations contradict the agent\u2019s beliefs. In this case, some beliefs must be contracted in order to make sense of the observations. We develop a logical formalism for this process as well as a computational implementation.<\/p>\n

2015 Spotlight<\/h3>\n

February 27:<\/b> 12:00 noon – Sage Hall 257
\nExamining Poverty, Homelessness, and Education<\/em>
\nRajni Shankar-Brown<\/strong>, associate professor\u00a0of\u00a0education<\/span>
\nHomelessness is a complex dilemma that annually affects over 3.5 million lives nationwide. Although the United States is considered one of the wealthiest nations in the world, it is estimated that one in three children live in extreme poverty. Furthermore, families with children are the fastest growing segment of the homeless population. In this interactive presentation, Dr. Rajni Shankar-Brown will share pieces of her research on poverty, homelessness, and education. She will discuss the use of bioecological systems theory as a framework to understand child poverty in the 21st century and share the diverse voices of children experiencing homelessness. Her research findings illuminate there \u00a0multifaceted experiences of children living in extreme poverty and explore implications for educational research, policy, and practice.<\/p>\n

March 27:<\/b> 12:00 noon – Rinker Auditorium, LBC
\nSearching for Ukrainian Tangos\u2026.or, everything you wanted to know about Soviet culture, but were afraid to ask.<\/em>
\nMayhill Fowler<\/strong>, assistant professor of History<\/span>
\nMy talk will explain how a summer grant led to the discovery of a fascinating document in a cramped Moscow archive. In 1940 Evgenii Petrov wrote a screenplay called Quiet Ukrainian Night, which told of friendly socialist competition between Ukrainian folk orchestras and a star-crossed love match all neatly resolved by an apparatchik in the Ukrainian Arts Administration. This unpublished and unproduced film offers a lens on my book project, Beau Monde: State and Stage on Empire\u2019s Edge, Russia and Soviet Ukraine, 1916-1941 by tying together several themes, including the search for Ukrainian tangos. In my talk I will explain my book project, the project of writing a book, and what historians do all day in archives.<\/p>\n

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April 17:<\/strong> 12:00 noon – Sage Hall 257
\nThe Branding of Malevich: the Dissemination and Ratification of his Oeuvre in the West<\/span><\/em>
\n Ekatarina Kudryavtseva<\/em>, assistant professor\u00a0of Creative Arts<\/span>
\n I will address the historiographical significance of the way in which the artworks of the Russian painter Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935) circulated in the West. One of the distinctive characteristics of Malevich\u2019s art is its belated incorporation into the Western modernist canon through a network of dealers, gallery owners, collectors, and museum curators who participated in its dissemination and ratification. The goal of my research is to bring this peculiar condition into relief by exploring the role of commercial art institutions in promoting Malevich\u2019s name in the West, and examining the financial as well as art historical impact of this activity.<\/span>
\n Hint: there is little correlation between \u201cquality” and value, because life is so fundamentally unfair.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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