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Events Calendar: December 2012

EQUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
Kendra Bischoff
Monday December 03, 2012 | 12:00 -01:30 PM CERAS 204



STANFORD HUMANITIES CENTER EVENTS
Amitav Ghosh: "China and the Making of Modern India: A Story of Fantasy, Abuse, and Recovered Memory"
Monday December 03, 2012 | 06:00 -07:30 PM Cemex Auditorium Knight Management Center



THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE MIDDLE AGES
Authentic Experience? Figuration, Rhetorical Effects, and the Question of Discernment Niklaus Largier (German, UC Berkeley)
Monday December 03, 2012 | 06:00 -08:00 PM Languages Corner



CITIES UNBOUND
Time and the City-- Presentation and discussion of works in progress.
Tuesday December 04, 2012 | 05:30 -07:15 PM Humanities Center



VISUALIZING COMPLEXITY AND UNCERTAINTY: EXPLORING HUMANISTIC APPROACHES TO GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION
Erica Savig "A Customized Approach for Visual Exploration of Complex Biological Data"
Wednesday December 05, 2012 | 04:00 -06:00 PM SHC Boardroom



COGNITION & LANGUAGE
Adam Vogel: Emergence of Gricean Maxims from Multi-agent Decision Theory
Thursday December 06, 2012 | 03:00 -04:00 PM Cordura Hall 100



RECOMBINATIONS: ART, MEDICINE, BIOSCIENCE
Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu: A Journey of Mastery and Mystery
Thursday December 06, 2012 | 05:30 -07:30 PM Stanford Humanities Center Board Room



INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO CONSCIOUSNESS
Ned Block
Friday December 07, 2012 | 11:30 AM -02:00 PM Barwise Room



REPRESENTING TIME IN HISTORIOGRAPHY, ANCIENT AND MODERN
Leonard Susskind, "Time, Theoretical Physics, and Popular Audiences"
Friday December 07, 2012 | 01:00 -02:15 PM Stanford Humanities Center



ETHICS & POLITICS, ANCIENT & MODERN
David Charles (Oxford): Aristotle on Practical and Theoretical Knowledge
Monday December 10, 2012 | 03:15 -05:00 PM tba



All events take place at Stanford University, unless otherwise noted.


The Calendar of Events lists events sponsored and co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. For a more comprehensive listing of university-wide events, see the Stanford Event Calendar.