Humanity is being confronted as never before by both natural and human-made challenges, from climate and health to social justice and artificial intelligence. In this year's lectures, distinguished faculty around campus address the courage, fortitude and imagination necessary to meet these challenge and, we hope, overcome them.
Fall 2023 Lecture Schedule
September 26, 2023, 4pm | Duncan Hall McMurtry Auditorium
Presenters
Nancy Niedzielski, Associate Professor, Department Chair, Linguistics
Title: "The Strange and Amazing Resilience of Spoken Soul: A Linguistic Account of Dialect Persistence through Time"
Jim Elliott, Professor, Department Chair, Sociology
Title: "Why Social Inequality Matters to Resilience"
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November 14, 2023, 4pm | Duncan Hall McMurtry Auditorium
Presenters
Moshe Vardi, Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering, University Professor, Computer Science
Title: "Lessons from COVID-19: Efficiency vs Resilience"
Thomas Miller, Associate Professor, BioSciences
Title: "Ecological Resilience Through Mutualism"
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Spring 2024 Lecture Schedule
March 26, 2024, 4pm | Fondren Library Kyle Morrow Room
Presenters
Dominic Boyer, Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director, Center for Coastal Futures and Adaptive Resilience
Albert Pope, Gus Sessions Wortham Professor of Architecture
Title: "Climate Resilience and Urban Design"
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April 9, 2024, 4pm | Duncan Hall McMurtry Auditorium
Presenters
Danielle King, Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences
Title: "Employee resilience and stigma at work"
Lacy M. Johnson, Associate Professor of Creative Writing
Title: "Disaster as Rupture, Resilience as Resolution"
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**A reception with refreshments will follow each lecture**