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The Department of Art & Art History
proudly presents the installation...
Ernest Jolly: Re-imagine
Re-imagine is an immersive installation that envelopes the viewer through all senses. The installation invites the viewer into total self reflection and meditation.
Exhibition dates: February 13-March 7, 2012
Location: Art Department Gallery in the Fine Arts building at SCU
Artist talk: February 27, 12 p.m. in the gallery
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
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February 15, 2012; 5:00-6:00pm; Kennedy Commons; Dr. Jack Cronin, M.D., Santa Clara University - "Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Genetic Testing"
Dr. Cronin's seminar will address some of the ethical, legal, and social issues related to genetic testing, especially for inherited cancer syndromes like familial breast and colon cancer.
Dr. Cronin received his BA and phD from UC Berkeley in Genetics and Biological Anthropology, where he subsequently served as a Professor. After teaching at both Harvard and Stanford, Dr. Cronin returned to medical school at UCSF studying both Genetics and Pathology. In recent years he has taught and serverd as a consultant for a variety of institutions in the Bay Area. He is widely published in both journals (including Nature) and books.
March 7, 2012 - Dr. Andy Marshall, Department of Anthropology, University of California-Davis - "Ecological and historical perspectives on Bornean orangutan populations"
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Pure pulsing energy with dizzying emotional intensity and a kaleidoscope of dance and movement is back by popular demand! Images 2012 is a stunning production of eclectic original jazz, modern, and classical ballet, featuring some of Santa Clara’s finest performing artists.
February 9-12, 2012, Th 7:30pm, Fr/Sa 8pm, Su 2pm
Mayer Theatre
Regular - $15, SCU Seniors - $10, Students - $10
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Check out the 2012 Sociology Newsletter!
http://www.scu.edu/cas/sociology/newsletter/index.cfm
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The Santa Clara University Archaeology Reserach Lab and the Santa Clara County Archaeological Society invite you to a lecture by Dr. Edward M. Luby, San Francisco State University.
A New Look at San Francisco Bay Area Shellmounds
One of the most significant features in the San Francisco Bay Area archaeological landscape are the impressive shellmounds that once ringed the shores of the bay. Although shellmounds are depicted in local museum exhibits and written about in textbooks aimed at school children, the evidence used to support these interpretations is not as secure as i should be. In this presentation, recent research using one-hundred year old museum collections housed at UC Berkeley will be discussed in order to take a new look at the use and function of these important sites.
Thursday, January 12, 2012; 7:30pm; Daly Science 207
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Check out the 2011 Chemistry & Biochemistry Newsletter!
http://www.scu.edu/cas/chemistry/newsletter/index.cfm
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Check out the the Fall 2011 Religious Studies Newsletter!
http://www.scu.edu/cas/religiousstudies/news/perspectives/
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Stop in for holiday teats and learn about the resources we have to offer:
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
11:30 am to 2:00 pm
Benson 207
In compliance with the ADA 504 , please direct your accommodation requests to the Office for Multicultural Learning at least 72 hours prior to the event at (408) 551-7152.
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Festival of Lights
Directed by Ryan James Brandau
Friday, December 2 & Saturday, December 3, 7:30pm
Mission Church
Take a journey through the Christmas story with musical gems from the Renaissance through today, including Biebl's Ave Maria, and Bach's exuberant setting of Magnificat. The evening will culminate with the students' traditional candlelit rendition of Silent Night.
"An unforgettable evening of holiday music!"
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Viewing Room A, First Floor (food and drink allowed) Library and Learning Commons
Seating is limited. Please rsvp to jai@scu.edu by Oct 25, 2011.
Professor David Gray, Associate Professor in Religious Studies, who teaches and researches in the areas of Asian religious traditions and Tibetan Buddhism, introduces us to the religious origin and inspiration of much of Tibet’s artistic tradition, and to the role of art, including images of the Dalai Lama, as transformative and powerfully subversive forces in traditional and contemporary contexts.
Co-panelist Tenzin N. Tethong is Distinguished Fellow, Tibetan Studies Initiative, at Stanford University. He teaches in the HistoryDepartment and the Continuing Studies Program. He is engaged in the effort of Ho Center for Buddhist Studies to establish a chair in Tibetan Buddhist Studies, and was part of the team that established CCARE (Center for Compassion & Altruism Research and Education), at the Stanford School of Medicine. He is one of the founding members and current President of The Dalai Lama Foundation, an international organization dedicated to the promotion of peace and ethics. He also serves in an advisory capacity for the local Tibetan Community Center project, and recently launched “Tibet in Exile – Fifty Years” an online documentation effort to commemorate the last fifty years in exile of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people.
JAI creates an intellectual frame of reference for examining and fostering artistic processes that are critically bound to issues of justice.
www.scu.edu/cas/jai
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Fall Lunch Lecture: Black California with Apara Nanda
10/25/11 11:45-1:00pm Nobili Dining Room
RSVP or wgst@scu.edu
Co-sponsored by English and Ethnic Studies
Black California is the first comprehensive anthology celebrating black writing through almost two centuries of Californian history. In a patchwork quilt pieced from poetry, fiction, essays, drama, and memoirs, this anthology traces the trajectory of African American writers. Each pieve gives a voice to the resonating rhythms that created the African American literary tradition in California. These voices speak of dreams and disasters, of heroic achievement and tragic failures, of freedom and betrayal, of racial discrimination and subsequent restoration all setting the pulse of the black California experience.
Books will be avilable for purchase at this event.
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:30 Hubert Dreyfus (University of California - Berkeley) “Kierkegaard’s Monotheism Without God”
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 David Wood (Vanderbilt University)“Kierkegaard Vivant”
12:15-2:00 Lunch
2:00 -3:30 Vanessa Rumble (Boston College)“’When the Child Is to be Weaned’: Kierkegaard and the Trauma of Transcendence”
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45- 5:15 Jonathan Lear (The University of Chicago)
Registration (includes coffee and lunch) $35 Students $10.
SCU Students, Faculty and Staff: Free
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Tuesday, November 8, O'Connor 106
Speaker: Wang-Chiew Tan, UC Santa Cruz/IBM
Title: Splash: A Platform for Analysis and Simulation of Health
Abstract: Health decision support systems typically assist doctors and patients making treatment decisions based on knowledge gleaned from research studies, pharmaceutical data, disease models, epidemiological simulations, and more. But health also depends on decisions made by law-makers, community leaders, and people in advertising, transportation, agriculture, education, sanitation, and government. Because health decisions frequently require understanding complex interactions of diverse systems across many disciplines, no one system or knowledge base can incorporate all models or data related to health. Consider obesity: models of transportation, eating habits, shopping choices for food, exercise, and metabolism need to be combined with geographic, store location, and population data to play "what if," asking, for instance, how community obesity measures would change if a healthy but inexpensive store opens near an obesity "hot spot." Splash?Smarter Planet Platform for Analysis and Simulation of Health? is a framework for combining heterogeneous simulation models and data. By enabling interoperability and reuse of models and data, Splash enables experts from different disciplines to collaborate to exploit their combined knowledge. The resulting composite simulation models can be used for deep predictive analytics, enabling "what if" analyses that cut across disciplines and supporting complex health decisions when expertise from a single domain does not suffice.
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Tuesday, November 1, O'Connor 106
Speaker: Cornelia Van Cott, University of San Francisco
Title: Chicken nuggets and the Frobenius number
Abstract: Suppose chicken nuggets are sold in packages of size 6, 9, and 20. With these package sizes, if you wanted to order, say, 25 chicken nuggets, you would be out of luck. After some investigation, one will discover many different sizes which also cannot be ordered; the largest such size is 43. You cannot order 43 nuggets, but you can order N chicken nuggets for all N>43, given the package sizes of 6, 9, and 20. This problem, the so-called Chicken Nugget Problem, is a special case of a classical question first investigated by Frobenius and Sylvester in the nineteenth century. The more general question goes as follows: given a finite set A of positive integers, what is the largest number which cannot be written as a nonnegative integral linear combination of elements in A? This number, denoted g(A), is called the Frobenius number of A. We will discuss the special case where A contains only two integers. We will also consider related results, including Sylvester's Theorem which counts the integers that cannot be represented as combinations of integers in A.
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The Religious Situation in China: an Insider's Perspective
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
12:00 Noon
Benson Parlor C
Brown Bag Lunch
Professor Zhao Dunhua served as the head of the Department of Religious Studies at Peking University during a time of rapid social and political change in China (1994 to 2009). In this talk he will discuss the challenges of dealing with politicians, religious leaders, scholars, public intellectuals, and ordinary believers of major religious groups.
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We are pleased to announce the upcoming presentation by Dr. David Cohen, Santa Clara University
12 October 2011
5:00 – 6:00 pm.
Kennedy Commons
Dr. Cohen will present
“Foragers, Farmers, Missionaries and Traders: Cultural and
Environmental Change on the Fringe of the Kalahari Desert”
This talk will address the cultural dynamics of contact and changing socio-economic landscapes between San-speaking foragers, ancestral Bakgalagadi and Tswana farmers, and European missionaries and traders in southeastern Botswana on the fringe of the Kalahari Desert, c. 800-100 years ago. Archaeological materials and historic sources inform on the persistence of identities, the development of economic relationships, and environmental change in a microcosm representative of southern Africa’s global entanglements. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
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We are pleased to announce the residency of Prashant Olalekar, S.J., who will be on campus from Sept 28 to October 12 as a Justice and the Arts Initiative (JAI) Guest Artist and Bannan Visitor. Fr. Olalekar, is the founder of InterPlay India, which organizes Global Peace Exchanges with opportunities interact through structured play and improvised interrelatedness with the poor, the differently-abled and other marginalized groups.
"The unique joy of interacting as playful equals is beyond words." -Fr. Prashant Olalekar, S.J.
Please join us at either of these public, free events, to learn more and experience some examples of how InterPlay is done. RSVPs for groups are appreciated.
TUES, OCT. 4 at NOON
A lecture & demonstration of Prashant's work in the areas of embodied spirituality.
It will be held in Studio A of the Music and Dance Facility, on the corner of Franklin and Lafayette Streets.
Your students are welcome to join us too. [12:00-1:15 pm]
THURS, OCT. 6 at 7 pm Prashant will offer a workshop for the community in conjunction with St. Clare's Parish just footsteps away from campus on the corner of Lafayette and Lexington. [7:00-9:00 pm]
If you would like to meet Fr. Olalekar or have him visit any of your classes during his upcoming residency, please contact us at jai@scu.edu
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Alumni Show
Eneri Abillar
Megan Diddie
Matthew Moore
Monica Van den Dool
September 19-October 14, 2011
Artist talk with Eneri Abillar: October 12, 4:45-5:15 p.m. in Fine Arts room F
Art Department Gallery
Gallery Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
If you have a disability and require accommodation, please contact (408) 554-5483.
Image of artists' work: (Left to right) Monica Van den Dool, Eneri Abillar, Matthew Moore, and Megan Diddie
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We are proud to introduce The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama at Santa Clara University. The University truly appreciates this opportunity to host a selection of paintings, photographs, sculptures, and installations following the exhibit's five-year world tour. The collection of internationally renowned artists you see on display have provided creative interpretations of the ideals represented by the Dalai Lama, such as the power of spirituality, impermanence, universal interconnectedness, and peace.
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