John Whittier-Ferguson, National Poetry Month Panel on "Difficulty" (pt. 1 of 3)
Date:
April 4, 2012
Running Time:
11:55
April is poetry month, and at the University of Michigan poetry is abu
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The Author's Forum Presents: The Institute for Taxi Poetry
Date:
April 10, 2012
Running Time:
76:25
Solly Greenfields, the first of the taxi poets, has been shot dead.
Sandra Waxman: Wizards of Word-Learning: Linguistic and Conceptual Foundations to Infants’ Stunning Success
Date:
April 12, 2012
Running Time:
81:40
Human infants are wizards of word-learning. This talk will describe the conceptual and linguistic capacities that underlie their success.
On the University of Michigan, the Peace Corps, and the Enduring Bonds of Students and Teachers
Date:
March 28, 2012
Running Time:
77:26
Former UM undergraduate student and current UM professor Brian Arbic will describe his experience as a United States Peace Corps volunteer teacher in Libe
On the Death Instinct and Creativity: Freud, Yeats, Joyce, and Us
Date:
March 23, 2012
Running Time:
65:19
A talk by Paul Schwaber, Professor of Letters at Wesleyan University, a practicing psychoanalyst, and author of The cast of characters: A reading of Ulyss
John Rickford: African American Vernacular English and the Black/White Achievement Gap in American Schools
Date:
March 22, 2012
Running Time:
81:20
The persistent Black/White achievement gap in Education has been a source of concern for many years.
Fires in the Mind: A conversation with Kathleen Cushman and Shari Saunders
Date:
March 21, 2012
Running Time:
87:29
What does it take for young people to get really good at something?
Digital Books and Flying Cars: Libraries as Collateral Damage
Date:
March 14, 2012
Running Time:
81:35
Peter Brantley discusses the wild and chaotic publishing environment of today, and why actions of publishers are rational, even as they threaten to destroy trad
The DAAS Zora Neale Hurston Lecture of the Humanities Featuring Farah Griffin
Date:
March 13, 2012
Running Time:
80:00
The Department of Afroamerican and African Studies was pleased to present The Zora Neale Hurston Lecture of the Humanities featuring Farah Griffin who is a Will
Marcel Danesi: The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Mental and Cultural Life Lecture
Date:
March 8, 2012
Running Time:
58:34
Puzzles have existed since the dawn of history. From riddles and anagrams to today’s Rubik’s Cubes, sudoku, and TV game shows, it seems that humans have engaged in this sort of activity since they became conscious beings. Why?
