[Physci_undergrad] Fwd: UCLA Colloquium Series Interdisciplinarity and Information

[Inna Gergel]

> Interdisciplinarity and Information
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> A New Campus-Wide Colloquium Series Featuring UCLA Faculty
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> Sponsored by The UCLA Center for Information as Evidence
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> Monday, March 3, 10, 17, and April 7, 5:30-7 pm in Moore Hall 3027  
> with a small reception to follow.
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> Free and open to the public.
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> The talk will also be streamed online live.  Details for the  
> streaming will be updated at the CIE website: www.gseis.ucla.edu/cie.
>
> UPCOMING PANEL:  MARCH 3: GLOBAL CULTURES
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> • Carlos Alberto Torres, Social Sciences and Comparative Education
> • Keith Camacho, Asian American Studies
> • Ramesh Srinivasan, Information Studies
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> MARCH 10: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, PART I: TEMPORALITY
> • Janice L. Reiff, History
> • Robert Fink, Musicology
> • Mark R. Morris, Astronomy
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> MARCH 17: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, PART II: SPATIALITY
> • Diane Favro, Architecture
> • Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Urban Planning
> • Todd Presner, German Studies and Digital Humanities
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> APRIL 7:  THE HUMAN BODY
> • Irma Dosamantes-Beaudry, World Arts and Culture
> • Jeanette Papp, Human Genetics
> • Helen Deutsch, English
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> About the Series
>
> Interdisciplinarity and Information will bring together scholars  
> from across the campus to discuss a range of information-related  
> themes that emerge in the work of several disciplines, and creative  
> and multivariate approaches with which they are addressed. The  
> forum is an occasion for distinguished faculty to reflect upon the  
> interdisciplinary nature of their research and teaching  
> experiences, raise stimulating questions, and explore new research  
> directions.  There are few opportunities to consider information  
> issues simultaneously from the perspectives of the arts,  
> humanities, sciences and social sciences. The panels will provide  
> an open and engaging forum for participants to consider their work  
> and the work of their colleagues from an alternative perspective  
> that otherwise might not be readily available within respective  
> fields.
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> Faculty and students from all departments and disciplines are  
> encouraged to attend.  It is the hope that the audiences and  
> participants will come away with a new outlook on essential and  
> relevant issues and concepts central to the use and consideration  
> of information such as time, space, social relationships, culture,  
> medicine, memory, the environment, and politics.
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>
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> Synopsis of Upcoming Panel, March 3:  Global Cultures
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> There is currently a growing interest to explore the transmission  
> and preservation of knowledge across cultural and ethnic  
> boundaries. The interdisciplinary study of global cultures offers  
> great potential not only to draw local and global communities  
> together, but also to preserve their rich heritage. In the process,  
> scholars continuously find new intersections between diverse fields  
> including anthropology, education, sociology, information studies,  
> and the performing arts.  This panel will address questions such  
> as:  How do Western-dominated and indigenous theories and  
> methodologies relate to one another?  In what ways have scholars  
> abandoned traditional methods of research in favor of an approach  
> that reflects the uniqueness of the cultures at hand? How has  
> emerging technologies empowered or disempowered native cultures?   
> What place do indigenous epistemologies have inside academia?
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> For more information, please visit the Center’s website  
> www.gseis.ucla.edu/cie or contact Dr. Joshua Sternfeld:  
> joshuas at ucla.edu.
>