The Grey Nuns Community Hospital was facing a deadly COVID-19 outbreak when registered nurse Nick Beil turned to his colleagues from a century ago for advice on how to persevere through a catastrophic pandemic...
Read the CBC story here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/notes-from-nurses-past-edmonton-rn-turns-to-history-for-covid-19-guidance-1.5838753
The University of Alberta’s celebrated fake-science buster, Timothy Caulfield, has turned to his brother, U of A printmaker Sean Caulfield to help fight the COVID-19 “infodemic.” Read about their joint project in this Folio article https://www.folio.ca/art-project-aims-to-make-viewers-look-twiceand-think-twicebefore-sharing-covid-19-misinformation/
Climate Change narratives are sometimes described as "Apocalyptic." What is an apocalytic narrative? How do they operate? What role are they playing in contemporary climate change debates? Interview with Dr Glen Fairen, Religous Studies, University of Alberta. hear the interview: https://anchor.fm/medscitech/episodes/Apocalyptic-Narratives-and-Climate-Change-eau49n
Ideas about Neanderthal Technology are changing! Hear Professor Pamela R. Willoughby, Chair of the Department of Anthropology, discuss how recent discoveries are challenging old preconceptions: https://anchor.fm/medscitech/episodes/Neanderthal-Technology-eau4g4
Learn how embarrasssment over a near-miss with an asteroid prompted NASA's recent proposal for a Planetary Defense Telescope. Mattia Sorgon interviews Historican of Science, Professor Robert Smith (Previously broadcast on CJSR RAdio): https://anchor.fm/medscitech/episodes/Why-is-NASA-creating-a-Planetary-Defense-Telescope-eau4hk
Arrival is the third film in the series Bring on the Extraterrestrials currated by Dr. Robert Smith (History & Classics) for Metro Cinema. Bring on the Extraterrestrials explores how filmmakers at various periods and from different perspectives, have tackled questions about the existence, nature, and significance of extraterrestrial life. By engaging with the truly alien in the company of these film-makers we will also sharpen our sense of what it means to be truly human. (This term the series is running in parallel with HIST 496/696.)
Arrival will be showing at the Metro Cinema on Wednesday February 5th at 7pm, introduced by Dr. Smith.
Dr. Robert Smith (History and Classics) is interviewed about the film Arrival for the Metro Cinema's February podcast (at around 12 minutes into the podcast): https://anchor.fm/owen-armstrong/episodes/Metro-Cinema-Presents----Close-Up---February-eaatrr
Why does form matter? Why, given the urgency of the contemporary moment, attend to artistic form at all? This talk will track debates on artistic form in the long 20th century, attending to both the politics and pedagogies of form, in order to propose a distinction between art on ecology and art that is formed ecologically. Giving theoretical and art historical background for this distinction, this talk argues for ecological ethics that take the question of aesthetic form seriously in the context of art on -- and in -- the Anthropocene.
Date: January 17, 2020
Time: 12-2 PM (Talk from 12-1PM; Discussion from 1-2PM)
Location: Arts-Based Research Studio, 4-104 Education North, University of Alberta
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Natalie S. Loveless is an associate professor in the department of Art and Design (History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture) at the University of Alberta, where she also directs the Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory. Loveless is the author of How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation (2019, Duke University Press), which examines debates surrounding research-creation and its institutionalization, paying particular attention to what it means – and why it matters – to make and teach art research-creationally in the North American university today
Read the story: https://www.folio.ca/u-of-a-historian-keeps-close-eye-on-nasas-new-james-webb-space-telescope/
