Wednesday, October 12
Room 100, Hyer Hall, 6424 Robert S. Hyer Lane | 1:00 to 2:00 pm
Afternoon Talk: Andrew Darling, Anthropologist. On November 6, 2009, the remains of 12 Yaqui warriors made their journey home after more than a century of exile in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The Guerreros Yaquis were among 124 men, women and children, who were massacred on Sunday, June 8th, 1902, during the Mexican government’s genocidal efforts against the region’s indigenous people. This talk by Andrew Darling describes the historical circumstances of their death, collection of their remains, and their eventual return home under the aegis of the traditional Yaqui leadership of Río Yaqui. Free and open to the public. For more information visit, http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/ InstitutesCenters/swcenter/Events/Afternoon-Talks/Darling
Thursday, October 13
4:30 pm, McFarlin Auditorium
Lecture by SMU Common Reading Author Bryan Stevenson. Author, Lawyer, and Activist Bryan Stevenson will discuss his book, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, and his work with the many people caught up in the American criminal justice system. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Al & Sadye Gartner Honors Lecture Series, the Friends of the SMU Libraries, the Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, and the Office of Community Outreach.
Thursday, October 13
Reception at 6pm, Reading at 6:30pm Dallas Hall #0306, McCord Auditorium
Award-winning poet Tyehimba Jess and best-selling novelist Bernice L. McFadden visit SMU for Kimbilio Litfest. Join us in Dallas Hall on October 13 at 6:00 pm for a reception, reading and book signing. Jess’s new collection Olio has been called “Encyclopedic, ingenious, and abundant…” by Publisher’s Weekly‘s starred review, and a “daring collection, which blends forthright, musically acute language with portraiture” by Library Journal. McFadden’s Book of Harlan follows a Georgia-born musician who flourishes in New York during the Harlem Renaissance. His music takes him to Montmartre, Paris, where his ambitions collide with history when the Germans occupy the city. For more information visit https://kimbiliolitfest2016.wordpress.com/.
Friday October 14
2-3:30pm in ULEE 303
The Impact of Disadvantaged Peers: Evidence from Resettlement after Public Housing Demolition. Eric Chyn is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia. He specializes in labor and public economics, and more specifically he is interested in understanding the effects of government programs on children. In his talk, he will analyze how households that were displaced by the public housing demolitions that occurred in Chicago in the 1990s affected children in recipient neighborhoods. For more information, please visit http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/ Departments/Economics/SeminarSeries.
Friday, October 14
4 pm HYER HALL RM 204
Manipulative Meaning: Insinuations, slurs & metaphorical insults with Elisabeth Camp. Philosophers and linguists focus largely on cooperative communication, for good reasons. But in many conversations, interlocutors’ interests only partially overlap, and both parties know this. In such contexts, speakers often appeal to indirect or inexplicit forms of communication, like insinuation and metaphor, which provide the speaker with deniability about their meaning and make even resistant hearers partly complicit in the speakers’ meaning. Dr. Camp surveys some key differences in the rhetorical and cognitive effects of antagonistic speech, draw some implications for the theory of meaning, and suggest some ways for resistant hearers to fight back. For more information email pchuard@smu.edu.
SAVE THE DATE: October 20, 2016
McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall 5:00 p.m. Reception, 5:30 p.m. Lecture
Annual Allman Lecture: Fear and Loathing – Political Neuro-Biology and the 2016 Elections. What can burrowing mice and African bonobos tells us about Donald & Ted & Hillary & Bernie? Aristotle famously observed that “man is by nature a political animal” and that “a social instinct is implanted in all men by nature”. A recent twin study concluded that roughly half of the variance in political ideology is attributable to genetic influences. Apparently Aristotle was correct. Join John Alford of Rice University as he delves into the deep ideological divisions that are shaping the 2016 elections. For more information http://www.smu.edu/dedman/dcii.
SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, November 1
Great Hall, Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Hall 6:00-8:00 p.m.
SAS@SMU | The Army. Join us for a wine and cheese reception, followed by a discussion of the army, past, present and future, with Lieutenant-General H.R. McMaster and Colombia University’s Austin Long! The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. Please RSVP to tower@smu.edu or register online http://blog.smu.edu/towercenter/events/sassmu-the-army/.