Watch: Happy Anthropology Day
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SMU Welcomes Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar William Jordan
Event Dates: March 4 & 5, 2019 Location: McCord Auditorium, 306 Dallas Hall For more information: Email Brian Molanphy Public lecture and seminar details: William Chester Jordan “The First Crusade and Jewish Martyrdom” The lecture sketches out the background to the call for the First Crusade, narrates a few of the major events as context for the main story of the lecture, and then concentrates on what has been and can be learned from the Hebrew and Latin sources for the Jews’ responses. It concludes by raising the question of the appropriateness of the language of trauma to categorize the European phase of the crusade and its impact on the continent’s Jews. Monday, March 4, 5pm McCord Auditorium, 306 Dallas Hall. 2. William Chester Jordan "Crusades and [...]
Find your cause: March 5 is SMU Give Day
March 5, the entire SMU community will come together to give back and celebrate the causes we care about – supporting students, improving cities, educating teachers, fighting for justice, fueling champions – together, the possibilities are endless. Please consider supporting SMU and Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. Dedman College projects: SMU Fund for Dedman College DataFest Hackathon Dedman College Graduate Scholarship SMU Human Rights Program Dedman College Scholars Dean’s Research Council
Event: Feb. 20, Using Spack for Development on ManeFrame II
Event Date: February 20 Location: Fondren Library East Room 110 Time: 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM The Spring 2019 CSC workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization and application specific usage. The topics will cover information useful for researchers to quickly begin to use the advanced compute capabilities provided with the cluster. Registration: https://smu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6fm6rdPms69kvgV Link for more information: http://faculty.smu.edu/csc/documentation/workshops.html
Godbey Lecture Series Presents – Mahatma Gandhi: The Man, the Myth, the Memory with lecturer Professor Rachel Ball-Phillips
Event Date: 2/21/2019 Location: Meadows Museum - Jones Hall Time: 5:15 PM Reception, 6:00 PM Lecture This presentation will explore the life of Mohandas K. "Mahatma" Gandhi on his 150th birth centenary. Gandhi, a larger than life figure, has come to occupy a prominent place in the memories of Indians and people around the world. This presentation will focus particularly on spaces in India that serve as places of memory and commemoration, and the role that the memory of Gandhi plays in contemporary Indian society.
Event: Feb. 19, When “Great” Works Aren’t Good
Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 Location: Screening Room – Greer Garson 3531 (Owen Arts Center) Time: 5:30-6:15 pm A roundtable discussion on the ethics of collecting, preserving, and teaching works of art, literature, and cinema that are politically or culturally problematic. Link for more information: www.smu.edu/filmfest
Event: Feb. 13, Using Version Control on ManeFrame II
Event Date: February 13 Location: Fondren Library East Room 110 Time: 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM The Spring 2019 CSC workshop series will provide a hands-on experience that will guide researchers from the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to advanced parallelization and application specific usage. The topics will cover information useful for researchers to quickly begin to use the advanced compute capabilities provided with the cluster. Registration: https://smu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6fm6rdPms69kvgV Link for more information: http://faculty.smu.edu/csc/documentation/workshops.html