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Event: Feb. 15 Intersections of Creativity and Interdisciplinarity A Panel Discussion and Interactive Event

Event Date: February 15, 2017 Location: Meadows Museum Time: 6:00 p.m. Creativity approaches the innovative, novel, and valuable in multiple fields, encompassing education, design, science, leadership and many others; it is by definition an interdisciplinary endeavor. It is in this spirit, we are pleased to offer three panelists who are embracing creativity in a variety […]

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Event: Feb. 13 What Makes a Better Life for Farmed Animals? Some Philosophical Considerations

  Event Date: February 13 Location: Hyer Hall, Room 200 Time: 4:00 p.m. About the speaker: Paul B. Thompson holds the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University. He has written widely on food ethics, and has served both industrial commodity producer groups and the American Humane Association in an […]

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Event: Feb. 10 The Musical Mind: A Workshop

Event Date: February 10, 2017 Location: Hughes-Trigg Atrium and Meadows School of the Arts 2020 Time: 10am-12pm in Hughes Trigg, 1:30-3:30pm and 4-6pm in Meadows   Join invited speakers, Lawrence Zbikowski (U. of Chicago), Robert S. Hatten, (U.T. Austin), and Jerrold Levinson (U. of Maryland) as they present a day long workshop on the ‘musical mind’. Link […]

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Save the date: 3/30/17 Chimurenga Music: Concert and Conversation

Event Date: March 30, 2017 Location: Hughes-Trigg Student Center Theater Time: 7pm This event brings together African musicians and historians with SMU students and faculty. This public event of interspaced conversation and song will involve two Zimbabweans who have put mbira music on the world stage, Dr. Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited Band and Professor Mhoze […]

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Request for Proposals for Annual Fellows Seminar, 2017-2018

The Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute is now soliciting proposals from faculty for an Annual Fellows Seminar for the 2017-2018 Academic Year. For application details, please see: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Programs/AnnualFellowsSeminars. Deadline is March 3rd, 2017.

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Event 12/8: Statistics Tutorial: A Minimum Distance Approach

Event Date: 12/8/16 Location: The Forum, Hughes-Trigg Student Center Time: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. with refreshments Join Dr. Cornelis Potgieter (Statistics) for a tutorial providing an overview of some of the tools often used in statistical analysis. These tools include methods of parameter estimation and statistical inference, methods which can often be formulated using a minimum […]

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Event: Data Mining Tutorial: Methods and Tools

Event date: November 30, 2016 Location: Vester Hughes Auditorium, Caruth Hall 147 Time: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Join Dr. Michael Hahsler (Lyle) as he presents a tutorial on Data Mining. The event will cover an introduction to data mining, the data mining process and the core methods used by data mining professionals and highlight how […]

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Event on 12/5- Data is Made Up of Stories: University-wide Futures from the Digital Humanities Series Direct Encounters with History: Summer of Darkness and the Performance of Archive

Event Date: December 5, 2016 Location: The Forum, Hughes Trigg Student Center Time: 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. RSVP: https://smudigitalhumanities.eventbrite.com Andrew and Anindita Basu Sempere present a case study of the Summer of Darkness iOS app, a digital humanities project that tells the story of “The Year Without Summer” through real-time notifications, weather animations, and excerpts […]

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Philosophy of Art: A Workshop

Event Date: Nov. 11, 2016 Location: Florence Hall 100 Time : 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (see website for detailed schedule) Join the DCII “Languages of Art and the Art of the Conceptual” Fellows seminar for their first workshop of the semester. Invited speakers will discuss, “Some Ideas about the Metaphysics of Stories”, “Artistic Luck”, […]

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Educational Assessments in the Digital Environment—Visualizing Problem-Solving Process

Event Date: 11/4/2016 Location: Heroy Science Hall, Room 153 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Dr. Yue (Helena) Jia of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) will illustrate specific data visualization approaches for student-system interactions that are being evaluated at ETS in the field of education, testing, and measurement. Link for more information: http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Events Contact: Xinlei (Sherry) Wang swang@smu.edu