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Event: March 21, What Does a Journal Editor Want?

Event Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019  Time: 4:50 PM – 6:20 PM (CT) Location: Hyer Hall, Room 100 Editors from six scholarly journals describe what they look for when they read manuscripts submitted for publication: Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, Nineteenth-Century Theater and Film; Nora Gilbert, Studies in the Novel; Daniel Hack, Victorian Literature and Culture; Akiko Tsuchiya, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos; Rajani Sudan, Configurations; and Alexandra Wettlaufer, Nineteenth-Century Contexts. […]

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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    

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Event: Feb. 6, ManeFrame II (M2) Introduction

Event Date: Wednesday, February 6 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 […]

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Event: Feb. 7, The Godbey Lecture Series: Catherine de Medici: The Contested Power and Controversial Reputation of a French Queen

Event Date: Feb. 7, 2019 Location: Meadows Museum Time: 5:15 PM Reception, 6:00 PM Lecture An in depth lecture on the life of Catherine de Medici, who died on January 5, 1589 after being integrally connected to the French monarchy for nearly sixty years. This lecture will discuss the powerful sixteenth-century woman, who was queen, […]

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Event: Jan. 20, 5 Dia Internasional del Ladino: A Celebration of Judeo-Spanish Culture

Event Date: Sunday, Jan. 20 Location: McCord Auditorium Time: 1:30-4:30 pm This one-day celebration of Judeo-Spanish culture will feature personal Sephardic stories, an update on Ladino studies, and a concert of Ladino music. Ladino is an historic Jewish language with a geographically diverse distribution that developed a rich cultural heritage since its emergence in medieval Spain. […]

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Meet Benjamin Chi, Human Rights Fellow 2017-18

Dedman College News Originally Posted: November 9, 2018 By: Ryan Garrett In the 2017-18 academic year, SMU Human Rights Fellow Benjamin Chi fought to change the Texas Family Code, advocating for underage youth without guardians to give consent to their own medical care, which would allow them to attend school and improve public health. “Working […]

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Event: November 14, Math Colloquium: Difference-of-convex Learning: optimization with nonconvex sparsity functions.

Event Date: November 14 Location: 126 Clements Hall Time: 3:30 PM Miju Ahn Department of Engineering Management, Information, and Systems (EMIS), Lyle School of Engineering, SMU Sparse learning involves building a robust and efficient model by incorporating sprasity functions in the optimization formulation to select significant variables to serve in the model. The first part of this talk […]

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Event: May 7, Student Film Festival

Event Date: May 7, 2018 Time: 6:30pm Location: McCord Auditorium The students of KNW 2314: On the Edges of Empire would like to invite you to a film festival featuring student-produced films based on the photographs of India and Mexico from the DeGolyer Library at SMU. The film festival will also feature an award-winning film, […]

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Event: April 27, A conference in Honor of Alan Brown’s Retirement

Event Date: Friday, April, 27, 2018 Time: 1:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.              Reception to follow session 2 at 4:30pm Location: Expressway Tower, Room 208 Memory Quirks, the Study of Odd Phenomena in Memory A conference in Honor of Alan Brown’s Retirement “Brownschrift” Free and open to the public. Register […]