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Center for Body, Mind, and Culture
Faculty, Fellows, and Associates
Colloquia Series
Zen Buddhism: Roots and Branches
Somaesthetics and Chinese Culture
Bodies of Design: Somaesthetic Perspectives on Technology
Past Conferences Archive
"Redefining the 'Distant Mirror of our Time:' Basic Concepts and Symbols in Baroque Art and Philosophy
Lecture by Else Marie Bukdahl at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 23 at Living Room Theaters.
Please click here for information regarding the Dorothy F. Schmidt Fellowship in Somaesthetics.
'Zen Buddhism: Roots and Branches'
The Center for Body, Mind and Culture and the Asian Studies Program in Florida Atlantic University's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters is hosting a conference on "Zen Buddhism: Roots and Branches," on Friday, November 2, 2018 @ and Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus. There is no fee to register, however advanced registration is advised. To register, email bodymindculture@gmail.com.
The conference will examine Zen Buddhism (or Chan Buddhism as it is known in China), which is both a religion and a bodily practice with branches that have spread over the world. Its roots first developed in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE), and by the 13th century had spread to Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Today, Zen practice and theory have become prominent also throughout the Western world. This conference provides a forum for research on both the early development and the later spread of Zen.
"We are delighted to explore the history and contemporary expression of Zen together with an international and transdisciplinary group of experts," said Richard Shusterman, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and director of the Center for Body, Mind and Culture. "It is a special pleasure to collaborate closely on this project with Ken Holloway, FAU's Levenson Chair in Asian Studies and associate director of our Center."
The presentations will include both ancient and modern aspects of Zen's remarkable evolution, dealing with topics such as metaphysics, meditation, liturgy, doctrines of salvation, poetry, poverty, pedagogy and post-enlightenment practice. This is the 14th international conference of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture since its founding in 2007.
For more information visit https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/bodymindculture/uconfern/.
The Journal of Somaesthetics: New Issue Now Available
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture is pleased to announce the publicatio of the new issue of The Journal of Somaesthetics volume 3, no.1 & 2, entitled Bodies of Belief/Bodies of Care.
You can access this issue at https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/JOS/issue/view/184 . We hope you enjoy its contents.
Call for Papers: Fall 2017 Bodies of Virtue: Asian Perspectives on Ethics and Somaesthetics
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture invites proposals for papers to be presented at a 2-day conference, November 8-9, 2017, at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
Bodies are the primary platform where self-cultivation techniques develop in Asian cultures. Although proponents of somatic self-cultivation present body disciplines as fundamental instruments for liberation, others sought to twist bodies into tools for oppression and control. Not only considered as a tool for self-improvement in the path to ethical and spiritual progress, the body was contrastingly regarded as an abiding threat to morality and spirituality. How are we to understand and navigate these paradoxes? How are these different views represented not only in religious and philosophical texts but also in art and literature? Asian perspectives on embodiment, together with Asian somatic disciplines, are increasingly pervasive in Western culture. How does this transcultural travel take place? In what ways are the original ideas distorted, misunderstood, or enriched by their importation into new contexts? How do contemporary Asian cultures regard their own traditions and reconcile them with those of Western modernity? How do gender and sexuality studies provide new ways to understand how the microcosm of the body interfaces with the larger structures of religion, politics, and culture? The conference "Bodies of Virtue: Asian Perspectives on Ethics and Somaesthetics" will address these questions from the diverse disciplinary perspectives of religion, philosophy, history, the visual arts, literature, cultural and gender studies, and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics.
Selected papers may be developed for publication in The Journal of Somaesthetics (https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/JOS) or in an edited book based in part on the conference papers and published in the series Studies in Somaesthetics (http://www.brill.com/studies-somaesthetics). Further information about the conference will be made available at /artsandletters/bodymindculture, where you can also consult the programs of our prior international conferences. Prospective speakers will be notified by mid August, 2017.
Kenneth Holloway Appointed as New Center Assistant Director
The Center of Body, Mind, and Culture is proud to announce the appointment of Professor Kenneth Holloway as the Center's Associate Director. An Associate Professor in FAU's excellent Department of History, he is also Levenson Professor of Asian Studies and Director of FAU's Asian Studies Certificate Program. Ken has a very distinguished research profile that includes two books on early Chinese religious thought that were published by Oxford University Press. He moreover brings this historical scholarship into active theoretical and practical engagement with today's global culture through his work on the contemporary project of Humanistic Buddhism, work that includes his serving on the Standing Committee of the United Nations NGO, Buddha's Light International. Ken is very familiar with the Center, having served as its first Associate Director and then continuing as a regular research fellow. He is replacing Professor John Golden from the English Department, who left FAU earlier this academic year after several fine years of service to the Center, for which we are very grateful.
"Chinese Calligraphy: Natural and Somatic Roots"
Presented by FAU's Department of Visual Arts and Art History
Dr. Yanping Gao, Visiting Scholar at the Center of Body, Mind, and Culture, will be delivering the lecture "Chinese Calligraphy: Natural and Somatic Roots" as part of the Graduate Student Lecture series
Monday, October 24, 2016 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Visual Arts Building (VA-53), Rm VA 105
Call for Papers EXTENSION: 2017 Bodies in the Streets
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture would like to announce that the Call for Papers deadline for the 2017 Conference, titled Bodies in the Streets: Somaesthetics of City Life, has been EXTENDED, to November 13, 2016. Please note that abstracts need be 250 words, and a current CV must be attached. Prospective speakers will be notified by early December, 2016. For more information about the conference, please see below.
2017 Bodies in the Streets: Somaesthetics of City Life Call for Papers
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture invites proposals for papers to be presented at a 2-day conference, January 26–27, 2017, at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
Cities are defined by their complex network of busy streets and the diverse multitudes of busy people that populate and animate those streets through their physical presence and bodily actions. The human bodies and movements we find in the streets often differ dramatically – the elegant flâneur or strolling window-shopper versus the homeless beggars who make the pavement their bed, the crowds who fill the streets in protest and the patrolling law-enforcement officers who police them. If cities are shaped by human bodies, then those bodies are reciprocally shaped by the spaces, rhythms, and logics of city life. What are the somaesthetic qualities of urban living, its affordances and challenges (from better cultural and medical services to the cramped quarters and polluted air that many city dwellers must endure)? What are the somatic images of urban life? What paths or models of somaesthetic thinking can help us bring the rich diversity of city life into a more rewarding harmony that remains dynamically progressive? We invite abstracts that address these questions from the perspectives of the visual arts, literature, urbanism, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics.
Selected papers may be developed for publication in The Journal of Somaesthetics (https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/JOS) or in an edited book based on the conference papers.
Abstracts of 250 words, and a current CV, should be sent electronically as attachments, no later than October 15, 2016 to Richard Shusterman at bodymindculture@fau.edu. Please direct conference inquiries to the same address. Further information about the conference will be made available at /artsandletters/bodymindculture, where you can also consult the programs of our prior international conferences. Prospective speakers will be notified by mid November, 2016.
"Women with Character in Early Modern Spanish Theater"
Sigma Delta Pi-Rho Omicron presents a conference with Dr. Elizabeth Cruz Petersen
2:30-4 PM Tuesday, February 9, 2016
FAU Student Union Majestic Palm Room A
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2016 Bodies of Care: Somaesthetics of Vulnerability Call for Papers
Bodies are obviously the targets of one's daily care in terms of personal hygiene, grooming, exercise, and proper nourishment. They are also objects of care in the sense of worry or concern, since we all suffer illness and death through our bodies. However, the sentient, purposive, active body or soma is also a subjectivity that examines and cares for the body as object, whether it be one's own body or the bodies of others who one wants to help or comfort. We all need such curative help or comfort at some point in our lives; and some people devote their professional and personal lives to giving such care. Bodies need and give care in many ways and for many reasons: to overcome illness and disability, to address and alleviate dependence, to learn new skills and remedy bad habits, to inspire greater confidence for personal flourishing and greater social betterment. This conference will examine the wide range of somatic conditions that require care and the variety of somatic methods of providing such care, while exploring how these conditions and methods are represented in cultural theory, health and wellness studies, literature, and the arts.
Selected papers may be developed for publication in The Journal of Somaesthetics (http://somaesthetics.wordpress.com/) or in an edited book based on the conference papers.
Abstracts of 250 words, and a current CV, should be sent electronically as attachments, no later than October 15, 2015, to Richard Shusterman at bodymindculture@fau.edu. Please direct conference inquiries to the same address. Further information about the conference will be made available at /artsandletters/bodymindculture, where you can also consult the programs of our prior international conferences. Prospective speakers will be notified by mid-November, 2015.
2015 Bodies of Belief: Somaesthetics of Faith and Protest Call for Papers
Human bodies are shaped not only by their genetic endowment but also by the belief systems of the cultures in which they develop and function. Such belief systems vary from unarticulated background assumptions to ritualized practices and explicit doctrines or even to formulated laws enacted and enforced by social institutions. Likewise, belief's somatic shaping ranges widely from the stylization of external appearance (including clothing and ornamentation) to the structuring of bodily actions and comportment (including essential practices like eating) and even to inner modes of affect (which are felt somatically). The beliefs that the human soma embodies and expresses are not confined to established social norms; they also include items of faith and commitment that are individualistic, nonconformist, or even antagonistic to the cultural mainstream. More than a mere instrument of compliance or worship, the soma is also a site and weapon of protest. Our conference will explore the ways through which beliefs and their corresponding values are embodied and somatically contested in such cultural fields as religion, politics, ethics, and the arts. How are beliefs acted upon or counter-acted by bodies in these fields? How do artistic or literary representations reflect on such bodily actions or themselves participate in these actions?
Selected papers may be developed for publication in The Journal of Somaesthetics (http://journals.aau.dk/index.php/JOS/ ) or in a volume based on the conference papers.
2014 Mindful Body in the Arts of Eating Call for Papers
Eating is an essential activity for human life, and without such life there is no thought, no theory, no art. While eating is a need, knowing how to eat is often said to be an art that requires intelligence, knowledge, and imaginative creativity. As another maxim puts it: Animals feed; humans eat; and the wise know how to eat. What considerations guide our eating? How could we make them more intelligent and rewarding? A multitude of diverse factors affect our forms of eating and our choice of food: economic, medical, gustatory, ethical, social, and aesthetic. How do we balance them for a more mindful, healthier, more gratifying art of eating?
This conference will explore the art of eating by considering the different sciences and arts that examine and guide the ways we eat and drink. These include the various fields that impact gastronomical theory (from health sciences and cooking to agriculture and economics) and fields that concern the ways food and eating are represented in literature, social theory, and the arts.
Abstracts of 250 words, and a current CV, should be sent electronically as attachments, no later than October 15, 2013, to Richard Shusterman at bodymindculture@fau.edu. Please direct conference inquiries to the same address. Further information about the conference will be made available at /artsandletters/bodymindculture, where you can also consult the programs of our prior international conferences. Prospective speakers will be notified by November 15, 2013.
2013 Somaesthetics Essay Prize Competition Call for Papers
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida Atlantic University is pleased to announce its second annual Somaesthetics Essay Prize competition. The award for the 2013 prize will be $500. Essays should be academic in style and focus on the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics from such perspectives as philosophy, aesthetics, art history and theory, literary and cultural studies, dance, design, music, theatre, cognitive science, gender and sexuality studies, sports, movement, and health studies.
Submissions should be between 6,000 and 9,000 words in length including notes and references, and should be emailed in Word format to bodymindculture@fau.edu. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2013, and the prize winner will be announced in December 2013. Essays will be evaluated by an interdisciplinary panel of judges appointed by the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture.
2012 Somaesthetics Essay Prize Winner
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida, Atlantic University is pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Somesthetics Essay Prize competition. Among many excellent submissions, two outstanding essays will share the prize. "Performing the Renaissance Body and Mind: Somaesthetic Style and Devotional Practice at the Sacro Monte di Varallo," by Allie Terry-Fritsch (Bowling Green State University USA) investigates the somaesthetic dimensions of a fifteenth-century simulation of the Holy Land in northern Italy. The meticulously researched essay vividly conveys the ways that techniques of bodily experience intersected with devotional practices in Italian Renaissance culture. "Somaesthetics as a Discipline Between Pragmatist Philosophy and Philosophical Anthropology," by Salvatore Tedesco (Palermo University, Italy) engages in a thorough and nuanced analysis of the relations between somaesthetics and the history of aesthetic theory since Alexander Baumgarten, before going on to consider somaesthetics' affinities and differences with twentieth-century philosophical anthropology. Tedesco's essay had been published in a special issue of Pragmatism Today devoted to somaesthetics:"Affect, Aesthetics, and the Body: Varieties of Somaesthetics," vol. 3 no.2 (winter 2012) accessible via http://www.pragmatismtoday.eu/index.php?id=2012winter2. We congratulate both winners for their excellent work. A call for submissions to the Somaesthetics Essay Prize for 2013 is forthcoming.
Special Documentary Screening and Master Class
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture and the School for Communications is happy to present the screening of the documentary film LAWNSWOOD GARDENS, followed by a master class on documentary filmmaking about philosophical subjects by the film's director, Pawel Kuczynski. The screening will be held on Monday, February 18th at 2pm in Room 107 of building CU 97, where the Living Room Theater is housed. Enter from Democracy Plaza (the covered area next to the atrium) using the double doors between the poster cases. The master class (consisting of short lecture followed by a Question and Answer session) will follow the screening. There is no charge for either event but seating is limited and reservations are encouraged. To reserve a seat please just send an email to bodymindculture@fau.edu
Lawnswood Gardens is a documentary portrait of Zygmunt Bauman (1924- ), the world-renowned social theorist and philosopher who was driven out of Poland by an anti-semitic campaign engineered by the Communist government in 1968 and then became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, England. A central theme in his work is the status of the stranger and the challenge that strangers pose to society's sense of order. He develops this idea in his most famous book, Modernity and the Holocaust (1989). Bauman is also famous for his writings on postmodernism and consumerism and his concept of "liquid modernity." Lawnswood Gardens is based on the filmmaker's four-day long visit at Bauman's home and provides a moving and provocative glimpse of the philosopher's life as well as his ideas.
Pawel Kuczynski is a graduate of the famous Lodz Film Academy (whose famous alumni include Roman Polanski, Andrzej Wajda, and Krzysztof Kieślowski) and specializes in documentary films about intellectuals and philosophical topics. Currently based in Warsaw, he previously worked many years in Hollywood. This February he is a visiting scholar at the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture of the Dorothy F. Schmidt, College of Arts and Letters, where he working on a new film related to research being done at the Center.
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture is grateful to the School of Communications for its collaboration in this double-event to mark the visit of Pawel Kuczynski, which also enjoys the collaboration of the Philosophy Club, the English Graduate Student Society, and the Commercial Music program.
2013 Body and Technology: Instruments of Somaesthetics Conference Press Release
FAU's Center for Body, Mind and Culture Presents
'Body and Technology: Instruments of Somaesthetics'
BOCA RATON, Fla. (January 7 , 2013) – The Center for Body, Mind and Culture in Florida Atlantic University's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters is hosting an international conference titled "Body and Technology: Instruments of Somaesthetics" on Thursday, Jan. 24 and Friday, Jan. 25, 2013 in the Arts and Humanities Building, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.
"I am delighted that the Center is organizing this important international and transdisciplinary conference which highlights the richly complex interaction between body and technology," said Richard Shusterman, Ph.D., Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and director of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture. "Too often our society opposes the living body to the tools of technology, forgetting that the body is itself our tool of tools; just as our culture too often contrasts technology and the arts, forgetting that they share a common creative source and etymological history – techne being the Greek word for art. Here at the Center, we aim to integrate scientific, humanistic, and artistic research to promote ways that enrich our somaesthetic understanding and thus improve the quality of our embodied experience."
Regarding the body as a sentient soma rather than as a merely material machine, this conference will examine the complex relationship between body and technology, exploring how the body, as our basic instrument for living, has been reshaped by the technologies it has developed – changing our somatic habits through which we experience and act in the world while also altering the body through various forms of mechanical or chemical enhancement.
Conference presenters include distinguished experts and academics from France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Australia, Canada, England, Ireland and China, as well as from American universities such as the University of Virginia, Bucknell University and the University of Florida. Their presentations feature the somatic role and impact of technologies of human-computer interaction, the application of somatic-related technologies to contemporary visual and musical arts, biotechnologies of health, wellness, athletics and the impact of technology on how the body is treated in other practices and environments, including the legal courtroom.
This is the eighth international conference of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture since its establishment in 2007.
There is no conference registration fee, however advanced registration is required. To register, or for more information, visit www.fau.edu/artsandletters/bodymindculture/Conferences.php, or email bodymindculture@fau.edu.
2013 Body and Technology: Instruments of Somaesthetics Conference Call For Papers
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture invites proposals for papers to be presented at a 3-day conference, January 24-26, 2013, at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
The human body is our basic instrument for life, the basis for the creation and use of all our other tools or technologies. As the body has shaped technology, so technology is increasingly reshaping the body: not only by reshaping our bodily habits through which we experience and act in the world but also through the incorporation of prosthetic devices and drug enhancements. Regarding the body as a sensitive sentient soma, rather than as a merely material machine, this conference rethinks the relationship between body and technology, focusing on such topics as human-computer interaction, robotics, medical and fitness technologies, technology and the environment, and technologies of the arts. We welcome papers from the perspectives of both the sciences and the humanities.
Abstracts of 250 words, and a current CV, should be sent electronically as attachments, no later than October 1, 2012, to Richard Shusterman at bodymindculture@fau.edu
Please direct conference inquiries to the same address. Further information about the conference will be made available at /artsandletters/bodymindculture, where you can also consult the programs of our prior international conferences. Prospective speakers will be notified by November 8, 2012.
Somaesthetics Essay Prize Contest
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida Atlantic University is pleased to announce its first annual Somaesthetics Essay Prize competition. The award for the 2012 prize will be $500. Essays should be academic in style and focus on the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics from such perspectives as philosophy, aesthetics, art history and theory, literary and cultural studies, dance, design, music, theatre, cognitive science, gender and sexuality studies, sports, movement, and health studies. The prize essay will be recommended for publication in an upcoming special issue of the philosophical journal Pragmatism Today on somaesthetics.
Submissions should be between 6,000 and 9,000 words in length, including notes and references, and should be e-mailed in Word format to bodymindculture@fau.edu. The deadline for submission of essays is September 15, 2012, and the prize winner will be announced in December 2012. Essays will be evaluated by an interdisciplinary panel of judges appointed by the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture.
Citation Style: Essays should follow the guidelines specified in the Chicago Manual of Style.
Bibliographies on Somaesthetics: Several lists of texts on somaesthetics can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/somaesthetics/home/somaesthetics-texts.
The Université Paris 1 ‒ Panthéon Sorbonne held a one-day conference, on May 25th, 2012, to mark the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Richard Shusterman's Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art. To accompany the conference and trace the impact of Shusterman's work not only in aesthetics, philosophy, and the human sciences but also in contemporary art, the Sorbonne will also be organizing an art show.
This twofold project is organized by the Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Faculty of Arts Plastiques et Sciences de l'Art (UMR ACTE, Arts ‒ Créations ‒ Théories ‒ Esthétiques). French institutional partners in the project include the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Faculty of Philosophy (Equipe de recherche Philosophies Contemporaines) and the Ecole Normale Supérieure d'Ulm: Centre International de Recherches en Philosophie, Lettres, Savoirs. The project is also supported by other international partners: Peking University's Center for Aesthetics and Aesthetic Education; China's Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing) and Florida Atlantic University's Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.
For more information, click here .
Previous Conferences and Programs:
The Center for Body, Mind and Culture hosted Mindful Body in Healing and the Arts January 19-20, 2012 at FAU in Boca Raton. The keynote lecture, given by Professor Anne Harrington of Harvard University, was entitled "The Cure Within". Regarding the body as sentient, purposive subjectivity (rather than mere physical flesh), the conference focused on ways that somatic mindfulness can contribute to health, healing, and aesthetic experience. Presentations dealt with disciplines of mindful body consciousness (Asian and Western) and their applications in the areas of wellness, fitness, and the arts.
The Center for Body, Mind and Culture and the Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies hosted a two-day conference, December 2nd and 3rd, at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton entitled "Bodies of Art." The keynote speaker was the internationally acclaimed artist ORLAN. In conjunction with ORLAN's participation as a keynote speaker in the "Bodies of Art" symposium at FAU, the University Galleries presented ORLAN Resurfacing: Surgery-Performance Photos and Recent Works, from December 1, 2010 to January 22, 2011 in the Schmidt Center Gallery Public Space. For more information on this conference including the individual titles and abstracts of each presentation, click here.
Dr. Wojciech Malecki, a visiting scholar at the Center in Spring 2010, gave a paper "Borat, Multicultural Implications" at Webster University.
Ms. Hyijin Lee, Visiting Scholar at FAU's Center for Body, Mind, and Culture (and doctoral student of Tokyo University) was appointed as a Research Fellow at the Lifelong Learning and Human Resources Development Institute of Soongsil University's College of Education, one of Korea's main centers for research in education, located in Seoul.
The Departments of English and Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature Present "Between Post-communism and Post-colonialism: Literary Studies in Central/Eastern Europe," a lecture by Dr. Wojciech Malecki, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philology, the University of Wroclaw, Poland. Free and open to the public.
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture and the French Program in the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Campus hosted a Conference on French Cultures of Embodiment 25-27 March 2010.
Associate Updates, 2009
On Sunday, October 4, 2009 Professor Kenneth Holloway gave a presentation on his book Guodian The Newly Discovered Seeds of Chinese Religious and Political Philosophy at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach. For more information click here.
Dr. Jane Caputi contributed "Character Assassinations: Hate Messages in Election 2008 Commercial Paraphernalia" to the Denver University Law Review special issue on the historic election of President Barack Obama and participated in the NEH Summer Seminar, "A Fierce Green Fire: The Environmental Philosophy of Aldo Leopold," in Prescott, AZ, June 20- July 18. Professor Caputi was also awarded the Green Consciousness: Reattachment to the Mother/Earth grant of $50,000.00 from the Frederick Leonhardt Foundation, to produce an educational film.
The Center will host a Conference on Art and Ritual in Asian Cultures, March 20-21, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Florida. To view the conference web page click here.
Center Associate Director Dr. Kenneth Holloway's new book Guodian The Newly Discovered Seeds of Chinese Religious and Political Philosophy was published by Oxford University Press in January.
Center Director Dr. Richard Shusterman received a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship for the Summer of 2009.
"Celebration of China" Friday, February 13, 2009 Come and meet our two Visiting Chinese Scholars At the Center Dr. Pang Fei, Professor of Chinese Aesthetics at Zhejiang University of Technology and Gong Ming a Doctoral student in Literary Theory at Peking University and hear about the China-related research books from Center Fellows Professor Wenying Xu ( English), author of Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature, University of Hawaii Press (2008) and Professor Ken Holloway ( History), author of Guodian The Newly Discovered Seeds of Chinese Religious and Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press (2009).
The Center hosted an international conference Bodies in Motion: Explorations in Perception and Performance in Boca Raton, December 4-6, 2008. To view the conference web page click here.
During the fall semester the Center hosted three presentations as part of the Coffee Colloquium series:
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Professor Oliver Buckton ( English) presented: "Robert Louis Stevenson, William Gladstone, and the Politics of Late-Victorian Masculinity."
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Professor Michael Horswell (Languages and Linguistics) spoke about: "Re-writing Imperial Subjects of Treason: Amazons and Cañaris in Spanish Transatlantic Literature."
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Professor Benno Lowe ( History) discussed: "Commonwealth and Reformation: Protestantism and the Politics of Religious Change in the Gloucester Vale (1350-1560)."
The Center hosted two international scholars this semester:
Hans-Peter Krueger, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Potsdam, was here for two weeks in March on a Transcoop Humboldt Foundation Grant to participate in collaborative research on embodiment.
Professor Kacper Bartczak, a poet, critic, and scholar of American studies at the University of Lodz and Academy of Management in Lodz, visited FAU from 3/18-6/15. A grant from the Kosciuszko Foundation funded his visit. While here Professor Bartczak conducted research on American poetics and its relationship to pragmatist philosophy.
Check the events page for information about a conference the Center hosted for the scholars.
Dr. Wenying Xu has published a new book titled, Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature . The book is available through UH Press and Amazon.com. Or click here for the order form.
Dr. Richard Shusterman has published a new book titled, Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics . The book is available through Cambridge University Press and Amazon.com.
In addition to publishing a new book, Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature (April 2008), Dr. Wenying Xu has recently appeared as a co-guest editor for Multiethnic Literatures and Food: A MELUS Special Issue (Winter 2007) and published an article in Cultural Critique titled, "Masculinity, Food, and Appetite in Frank Chin's Donald Duk and 'The Eat and Run Midnight People'" (Spring 2007).
Dr. Richard Shusterman has just published Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics (January 2008). He also contributed "Entertainment Value: Intrinsic, Instrumental, and Transactional" to a collection titled, Beyond Price: Value in Culture, Economics, and the Arts (2008), and published articles in Common Knowledge (Spring-Fall 2007), Recherches en Esthétique (October 2007), and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (Winter 2007). Dr. Shusterman's new research has recently been featured in articles and interviews in Le Monde , Le Point , Art Press , Les Inrockuptibles , and in a radio interview on France Culture . In May, he will be speaking at the Moderna Museet.
Dr. Jane Caputi's documentary, The Pornography of Everyday Life , has been screening around the country at universities and conferences, as well as at the National Women's Studies Association Film Series. Dr. Caputi has also recently published articles in Ethics and the Environment ("Green Consciousness: Earth Based Myth and Meaning in Shrek" in Fall/Winter 2007) and The Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture ("Overkill: Why Excess and Conflict are both Sexy and Sacred" in Winter 2007).
Press Release: Florida Atlantic University and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Enter into International Collaboration Agreement. Universities to work on joint research projects, publications, seminars and exchange programs.
BOCA RATON, FL (November 19, 2007) – Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and the Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (Sorbonne) recently signed an agreement of collaboration in research and teaching to explore different teaching and research programs with the aim of enhancing the knowledge and skills of the academic staff and to improve the educational options of students at both universities. Collaboration efforts will include joint research projects, colloquia and seminars, joint publications, teaching and research staff exchanges, and student exchange programs. The primary focus of study will be in aesthetics, the fine arts, and the philosophy and criticism of the arts.
"The Sorbonne is one of Europe's most important centers of research and teaching with a long and prestigious tradition of influence in the field of culture," said Dr. Richard Shusterman, the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at FAU. "I have had the pleasure of working with colleagues at the Sorbonne, and participating in research and teaching programs there. We are delighted that this agreement will formalize and deepen our special relationship and mutual commitment to research and teaching in the arts and the humanities."
Professor Marc Jimenez, director of the Laboratory of Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics at the Sorbonne, said, "My research center is very happy to see the establishment of this agreement with FAU that will enable fruitful exchanges in research and teaching, and build on the special relationship which we already have with Professor Shusterman, who has contributed significantly to the dialogue between French and American philosophy through his numerous publications in French and his frequent lectures in Paris."
In what will be the first of a series of colloquia and seminars involving the Sorbonne and France, Shusterman and the Center for Body, Mind and Culture, in cooperation with the cultural service of the French Consulate of Miami/French Embassy of the United States, will be hosting a bilingual conference entitled, "French Philosophy and Contemporary Art," December 3-4 at FAU's Boca Raton campus.
The conference will include leading French philosophers, critics and artists including representatives from the Sorbonne and other important institutions, along with internationally distinguished scholars and artists from elsewhere in Europe and North America. The event provides a timely background to the annual Miami-Basel international festival of contemporary art which opens this year on December 6.
"International collaboration is especially important for studying the fields of art and culture in today's multicultural world of rapid change," said Professor Dominique Chateau, past director of the Doctoral School of Arts and Art Sciences at the Sorbonne who helped initiate the agreement with FAU and the Sorbonne. Shusterman was appointed earlier as a full member of this Doctoral School of Arts.
The Center for Body, Mind and Culture is the initiative of Shusterman, and it deploys the college's wide-ranging disciplinary perspectives on body, mind and culture – ranging from philosophy and history, through social, communicational and literary studies, to the performing and plastic arts. The center is an interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to promoting research, programming and teaching concerning the body-mind-culture nexus. Through collaborative networks within FAU and external organizations, the center is engaged not only in scholarly research and teaching, but also pursues a mission of public outreach serving diverse populations in the South Florida region who have a strong interest in topics relating to the body-mind-culture nexus. These topics include health and illness, fitness and disability, body image in art and culture, fashion, cosmetics, athletics, nutrition, sexuality and gender, sensory motor learning and therapies, performing arts, martial arts, spirituality and meditation and other body-mind disciplines (Western and non-Western). The center's associate director is Dr. Kenneth W. Holloway, Levenson Professor of Asian Studies.
For more information about the center and upcoming events visit www.fau.edu/artsandletters/bodymindculture or call 561-297-0851.
The Center hosted the Revisiting the French Connection conference on French Philosophy and Contemporary Art. This international, bilingual conference took place on December 3-4, 2007. For more information, click (for English) ou cliquer (pour français).
On November 27, from 4-5 PM, the Center featured William F. Dietrich Eminent Scholar and Professor of Philosophy, Lester Embree at a Coffee Colloquium in AH 108. For more information about this free event, visit the events page.
The Center began a new series of Coffee Colloquiums with poet Susan Mitchell, Mary Blossom Lee Chair in FAU's English Department. For more information, visit our events page.
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Center member and Visiting Assistant Professor in Dance, Clarence Brooks was the 2006 recipient of the Clyde Fyfe Award for Performing Artists. Given by the Palm Beach County Cultural Council, the award recognizes the artistic development and community service of an emerging Palm Beach County performing artist whose life and work emulate those of the late Clyde Fyfe, the Palm Beach County impresario and arts leader.
Center Member and Professor Women's Studies and Communications, Jane Caputi has completed a film entitled The Pornography of Everyday Life which will be distributed by Berkeley Media.
Center Director Richard Shusterman gave the keynote Kneller Lecture at the annual conference of the Philosophy of Education Society at Atlanta in March. He also directed a seminar at the Fulbright Summer Institute in Moscow in June (the other American seminar Director was Michael Holquist, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale, and the current President of the MLA). In July Professor Shusterman gave an invited plenary lecture at the 14 International Congress of Aesthetics in Turkey.
Center member and Associate Professor of English, Wenying Xu has recently signed a contract with Hawai'i University Press for her new book Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature.


"Good art has the power to change our perspective on things," Stephen Nowlin, director of the Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., recently told NBC4 News in L.A. "Even though we've known for over 400 years that the Earth is not the center of the universe, we still tend to slip back into that kind of 'Earth-centric' thinking."
A show organized by the Williamson Gallery, along with Art Center neighbor and NASA/Caltech affiliate the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shakes us humans out of that mindset, and, simply, dazzles with the beauty of the cosmos.
"The History of Space Photography" features 150 images, selected by guest curator Jay Belloli and several consultants at JPL. Most are from the last 50 years or so, but some date back as far as the 19th century.
The show divides the images into several categories -- shots of Earth from space, for example; shots of our solar system and its individual planets and star; shots of deep space -- and the pictures range from the first known photo of a telescope (a crude, 1839 shot) to a stunning color image of the Sun created by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory just a year and a half ago. They also include images that track the changing face of the Earth.
"Though we are really trying to push the boundaries of knowledge, it's also a way of showing the beauty that's inherent in the universe," JPL's Randii Wessen said of the research images produced by the Lab and other space-oriented organizations, in a comment to NBC4.
When you see a picture of the Helix Nebula shot from the Spitzer space telescope, it's hard not to be wowed by the grandeur and vastness of space (and of cosmic time). And when you see an image of the Mississippi River Delta captured by NASA's Terra satellite, or a shot of glacier melt in Iceland, it's hard not to reflect on the relative ephemeral nature of the small planet we call home.
The above image shows the Helix Nebula captured by the Spitzer space telescope, February 12, 2007.
Sir John Herschel took this earliest known photograph of a telescope, a 40-inch device owned by his father, Sir William Herschel, in September 1839. Both father and son were famous astronomers. Sir John Herschel named the new medium for creating permanent images of the world using lenses "photography."
David Gill's photograph of the Great Comet of 1882, November 14, 1882, shot from the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
The first view of the Earth from the moon, photographed by Lunar Orbiter 1. The spacecraft was above a portion of the moon not visible from our planet, searching for a landing spot for the future man-on-the-moon mission. August 23, 1966.
High-phase-angle Saturn image, from the Cassini mission, September 15, 2006.
Lakes of liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan, from the Cassini mission, July 22, 2006.
This representative color photograph was taken of the Sun by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on March 30, 2010.
A photograph of the farthest away and oldest galaxies, including one 12.8 billion light-years away, from Hubble Ultra Deep Field and Spitzer telescopes, 2007.
Star's death in the Crab Nebula, as seen in a composite image by Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer space telescopes.
Dust clouds in the center of Reflection Nebula NGC 1333, shot from the Kitt Peak National Observatory.
This 360-degree view, called the "McMurdo" panorama, comes from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, 2006.
The Earth at night, a composite of hundreds of pictures made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, 2001.
Uncataloged dark cloud in Scorpius, Australian Astronomical Observatory, 2000-2010.
The surface of Venus, from the Magellan mission, orbit August 10, 1990 to October 12, 1994.
On May 24, 2010, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite captured this false-color, high-resolution view of the very tip of the Mississippi River Delta.
Ocean eddies off the coast of New Zealand, October 25, 2009, taken by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua Satellite.
Opposing jets from supermassive black hole in galaxy Centaurus A by Chandra space telescope, 2008.
North America Nebula from Spitzer space telescope, combining visible light with infrared. Visible light is shown as blue, and infrared light as green and red. February 10, 2011.
You are looking at glacier melt on Iceland, from 1973 to 2000, in images created by the Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Earth taken from Apollo 17, 1972.


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Vandebilt Catholic's boys and girls tennis teams swept Episcopal School of Acadiana 10-1 and 6-1 on Thursday.
In boys singles, Nick Caletri (8-2), Jacob Richard (8-1), Mitch Thomas (8-2), Mason Melancon (8-0), Philip McMahon (8-5), Hayden Bergeron (8-2) and Chris Dugas (8-1) all won their matches for Vandebilt.
In girls singles, Sarah Bourgeois (8-4), Kristen Alevizon (8-6), Hannah Chouest (8-2) and Lindsey Carreker (8-2) all won their matches for the Lady Terriers.
Vandebilt won three of the four matches in boys doubles as Caletri and Bergeron won 8-6, while McMahon and Richard won 8-4. Dugas and Chris Rome also won their match (8-6). Melancon and Thomas lost their match 9-8(6).
In girls doubles, the Lady Terriers also won three of four matches. Chouest and Alevizon won 9-8(6), while Bourgeouis and Carrecker won 8-6. Stephanie Alevizon and Kohrin Pellegrin won their match 8-4, while Arden Whitehurst and Keri Champagne lost their match 8-3.


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{{Infobox company
| name = Access Bank Ghana Plc
| logo =
| type = Public
| traded_as = GA: ACCESS
| foundation =
| location_city = Osu, Accra
| location_country = Ghana
| key_people = Frank W. BeechamChairmanOlumide OlatunjiManaging Director and CEOPearl NkrumahExecutive Director| num_employees =
| assets = GHS:5.824 billion (US$861 million) (2020)
| revenue = :Pretax: GHS:878.1 million (US$129.8 million) (2020)
| industry = Financial services
| products = Loans, Transaction accounts, Savings, Investments, Debit cards,
| parent = Access Bank Group
| homepage = Homepage
}}Access Bank Ghana Plc, formerly Access Bank Ghana Limited, is a full service commercial bank in Ghana, licensed by the Bank of Ghana, the central bank and national banking regulator.

Location
The headquarters and main branch of the bank are located at Starlets 91 Road, Accra, Ghana. The geographical coordinates of the banks headquarters are:05°33'09.0"N, 0°11'24.0"W (Latitude:5.552500; Longitude:-0.190000).

Overview
The bank offers universal banking services to institutional, corporate, commercial, and retail customers, across Ghana. As of December 2020, Access Bank Ghana had total assets of GHS:5.824 billion (US$861 million), with shareholders' equity of GHS:1.052 billion (US$155.5 million). The stock of the company is listed on the  Ghana Stock Exchange, where it trades under the symbol: ACCESS.

Access Bank Group
Access Bank Ghana is a subsidiary and component of the Access Bank Group, a financial services conglomerate with headquarters in Nigeria and subsidiaries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Zambia and the United Kingdom. The group also maintains representative offices in China, India, United Arab Emirates and Lebanon. As of 31 March 2020, Access Bank Group was a large pan-African financial services organization with assets in excess of ₦7.28 trillion (US$18.82 billion).

Ownership
The shares of stock of Access Bank Ghana are listed of the Ghana Stock Exchange where they trade under the symbol: ACCESS'. The table below illustrates the shareholding in the company, as of 31 October 2017.

History
Access Bank Ghana became operational in 2009, with base capital of GHS:80 million. In March 2017, Access Bank Group completed an initial public offering (IPO) for its Ghana subsidiary, raising $6 million by selling a 6 percent stake.

In September 2022, Access Bank Ghana became the title sponsor of the Ghana Division One League (renaming the league as the Access Bank Division One League'') as well as the official banking partner of the Ghana Football Association in a USD250,000 one-year deal.

See also

List of financial institutions in Ghana
Economy of Ghana

References

External links
 Official Website

Banks of Ghana
Companies based in Accra
Banks established in 2009
Ghanaian companies established in 2009
Companies listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange
Access Bank Group

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The Egyptian liberation movement is closing in, citing government sanctions
CAIRO (AP) – One of Egypt's most independent human rights organizations has closed, the group said on Monday, citing government harassment.
The Egyptian government has been cracking down on terrorists for years, which has thwarted many organizations in the country and detained thousands of prisons.
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, an Egyptian organization, was founded in 2004 by a group of lawyers and activists. It recorded crimes against citizens, journalists and political prisoners in Egypt and the region. It was also followed by an increase in government threats to the purpose of human rights activists and others.
But the laws that made many of ANHRI's activities banned have forced the agency to close down, Executive Director Gamal Eid said in a statement. He said members of the group were arrested, threatened and beaten by security forces.
"We continue to be conscientious lawyers, and as individuals, human rights activists will work with a few independent organizations, human rights activists and the entire democratic movement," he wrote.
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Most of those arrested in recent years are Muslims but also include civil rights activists who participated in the 2011 Arab Spring riots that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
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DRINK, Marx said, is the curse of the working class. Work, Oscar Wilde retorted, is the curse of the drinking class. But just as society has become more middle class (2000 was the year the UK became more middle than working class), so drinking issues have also gone up the social scale.
This year, following a bit of overindulgence at Christmas, I've been attempting to cut out red meat and alcohol for January. Regular readers of this column will know that Mrs B is not a regular reader of my column, so I can safely mention the steak sandwich I had on a work trip to London. But while my red meat abstinence has slipped, I have managed (for once) to stick Dry January out. And hopefully, by publicly shaming myself this way, I'll make it through the final week of aridity.
Drinking problems feel the opposite way round to when I was growing up. Recent statistics show that while abstaining from alcohol has grown sharply for 16-24 year olds (non-drinkers rising from 18 per cent to 29 per cent over the last decade), middle-aged, middle-class drinking is continually on the rise. And while the young tend to drink only at the weekend, the middle-aged as a group are much more likely to drink throughout the week.
That's my drinking down to a tee. I'm very much a glass of wine when I'm cooking sort of a guy: little and often, rather than going out to get drunk. Last year, I had one of those regular health checks where they take your blood pressure and quiz you about drinking habits. How often do you have a drink before midday, I was asked? Having gone in ready for a telling-off about my drinking, I came out thinking, maybe I'm not that bad after all.
Few of us, though, are completely honest about how much we drink. Last year, the BBC showed a documentary, still available on the iPlayer, called Drinkers Like Me. The programme looked at drinkers like, well, me, and followed presenter's Adrian Chiles' attempts to cut down on his drinking. One of the most striking statistics from the programme was that the UK buys twice as much alcohol as it claims to drink.
Attitudes need to change. As Adrian Chiles says in the documentary, alcohol is the one drug that you have to apologise for not taking. Pubs and restaurants can help here – there are now some half-decent non-alcoholic beers like Nanny State and Adnam's Ghost Ship, but my experience in Salisbury this last month is that the non-alcoholic option is often limited or non-existent. The thirst for such drinks is growing, but many of our city's landlords are yet to catch up.


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St. Hereticus and the Gospel of Americanism
Travis McMacken (of the excellent Helmut Gollwitzer book), reminds us of Robert McAffee Brown's alter ego St. Hereticus. For many years, St. Hereticus was a regular contributor to Christianity and Crisis, lampooning American Christianity and the peculiarities of modern theology.
In particular, Travis notes Hereticus's article on "Americanity" which seems very current these days:
Although this is a religion of fairly recent origins as world religions go (it is less than two hundred years old as I count time), it has in recent years become, so its adherents would claim, the most important. It cannot with total accuracy be called a world religion, since there are still a great many people in such colonies as Europe, Asia, Africa, the Far East, the Near East, and the Arctic and Antarctic regions who have not yet been converted by its missionaries, though in the last named region there have been some indications recently of a shift in sentiment among the Penguins.*
Of particular note is Hereticus's description of Americanity's understanding of monotheism and idolatry. He writes:
Wherein lies the great appeal of this religion? Most significantly perhaps in (1) the assurance with which it can claim to be the final hope of mankind; (2) the exclusiveness with which it can assert in the name of its deity, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," which in a briefly and more up-to-date translation goes, "America First"; (3) the wisdom of its benevolence program and almsgiving, which demands only that the recipients subscribe 100 percent to the creed of Americanity; and (4) the dedication of its priest-group, all of whom are prepared that heaven and earth should quite literally pass away before one jot or tittle of their creed be modified.
Hereticus (and Brown) were often prophetic, but at the time that he was writing, this was no great revelation of some future state of American religion. The first religion of America has always been America. And the unique theology of America has always been as it was described by H. Richard Niebuhr:
A God without wrath brought a people without sin to a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.
Thus has it ever been. The challenge of Christianity in America is always to distinguish itself from American Christianity.
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Researchers and policymakers have warned that if the autonomous systems we're increasingly integrating into our lives are not carefully designed, there could be serious repercussions. But there are also opportunities to ensure that human values stay at the center of new advances in artificial intelligence.
At this critical moment, Northeastern is launching the Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence, a pioneering research hub that will place human skills and intelligence at the forefront of artificial intelligence development, from the earliest design steps to the final implementation.
The university is allocating $50 million for the new institute, in which leading experts in the humanities, law, public policy, machine learning, health, security, and sustainability will collaborate to develop solutions to the world's challenges.
New Northeastern-Gallup poll: People in the US, UK, and Canada want to keep up in the artificial intelligence age. They say employers, educators, and governments are letting them down.
"This new institute, the first of its kind, will focus on enabling artificial intelligence and humans to collaborate interactively around solving problems in health, security, and sustainability," Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun wrote to the university's students, faculty, and staff. "We believe that the true promise of AI lies not in its ability to replace humans, but to optimize what humans do best."
In launching the Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence, Northeastern will hire as many as 30 faculty members to design the future of autonomous systems, one in which people are helped by machines rather than replaced by them. Including the university's existing experts in this field, up to 50 professors and researchers will collaborate across a variety of disciplines, including computing, digital humanities, law, and materials science.
In addition, by accessing Northeastern's global network of co-op employers, the institute will develop new technologies and applications in partnership with businesses, government, and non-governmental organizations.
The institute launches in advance of an anticipated announcement by the National Science Foundation to invest up to $1 billion on a broad research initiative to advance U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence, adding to the growing list of government agencies that are committing strategic thinking and dollars to the development of artificial intelligence.
The expansion of human-based artificial intelligence builds on interdisciplinary efforts that are already underway at Northeastern. The university's Institute for Experiential Robotics brings together engineers, ethicists, sociologists, and economists to develop machines that can learn and execute human behaviors.
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They have also used machine learning to help figure out which apps on your phone are leaking your personal information, and developed a tool that uses machine learning algorithms and natural language processing models to sift through and make sense of scientific literature for healthcare providers.
"Our research here is use-inspired, and we have the ability to cross over from classic computer science into engineering, into ethics, into data visualization and art," said James C. Bean, the provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Northeastern. "We need to be creating those AI modules that are defining what the new culture is going to be."
Earlier this year, a collaboration between researchers in Northeastern's Ethics Institute and global professional services company Accenture produced a report that provided organizations a framework for creating ethics committees to help guide the development of smart machines.
Northeastern also prepares students to thrive in the age of artificial intelligence by emphasizing uniquely human skills in the form of a curriculum called humanics. Humanics integrates technological, data, and human literacies into learning in order to prepare people to do what intelligent machines cannot: create, collaborate and empathize.
The humanics curriculum is a key piece of the university's strategic plan, Northeastern 2025—a blueprint for Northeastern's evolution in the age of artificial intelligence.
"We are building on substantial strengths across all colleges in the university," said Carla Brodley, dean of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences. "Experiential AI is highly relevant to our mission."
Ian Thomsen contributed to this report.
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People want to keep up in the artificial intelligence age. Employers, educators, and governments are letting them down.
A first-of-its-kind international poll conducted by Northeastern and Gallup finds that majorities of people in the U.S., U.K., and Canada are optimistic about the future of artificial intelligence. They also fear that institutions are failing to provide lifelong learning in the new era of automation.
by Ian Thomsen June 27, 2019
'It's been exciting to see how students lead the way'
Northeastern is leading the way in the type of learning and knowledge that separates humans from machines. Uta Poiger, dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, sat down with News@Northeastern to discuss her vision for integrating the liberal arts and new digital proficiencies.
by Ian Thomsen May 7, 2019
American democracy is a dumpster fire. We can still save it.
Ask David Lazer what he thinks about the current state of American democracy, and he'll show you a picture of…
State-of-the-art drone-testing facility opens on the Burlington campus
BURLINGTON, Massachusetts—Northeastern formally opened a state-of-the-art research facility at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday that was attended by military and…
Artificial intelligence can reflect human bias, but it can also help undo it
Algorithmic predictions are ubiquitous these days—think of Amazon recommending a book based on past purchases. More controversial use arises when…
This new learning tool helps students get the most out of their experiences at Northeastern and beyond
Whether they're conducting research in Antarctica, working at a supply chain company in China, attending a lecture on the internet…
Northeastern finalizes partnership agreement with New College of the Humanities in London
Northeastern University last week finalized a partnership with New College of the Humanities, a private college in central London, formalizing…


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I've been totally obsessed with the color RED as of late, and these shoes (my latest purchase from ASOS, which I sadly think are sold out) are 100% to blame. From bright reds, to more tangy orange versions, to the deepest burgundy shades, I'm fully embracing the color... so expect to see a ton of it on me in the next few weeks, unless Micol somehow intervenes. Given my new obsession, it's only natural that I adore this dress, as the original plaid print incorporates just about every shade of red that could possibly exist. I also love seeing a plaid print used on something besides a button down shirt, and elevated with a flirty lace trim. Micol commented that it's a bit mini on me... but with a pair of shorts tossed on underneath I didn't feel so bad.
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From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, this is a dark fable of lost faith and awakening love amidst the moors.
Fetherhoughton is a drab, dreary town somewhere in a magical, half-real 1950s north England, a preserve of ignorance and superstition protected against the advance of reason by its impenetrable moor-fogs. Father Angwin, the town's cynical priest, has lost his faith, and wants nothing more than to be left alone. Sister Philomena strains against the monotony of convent life and the pettiness of her fellow nuns. The rest of the town goes about their lives in a haze, a never-ending procession of grim, grey days stretching ahead of them.
Yet all of that is about to change. A strange visitor appears one stormy night, bringing with him the hint, the taste of something entirely new, something unknown. But who is Fludd? An angel come to shake the Fetherhoughtonians from their stupor, to reawaken Father Angwin's faith, to show Philomena the nature of love? Or is he the devil himself, a shadowy wanderer of the darkest places in the human heart?
Full of dry wit, compassionate characterisations and cutting insight, Fludd is a brilliant gem of a book, and one of Hilary Mantel's most original works.
'Fludd is a funny, exquisitely written story of priests and nuns in fifties England, but it is also a questioning, intellectual book that applies a profound thoughtfulness to various abtruse areas of religious (or supernatural) belief ... A faultless comic masterpiece.' - Literary Review
'Good morality tales are unusual; but rarer still are books that genuinely make you laugh out loud.' - Spectator
'Hilary Mantel brings together the miraculous and mundane, the dreadful and the ridiculous in a novel of imagination and skill.' - Financial Times
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Sky Green, Taichung, Taiwan. Photographer: Kuomin Lee
Taichung, Taiwan – WOHA has announced the completion of their first project in Taichung, Taiwan. In 2012, WOHA was invited by the Taichung City Government and Feng Chia University to bring its exhibition "Breathing Architecture" to Taichung. This exhibition was part of a programme initiated by the city government's Gateway Project Masterplan which focused on the design principles of sustainability, low carbon emissions and smart cities. The government was in the process of drafting new regulations to make Taichung a greener, more liveable city in its next phase of development.
The developer Golden Jade, with Feng Chia University as an advisor, commissioned WOHA to design a green and sustainable mixed-use development in the heart of the city, the first of its kind in Taichung. Sky Green comprises residential apartments and retail shops, as well as generous recreational facilities in two towers.
"We are very happy to have been a part of this collaboration between policy makers, academia and the private sector to design the future of sustainable housing in Taichung," said Mun Summ Wong, Founding Director of WOHA. "One building can't change a city but we hope that Sky Green is the first of many more," added Mun Summ Wong.
Green landscaping is a key material palette in creating building envelope for the rising residential towers as well as bringing nature into high-rise living. Tower A apartments have extended balconies with trees and Tower B apartments have a soft, green creeper mesh screen on their facade. Sky gardens at every five floors within the block dissolve boundaries between interior and exterior as the residents enjoy nature and fresh air in a high-rise environment.
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Obama Speech: Ambitious Goals Overshadow Spending Restraints
President Obama's State of the Union address met its promise for civility but the math behind his proposals didn't entirely add up.
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Last year he proposed a three-year spending freeze that couldn't pass a Democratic Congress; on Tuesday he proposed a five-year spending freeze.
The speech was also noteworthy for what it omitted. There was no mention of climate change and only a passing reference to financial regulation, two of Obama's major legislative measures. There was also no mention of Guantanamo Bay, nor of gun control-issues many expected to come up in light of the recent Tucson shootings.
In describing his plans for the future, the president often left out facts that would help Americans judge the likelihood of successes. For instance, he mentioned a desire to expand nuclear, wind and other "clean" energies as he promised to make America 80 percent reliant on clean energies by 2035. But the Obama administration has only been able to achieve a single new loan guarantee for a new nuclear reactor, and Congress recently drastically reduced the Obama administration's request for more nuclear loan funds.
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The Republican responses had a few of their own omissions. Both Reps. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Michele Bachmann of Minnesota criticized Obama for running up $3.1 trillion in debt in his first two years without mentioning that Republican President George W. Bush increased the national debt by $4.4 trillion during his presidency. Bachmann also criticized the stimulus program without mentioning the letters she wrote requesting stimulus funds for pet projects, as documented in the Center's story "Stimulating Hypocrisy."
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