The Eighteenth Annual Spring Speech Festival 2009
About this Episode
Recent Episodes from Arts and Sciences
Conversation with Edel Rodriguez
Israel/Gaza: Past, Present, Future
Psychology Colloquium: Insights from psychology for climate change communications
Climate scientists have long been warning that climate change will bring more frequent severe weather events around the world. International organizations such as the IPCC, United Nations Foundation and others face the challenge of communicating about climate scientists' projections with audiences who don't have a background in climate science. I will discuss insights for climate change communications from my research program on public perceptions of climate change and severe weather. These implications also apply to science communication about other complex topics.
Conversations with the Cuban writers Carlos Manuel Álvarez and Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo in class
Moderated by Professor Theodore Henken from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, this video includes a recording of Professor Henken’s class with two Cuban guest speakers, Carlos Manuel Álvarez and Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo.
The lecture provides a book discussion of the student reading entitled: Cuba on the Verge: 12 writers on continuity and change in Havana and across the country. The book spans from politics and art to music and baseball in a timely look at the Cuban society’s profound transformations. Among the authors for the book, Carlos Manuel Álvarez. describes his story of being among the last generation of Cubans to be raised under Fidel Castro.