In this seminar, Kana Hattori will frankly talk about her lived experience as a female social entrepreneur in Japan.
Join us for this seminar presented by Kendra Hattori, a qualified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher-Level 1 from the Mindfulness Center at Brown University School of Public Health.
Professor Zeitz of the University of San Francisco will explore a variety of wagers and games that practically guarantee a win for the player who makes the best mathematical analysis—and will demonstrate why this is the case.
Overwhelmed by endless streams of content, sophisticated audiences are demanding deeper, more powerful experiences. Innovative technologies enable and inspire new forms of stories and participation, but immersion is not a property of technology, it is a product of a great experience. Mike Monello, Co-founder of Campfire and one of the creators of The Blair Witch Project, shares secrets […]
Dr. Musil specializes in contemporary global sustainability, security, and health issues, as well as Cold War history, culture, and policy.
It’s no secret that the video games industry boasts supremely sexually objectified, stereotyped, and downright oppressive portrayals of women. In this talk Anita Sarkeesian explains why. She will give a broad overview of the culture that sustains harassment, exclusion, and objectification in gaming, from the dynamics of sexist cybermobs to recurring tropes in video games that reinforce sexist conceptions of women, before concluding with a look at a few games that manage to get it right.
This non-partisan talk focuses on the visual, examining misleading charts, graphs, and data maps designed by individuals and organizations from all over the political spectrum.
Callie Crossley, a renowned radio and TV host, commentator, and public speaker, will talk about race, politics and pop culture. She appears on WGBH-TV’s Beat the Press and Morning Edition, examining local and national media coverage, and hosts Basic Black, which focuses on current events concerning communities of color. Crossley is an award-winning journalist and […]
