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Sara Seager - The Hunt for Planet BFor thousands of years, inspired by the star-filled dark night sky, people have wondered what lies beyond Earth. Today, the search for signs of life is a key factor in modern-day planetary…
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Creating the Art and the Archive - Atlanta Legacy Makers ProjectThe idea for an artistic tribute to Mayors Allen and Jackson was born in 2018 when local developer Gene Kansas invited Gary M. Pomerantz, the author of Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, to speak at…
From Katie Gentilello
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EcoCommons Virtual TourThe area of the EcoCommons located at the corner of Ferst Drive and Hemphill Avenue is eight acres of green space that aims to mimic a traditional piedmont woodland. This section of the EcoCommons…
From Katie Gentilello
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Atlanta Archives Futures PanelThis panel brings together Archivists from the Atlanta area, including Georgia State University, the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, and Clark Atlanta…
From Katie Gentilello
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Paul CraterA quick story from Paul Crater, who is the Atlanta History Center's Vice President of Collections and Research Services. Paul shares how Ivan Allen's first term mayoral papers were…
From Katie Gentilello
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Todd Michney - Welcome and the Story of the Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. Digital ArchiveThis one-day symposium will formally introduce the Mayor Ivan Allen Digital Archive, while at the same time exploring the intersection of archives, Atlanta history, and art. The sessions will…
From Katie Gentilello
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Brian Foo - Morning KeynoteThis presentation is a keynote lecture by artist/computer scientist Brian Foo. Brian is an artist and computer scientist living and working in Washington, DC and New York City. His work focuses on…
From Katie Gentilello
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin - Reflections on Atlanta's "Pragmatic" Civil Rights MovementDelivering the afternoon keynote, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Professor of History at Harvard Law School discusses her recently released biography on…
From Katie Gentilello
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David Coury - The Return of the Ethnostate? The Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Populist TideOver the past decade, Europe has seen a rise in the popularity of right-wing populist parties and Germany has been no exception. While the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) began as an anti-EU…
From Katie Gentilello
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Elizabeth Loftus - The Fiction of MemoryFor several decades, Elizabeth Loftus has been manufacturing memories in unsuspecting minds. Sometimes these techniques change details of events that someone actually experienced. Other times, the…
From Katie Gentilello
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Sarah Myers West - Discriminating Systems: Gender, Race and Power in Artificial IntelligenceThe artificial intelligence industry is in the midst of a crisis in diversity and inclusion: while the representation of women in computer science recently fell below levels in the 1960s, inclusion…
From Katie Gentilello
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Daniel Wood - AnthropocenitectureHow do we design in the age of the Anthropocene? How can we address issues and problems that seem so much bigger than architecture…despite architecture’s proven contributions to global…
From Katie Gentilello
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Margaret Kosal - The Geopolitics of the Rare and Not-So-Rare ElementsChemical elements have played important roles in the geopolitics of modern times and will continue to do so.From Einstein’s 1939 letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt highlighting the need…
From Katie Gentilello
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