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October 2021
On October 6, Charley Dewberry will give the first talk in the series "It’s Complicated: The Histories Behind What We Think We Know." Different economic perspectives (free-market capitalism vs. socialism) form one of the major pillars in the current polarity within Western culture, especially in the United States. This class will examine how we [...]
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On October 20, Chris Swanson will give the second talk in the series "It’s Complicated: The Histories Behind What We Think We Know." Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle suggests that at the most fundamental atomic level the physical world is fully random and uncaused in the usual sense. Due to the sensational nature of the claim, much [...]
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On November 3, Gil Greco will give the third talk in the series "It’s Complicated: The Histories Behind What We Think We Know." The history of the Civil War is fraught with controversy. Was the Confederacy a treasonous faction betraying the Constitution or a sovereign nation state defending its territory? Was the war fought over [...]
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On November 17, Chris Alderman will give the fourth talk in the series "It’s Complicated: The Histories Behind What We Think We Know." A "critical" theory has as its goal what philosopher Max Horkheimer called "man's emancipation from slavery." This seems like a goal that anyone could get behind—that everyone should get behind, some would say. [...]
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On December 1, Eliot Grasso will give the fifth talk in the series "It’s Complicated: The Histories Behind What We Think We Know?" If you've ever enjoyed an opera, symphony, or concerto, if you've ever appreciated a film's music score, then you have experience with classical music. But, how did music become classical? Have [...]
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