The Kim and Eric Giler Humanities
Lecture
Kim and Eric Giler have established the Giler Humanities Lecture Series, which supports visits from outside scholars as well as internal workshop events for students in the Humanities Scholars Program and across campus. Kim Giler is a 1978 graduate of H&SS with a degree in English and Spanish. Her husband, a 1977 graduate from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, is the founder and CEO of Brooktrout Inc., which develops high tech telecommunications equipment.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
4:30 p.m.
Baker Hall 136A (Adamson Wing)
Sarah Igo, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania. "The Averaged American: Citizens and Statistics in the 20th Century." Baker Hall 136A (Adamson Wing), Carnegie
Mellon main Oakland campus
Igo is the author of The
Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public
(Harvard University Press, 2006), which explores the relationship between
survey data—opinion polls, sex surveys, consumer research—and
modern understandings of self and nation.
March 22, 2007. Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, author: "What is it Now?: An ethnographic study of defense simulations-in-the-making." Baker Hall 136A (Adamson Wing), Carnegie
Mellon main Oakland campus
Ghamari-Tabrizi earned a doctorate in 1993 from the University of California at Santa Cruz in the social studies of science and technology. In 1996-98, she was a post-doctoral fellow in the history of cold war science and technology at Carnegie Mellon.Her first book was The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War (Harvard University Press, 2005). In 2003 the National Science Foundation awarded her a grant to underwrite two years of ethnographic fieldwork to explore the cultural and social meanings of the production of military simulations and war games against the background of America’s media-saturated society.
The National Science Foundation awarded Ghamari-Tabrizi a grant in February 2003 to underwrite two years of ethnographic field work at several U.S. sites where the military and sectors of the entertainment industry are collaboratively producing war games, interactive training simulations, virtual environments and narrative films visualizing future technologies, tactics and scenarios. Her new research explores the cultural and social meanings of military simulations and war games against the background of America's media-saturated society. Among the topics that Ghamari-Tabrizi will discuss at Carnegie Mellon is the U.S. Army's "America's Army" video game.
April 28, 2006. Margalit Fox, The New York Times: "Come On Over to the Dark Side: The Obituary as Social History." Baker Hall 136A (Adamson Wing), Carnegie
Mellon main Oakland campus
As an obituary news reported for The New York Times, Fox has dispatched some of the leading cultural figures of our day, including Betty Friedan, Susan Sontag, the literary critic Wayne C. Booth and the philosopher Paul Ricoeur. She has also written the obituaries of many of the unsung heroes who have managed, quietly, to touch history, among them the lexicographer who wrestled the Oxford English Dictionary into the modern age, a textile conservator who washed Napoleon's nightshirt, and the home economist who invented Stove Top Stuffing. Fox's work has been anthologized in "Best Newspaper Writing, 2005" and elsewhere.
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