13021. "Save Homer G. Phillips and All Public Hospitals": African American Grassroots Activism and the D... (1:25:00)

Date:
2022-09-30
Main contributors:
Sanford III, Ezelle
Summary:
Lecture delivered by Ezelle Sanford III, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University) on September 30, 2022. This event is a part of the IUPUI Center for Africana Studies and Culture's "Black Health Equity Speaker Series" and was cosponsored by the IUPUI Medical Humanities and Health Studies program and the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society. Includes an introduction by Leslie Etienne (Founding Executive Director of the Center for Africana Studies and Culture and Director of Africana Studies Program, IUPUI).

13023. As central banks address climate (22:31)

Date:
2020-02-24
Main contributors:
Saphir, Ann, Miles, Emily, Shanahan, James
Summary:
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco hosted in late 2019 the Fed's first conference focused on climate change. There, researchers presented on topics ranging from the effects of climate change on the global workforce to the interaction between pollution and interest rate. But the day kicked off with one series of questions: why this and why now? In this episode, with the help of Reuters reporter Ann Saphir, we examine central banking's climate risks and the Fed's engagement with those issues.

13024. Duke Lightning Talk (2019 Spring Symposium) (01:58)

Date:
2019-05-16
Main contributors:
Sara Duke, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
Summary:
My research project topic models the letters of Alexander Hamilton. I will compare the results of a topic model of Hamilton's outgoing correspondence from his arrival in the American colonies (after October 1772) to his death (July 1804) with the lyrics from Hamilton: An American Musical. In doing so, I study the extent to which the vocabulary of Hamilton's letters shape the musical's lyrics,and how this shift reflects changes in perceptions of his place within eighteenth-century American political culture. This project serves as the foundation for my MLIS digital humanities capstone project.

13026. Inequities in the Ecosystem (03:22)

Date:
2020-07-27
Main contributors:
Sarah Hare, Julie Marie Frye, Beth Lewis Samuelson
Summary:
The sixth chalk talk in the series, this video describes inequities in journal publishing. The video also explains how disparities in information access impact both researchers and citizens.

13027. Journals in Higher Education (04:00)

Date:
2020-07-27
Main contributors:
Sarah Hare, Julie Marie Frye, Beth Lewis Samuelson
Summary:
The fifth chalk talk in the series, this video describes the benefits of publishing articles in journals. The video also explains how scholars assess journals and how the ownership of scholarly journals has shifted.

13028. Transforming the Information Ecosystem (03:42)

Date:
2020-07-27
Main contributors:
Sarah Hare, Julie Marie Frye, Beth Lewis Samuelson
Summary:
The seventh chalk talk in the series, this video describes new models that broaden information access. The video also explains how students can actively make the information ecosystem more equitable.

13029. From "Mr. Mom" to "Deadbeat Dads": Why paternal commitment is so variable in the human species an... (1:16:50)

Date:
2013-04-04
Main contributors:
Sarah Hrdy
Summary:
Compared to other mammals, human offspring are slow-maturing and outrageously costly to rear, yet men's motivation to care for children is highly variable. Some fathers will do anything to remain nearby and care for their children while others (even men certain of their paternity) act as if they don't know they have children. Most fall someplace in between, prompting evolutionists to ask how Darwinian natural selection could have favored production of such costly children without concurrent selection pressures on fathers to provide what progeny need to survive? Resolving this paradox of “facultative fathering” requires us to consider the deep history of the human family, and in doing so to rethink the tremendous potential for nurture that resides in human males.

13030. The origin of emotionally modern humans: How did humans become such "other-regarding" apes? (1:25:56)

Date:
2013-04-02
Main contributors:
Sarah Hrdy
Summary:
Humans are remarkably similar to other apes. Like us, chimpanzees and orangutans are extremely clever, use tools and exhibit rudimentary understanding of causality and what others intend. However, other apes are not nearly as good at understanding the intentions of others nor nearly so eager to accommodate or help them. By contrast, right from an early age, humans are eager to help and share. It was this combination of understanding what others intend along with impulses to help and please them that enabled our ancestors to coordinate behavior in pursuit of common goals—with spectacular consequences later on. So how and why did such other-regarding capacities emerge in creatures as self-serving as non-human apes are? And why did they emerge in the line leading to the genus Homo, but not in other apes? In her lecture, Sarah Hrdy explains why she became convinced that the psychological and emotional underpinnings for these "other-regarding" impulses emerged very early in hominin evolution, as byproducts of shared parental and alloparental care and provisioning of young. According to widely accepted chronology, large-brained, anatomically modern humans evolved by 200,000 years ago, while behaviorally modern humans, capable of symbolic thought and language, evolved more recently still, in the last 150,000 or so years. But Hrdy hypothesizes that emotionally modern humans, interested in the mental and subjective states of others emerged far earlier, perhaps by the beginning of the Pleistocene 1.8 million years ago.