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Rhett Talks - Roy Grundmann - Labour in a Single Shot
From Rhett Talks, September 16, 2014
“Labour in a Single Shot†showcases the work of research in Cinema and Media Studies. The presentation will explore a three-year video workshop organized by the Goethe-Institute and the filmmaker [...]Harun Farocki (who recently passed away). Farocki visited 14 different cities in the world (including Boston) and taught a group of lay persons how to make a very short (1 minute) film about any topic of labor. The presentation will discuss the dynamics of this captivating project.
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Rhett Talks - Jonathon Bethard - Gone but Not Forgotten
From Rhett Talks - September, 16, 2014
Full Title: Gone but Not Forgotten: Forensic Anthropology and the Identification of Missing People
Forensic anthropologists routinely examine skeletonized human remains and assist in generating positive [...]identifications of missing persons. In some instances, positive identifications can take many years or even decades. In this talk, these topics will be discussed and highlighted with a case study of an individual missing for over half a century.
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Rhett Talks - Jennifer Knust - Is There a Bible at All?
From Rhett Talks on September 16, 2014
A description is as follows: “The Bible†is a highly fluid collection of books, not a stable text that stands apart from human history. Codex Sinaiticus, one of the most ancient surviving Bible [...]manuscripts, makes the point: Rediscovered in the 19th century, this 4th century manuscript serves as an important basis both for modern editions of the Greek New Testament and for the English language Bibles used in classes here at BU. Its Old Testament, however, which is in Greek, is important chiefly to scholars; since the Reformation, Protestants have read their Old Testament in Hebrew and by tradition Catholics have preferred the Latin Vulgate. In fact, Sinaiticus’s collection of books, its book order, and the very material from which it is made are strikingly different from what is found in modern Bibles, irrespective of who is reading them. But how can this be? Doesn’t everyone know what “the Bible†is? And doesn’t the Bible stay the same? This Rhett Talk begins with the premise that there is no Bible, not really; instead there are distinctive Bibles that change, sometimes radically, along with the human communities that produce them. The communal character of Bibles, however, does not mean that there can be no god, no faith, and no religion. On the contrary, a recognition that people make Bibles challenges us to ask who is making them and why, opening up new possibilities for understanding across cultures, peoples, places, and times.
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Rhett Talks - Letters To Your Soul - Will Waters
From Rhett Talks - September 8, 2014
A time may come when a piece of literature or art from some distant or long-past place or time might, without warning, touch your life profoundly and intimately. It’s as if this object held a message [...]meant specifically for you, sent down through ages past in search of—precisely—you. When you stumble into receiving such a message, it can feel like a reminder of a larger or deeper self that you’d forgotten you had. What may seem irrational, might just be more common than you think. This Rhett Talk will discuss the way that art or writing from distant places and eras can provoke such feelings.
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Rhett Talks - Billions and Billions of Planets - Andrew West
From Rhett Talks, September 8, 2014
For the first time in human history we know that planets are common around other stars. But most of the stars in our Galaxy (and others) are not like our Sun but cooler, smaller, fainter and smaller stars called [...]red dwarfs. I will give a short presentation about what we know about planets around other stars (called “exoplanetsâ€) and what my research group and I have been doing to study and help characterize the red dwarfs around which most exoplanets orbit.
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