Lectures

In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, Diego Rivera became one of the most famous painters in the world, as both his medium of public murals and his themes of popular culture and social transformation attracted new patrons, publics, and disciples. This communist artist’s reputation diminished during the Cold War, yet his life and art can tell us much about a period of revolutionary possibilities when artists and their art became important agents of social change.

Scott MacMillan is making a stop at UPS on a tour celebrating the launch of his new book, Hope Over Fate: Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty. He is also speaking at universities such as Harvard, Tulane, and UCLA.

This is an ASUPS sponsored event.

Morphological diversity in response to landscape and climate factors.

Drinks and snacks will be served at this event with Amanda Peng, University of Oregon.

Poached ivory is consolidated, packaged, and shipped from Africa to Asia by large transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). When such a shipment is intercepted, we want to know (a) where did the ivory come from, and (b) which shipments likely came from the same TCO? Microsatellite typing can localize many elephants, though some individuals are frustratingly difficult. Adding the assumption that individuals in a single seizure are clustered relative to the whole continent improves assignment, though with some risk of over-clustering.

Watching the grass grow: How nature-based solutions can address the climate crisis.

This workshop tailored to faculty is about creating a faculty-led study abroad program. 

This event is an information session on study abroad programs in France and Francophone areas. French desserts will be served.

Can you think of a humanities course you took (or taught) that did not include any materials translated into English? Translation is absolutely vital to the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Yet, most educators rarely foreground translation as a linguistic and cultural enterprise in the classroom.

This will be an information session about studying abroad at Tel Aviv University.