Please join us for College for a Day on January 8, 2024 as we celebrate our 50th year of bringing professors from top liberal arts colleges to the greater Denver community for a day of lectures; lunch is included.

Please note we are holding this event at a NEW VENUE:

First Plymouth Church

3501 South Colorado Boulevard

Cherry Hills Village, CO 80113

Registration and name tag pick-up will begin at 8:15 am, seating will open at 8:30 and the lectures will begin at 9:30. 

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SPEAKERS 2024:

Michael Dunn, Ph.D.,  Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Business, Skidmore College:

 "The Algorithm Made Me Do It...Grubhub, Uber and More!"

Need an Uber during a dangerous ice storm? No problem. Need takeout during a raging hurricane? You are covered. Ever wonder how from the convenience of your smartphone or computer Grubhub dispatches a stranger to deliver your food, or how Uber beckons a driver to your location, or how upwork.com presents a perfectly curated list of freelancers for your project? The answer is algorithms, and they represent the new frontier in the future of work. Come learn about the implications of algorithms to both work and workers-no math degree required!

Suparna Roychoudhury, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of English, Mount Holyoke College

"Early Modern Science and the Renaissance Imagination"

We will explore the relation between art and science in the early modern period, with special attention to William Shakespeare. At a time when 'art' and 'science' were not meaningfully distinct terms, poets and knowledge-makers could borrow from one another, share modes of inquiry and representation. During this period, as Europe underwent what might be called a series of scientific revolutions, what we would today recognize as scientific work remained in tension with philosophy, pseudoscience, occultism and artisanry. Shakespeare is among the many such artists who engage fruitfully with the epistemological flux of the time as we see in his complex depictions of human cognition. What can we in our own moment learn from the scientific Renaissance? 

Josh de Leeuw, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, Vassar College

 "A Viral Illusion, Electroencephalography and Our Scientific Future"

An age old question in philosophy is whether our perception of the world represents reality as it is or reality as we expect it to be. Modern cognitive science has investigated this question with clever experiments that explore how things like the language that we use may impact what we perceive. In this talk, Professor Leeuw will share the results of an experiment that he conducted with Vassar student to explore this question using electroencephalography (EEG). These results not only tell us something about our perception of the world, but they also reveal deep flaws in how our scientific institutions work. The talk will cover what these problems are, why they exist, and why he nevertheless still believes in the importance and value of scientific research. 

$60 for three lectures and lunch

Register by January 4, 2024

$70 late registration on the day of the event

Registration not refundable

 

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