Part of the Series: Why the Humanities Matter in the 21st Century

Dan Wallach, Rice Univ., discusses STAR-Vote which represents an opportunity for sophisticated technologies to be designed into a new voting system with real world constraints.

Addiction is epidemic in our society, but we react by regarding it as a crime rather than a disease, even less so as a disease of dislocation and spiritual emptiness. Gabor Maté, a

André Aciman received his Ph. D. and A.M. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Lehman College.

Daniel Herschlag Stanford Medical School

Forms of the Informal: Modernist Poetry, Urbanism, and Street Life in 1920s Brazil, Brun0 Carvalho, D'04, Comparative Literature, Princeton University

A lecture on slavery and marriage in 18th-century Colombia, w/Sherwin Bryant (Northwestern), Author of Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito

Unraveling the Molecular Basis of Chromosome Positioning. Adrienne Perkins will host Eric Joyce PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania.

Computational Approaches to Biodiversity Informatics. Mark Laidre will host Keith Crandall PhD, George Washington Univ.

Charis Kubrin, Dept of Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine. This lecture explores the disturbing practice of rap music lyrics being introduced as a defendant's guilt.