Upcoming Events

October 2022

Oct

The Frontiers of Human Evolution: Where Does Radical Innovation Come From?

Lecture/Readings

Where do large-scale changes in human evolution and economic progress come from? And how can we apply these insights to today?

In this open lecture, the biologist Stuart Kauffman and strategy scholar Teppo Felin address these questions. They discuss specific examples of technological innovation in the human evolutionary record and highlight their implications for understanding disruptive innovation and economic growth today.

11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Huntsman Hall | More Info

Oct

UWLP Book Club: How Women Rise By Sally Helgesen & Marshall Goldsmith

Lecture/Readings

Dates & Times:
Session 1 Afternoon: Thu, Oct. 6, 2022, 12:00-1:00pm
Session 1 Evening: Thu, Oct. 6, 2022, 7:30-8:30pm
Session 2 Afternoon: Thu, Nov. 10, 2022, 12:00-1:00pm
Session 2 Evening: Thu, Nov. 10, 2022, 7:30-8:30pm

The Utah Women & Leadership Project invites you to join us for our fall book club. Across two sessions, we will discuss Helgesen and Goldsmith’s book How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job.

Helgesen and Goldsmith “see that women face specific and often different roadblocks from men as they advance in the workplace.” They identify 12 habits that may hold women back, such as reluctance to claim their achievements, and building rather than leveraging relationships. Helgesen and Goldsmith weave together research findings and stories to describe each habit and explain how to build new strategies. Whether you are in the workforce or not, these book club discussions will challenge your thinking and help you consider expanding your positive influence in Utah.

Register to attend.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Online/Virtual | More Info

Oct

LAEP Speaker Series: Mark van der Zalm

Lecture/Readings

“Tactical Urbanism :  Action Sports recreation and the City”   Over two decades of practise have given Mark and his consulting practise a unique perspective on how adults and youth adapt urban environments for recreation.  With work specifically in Parkour, Skateboarding, and BMX facility design – Mark’s team has questioned the current perspective on placing all ‘play’ in parks or sanctioned facilities. Through engagement, observation, and absorption of youth culture – the VDZ+A team has prepared facility design to support socialization, and skill development for non traditional sports. In recent years, greater emphasis on supporting diversity, inclusion of varied backgrounds, skills, and abilities have come centre stage.  A larger push to adapt the city to recreation in a Safe and engaging way.  Making transportation, or a trip to the corner market – more of a recreational experience!

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Fine Arts Visual | More Info

Oct

Arrington Mormon History Lecture: Historical Archaeology and the Latter-day Saint Past

Lecture/Readings

This lecture will review the history of archaeological investigations at sites connected to the Latter-day Saint past and examine the ways historical archaeology has contributed to our understanding of that past. Examples from various sites, where historical archaeologists have utilized a wide range of methods, illustrate the potential of historical archaeology to confirm, complete, correct, and sometimes confuse our understanding of the Latter-day Saint past.

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall | More Info

Oct

Supernatural Lore of Southern Utah

Lecture/Readings

From the fanciful and revelatory to the horrifying and sorrowful, the folklore of Southern Utah hints at a complex history. Whether spiritual or spooky, home-grown legends are a window to understanding local culture. Drawing on information from over 200 interviews, Darren M. Edwards investigates the tales and myths that permeate and persist in communities throughout red rock country.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | USU Libraries | More Info

Oct

47th Annual Honors Last Lecture Featuring Dr. David Brown

Lecture/Readings | Common Hour

On Tuesday, October 25, 2022, from 3:00-4:00 p.m., in the Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall, the 2022 Honors Outstanding Professor, Dr. David Brown (Mathematics and Statistics), will connect the astonishing effectiveness of mathematics in the physical sciences to its place in our everyday lives, arguing that math is indeed our “sixth sense.”

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Russell/Wanlass Performance Hall | More Info

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