Kate Kennedy is a research fellow in English and Music at Girton College, University of Cambridge.
Whilst 1914 is now seen as the year in which the world changed forever, 1915 proved to be the most momentous year for the young generation of English poets and composers caught up in the war. In 1915, poet Siegfried Sassoon served in France while Wilfred Owen and Ivor Gurney enlisted. Rupert Brooke and composers William Denis Browne and FS Kelly sailed to Gallipoli never to return.
Kate Kennedy explores the rarely-made connections between these groups to define a body of English ‘war composers’ paralleling the 'war poets' with whose existence we are now so familiar.
This presentation is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Center for Advanced Study at 333-6729 or cas.illinois.edu.
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Carl Wieman is in the Department of Physics and Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics with Eric A. Cornell and Wolfgang Ketterle for production of the first true Bose-Einstein condensate.
Guided by experimental tests of theory and practice, science has advanced rapidly in the past 500 years. Guided primarily by tradition and dogma, science and engineering education meanwhile has remained largely medieval. Research on how people learn is now revealing much more effective ways to teach and evaluate learning than what is in use in the traditional science class. The combination of this research with information technology is setting the stage for a new approach to teaching and learning that can provide the relevant and effective science education for all students that is needed for the 21st century. Although the focus of the talk is on undergraduate science teaching, where the data is the most compelling, the underlying principles come from studies of the general development of expertise and apply widely.
This presentation is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Center for Advanced Study at 333-6729 or cas.illinois.edu
Thanks to the Center for Advanced Study listserv for this information item.
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