We often experience the feeling that we know, and very often we are simply wrong. Cooke explores recent science about the ways in which people often don't, or can't, know. She suggests that a little undermining of individual confidence in his or her feelings of certainty will lead to greater compassion, better education, and a more robust social and political structure.
Kathy J. Cooke is Professor of History and Director of the University Honors Program at Quinnipiac University.
The first and most important factor in determining where you need to go is knowing where you are. Timothy Deenihan describes techniques he uses as an actor in his quest for being 'in the moment' and considers the ways in which they are vital to us all.
Tim Deenihan is a professional actor, writer, and trainer, with over two decades in the industry, both here and in the UK & Ireland. His work has been recognized for the Critic's Choice by both the New York Times and Time Out: New York as well as having earned him a Best Actor Nomination for his role in the UK series, Brookside.
Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel, "Learning Visual Persuasion." (This talk cancelled due to speaker illness.)
Not only words, but visual media of all kinds -- photos, graphics, videos -- carry rhetorical dimensions. In short, images persuade. Understanding how to visualize and communicate with images is important for the practice of courtroom attorneys, and so law students need to learn the dynamics of visual persuasion. It is also important for all of us who live in an increasingly media rich social environment.
Neal Feigenson is Professor of Law at Quinnipiac, where he has taught since 1987. He has researched and written about the cognitive and social psychology of legal decision making, doing experimental studies and examining how lawyers’ and jurors’ speech reflects the habits of mind that psychologists have described. Some of this work can be found in his book, Legal Blame: How Jurors Think and Talk About Accidents. For the last decade or so he has been studying the uses of visual and multimedia technologies and communication in law practice, and is the co-author (with Spiesel) of Law on Display: The Digital Transformaton of Legal Persuasion and Judgment. Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel are Professors of Law at Quinnipiac University.
Christina Spiesel is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Quinnipiac where she has co-taught Visual Persuasion in the Law since 2000.
She is co-author with Feigenson of Law on Display, and she publishes
regularly on questions of pictures in the law and technology's impact particularly on the legal system. In addition, she is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School and a Fellow of its Information Society Project. Besides teaching and writing, she works as a visual consultant to practicing trial lawyers.
A personal understanding of ADHA is an enlightening source of understanding what it is to live in a hyperlink-enriched world of information. Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and similar information media create a highly multifaceted, multidirectional information environment well suited to the ADHD mind.
Theodore Siggelakis is a senior at Quinnipiac University.
The Anthro 300 class wanted to challenge other students at Quinnipiac University to think critically about their current and future food practices. Entomophagy - eating insects - has recently been gaining momentum in the US and Europe as an environmentally friendly and healthy "micro crop" for sustainable farming. However, it is a taboo to eat insects in these parts of the world. This talk introduces Entomophagy 101 and presents the results of Anthro 300's efforts to challenge this taboo at Quinnipiac University and beyond.
This talk is produced collaboratively by the students of Anthropology 300: Ancient Food for Thought, a course that explores food customs across time and space. The producing team comprises 19 students ranging from sophomores to seniors, and representing majors from the social sciences, humanities, health sciences and communications.