The Helix Center Archives - Page 14 of 14

This roundtable will examine the poetry of Ghalib and the ghazal form by focusing on a single two-line verse as a way to understand the genre as a whole.

Sat
Nov 17th
2012

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Animal Language

This roundtable will examine animal communication through its sonic and phonetic dimensions, exploring how different species transmit and interpret information and what this reveals about communication more broadly.

Sat
Oct 27th
2012

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Male-Male Competition: Globalization, War, and Violence

This roundtable will examine Darwin’s concept of male-male competition and its modern interpretations, including its relevance to human behavior and evolutionary biology.

Fri
Oct 26th
2012

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Life and Movement

This roundtable will examine movement in life through evolution, coordination dynamics, social interaction, kinesthesia, and aesthetics, and how these perspectives help us understand how we move, adapt, and relate to others.

Sun
Oct 14th
2012

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Collaborations: Jazz and Poetry

This roundtable will examine jazz poetry as a written form that engages with the improvisatory, blues-based qualities of jazz, and how poetry can reflect, respond to, and collaborate with musical expression.

Sat
Oct 13th
2012

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Why Do Economists Disagree?

A pre-election roundtable of economic theorists exploring their philosophical convergences and divergences.

Sat
Sep 15th
2012

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What Can Mathematics Teach Us About Mind/Brain?

This roundtable will examine how mathematical models in neuroscience help explain brain function and inform our understanding of the mind.

Sat
May 19th
2012

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Where Does It End?

This roundtable will examine our curiosity about endings and how ideas about the ends of consciousness, life, civilization, and the universe inform one another.

Sat
May 5th
2012

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Where Does It Begin?

This roundtable will examine our curiosity about beginnings, including what constitutes a beginning and how such concepts may apply to both individual consciousness and the universe.

Podcast: The Helix Center

Urdu Poetry: Ghalib and the Ghazal

Animal Language

Male-Male Competition: Globalization, War, and Violence

Collaborations: Jazz and Poetry

Why Do Economists Disagree?

What Can Mathematics Teach Us About Mind/Brain?

Where Does It End?

Where Does It Begin?