Caitlin McDonough-Goldstein | NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Integrative Biology
6015 Vilas Hall @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Caitlin McDonough-Goldstein, Ph.D.
Past Events Category: Lunch Seminars Spring 2025
Rogue Justice: Shifting home ranges across the segregationist landscape of elephant conservation in Malaysia
Aida Arosoaie | M.S., Anthropology
Zoom @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
In this talk, I examine the interrelations between socio-environmental justice and elephant conservation efforts in Malaysia. To this end, I explore the implications of the Elephant Translocation Program—the flagship elephant conservation initiative across peninsular Malaysia—which, …
Physiological Psychology in Early Modern Dance: Rudolf Laban, Wilhelm Wundt, and the Structure of Body-Mind
Andrea Harris | Professor, Dance
6015 Vilas Hall @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
The emergence of “modern dance” around the turn of the twentieth century is an important event in the dance historical narrative. Yet its appearance was the outcome of multiple changes in philosophy, aesthetics, and science …
Monetizing Lives: (How) Should we do it?
Paul Kelleher | Associate Professor, Medical History & Bioethics, Philosophy
6015 Vilas Hall @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Monetized values of human life and death profoundly shape economic evaluations of climate policy. I will explain the general role played by these valuations, and will then discuss three different approaches to valuing mortality risks. …