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April 18, 2008: Neovi Karakatsanis, Associate Professor of Political
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Life without red blood cells: Exploring the
Dr. Bushnell’s research focuses on the cardiovascular physiology of fishes and sharks. In January of this year he spent 5 weeks in the Southern Ocean as a participant in the Danish government’s Galathea 3 expedition. His presentation will discuss the history of the Galathea expeditions, the biology and oceanography of the Southern Ocean, and some preliminary results of his research into the cardiovascular function of hemoglobinless ice fish.
The Art of the Exhibition: Soviet Socialist
Realism in a National and International Context
Exhibitions, both on the national and international stage, were used during the Stalinist epoch to showcase the political and cultural achievements of the Soviet Union. The 1939 All-Union Agricultural Exhibition, held in Moscow, displayed the alleged successes of collectivization for Soviet citizens while the International Exhibition of Technical Arts, held in Paris in 1937, displayed the glory and might of the Soviet empire for all the world to see. These two exhibitions are examined for how the art and architecture of each embodied the artistic and political policies of the 1930s in Stalin's Soviet Union.
Finding a
500 Year Old Feast: Evidence for Early Global Cuisine
The chroniclers of the European exploration of the Greater Antilles lauded the abundance of edible resources they encountered, yet Christopher Columbus and his sailors often complained of hunger and even starvation. The historical texts, indirectly supported by a lack of faunal and floral remains in the archaeological record, suggest the Europeans refused to eat the same foods that sustained the indigenous people of the Caribbean. New scientific techniques that are able to extract ancient food remains from domestic vessels, however, tell a different story. Fatty acids and other organic molecules preserved within the walls of cooking pots show how the subsistence patterns of both the European and Taíno cultures were rapidly and significantly influenced by their contact. The foods eaten by the Europeans were much the same as those in a typical Taíno meal, and the islanders integrated at least one Old World resource into their own diets. This previously unknown interchange of foodways results in a revision of our understanding about the behaviors of colonizing and colonized peoples.
Germinal: Re-Discovering The Roots In A New Opera
I have been working on the composition of Germinal,
Opera in Three Acts for the last six years. Germinal is a musical
drama set in
The opera will be premiered in
How Human
Genes are Studied by Making Transgenic Animals
Humans are estimated to have about 25,000 genes. Recently, the DNA sequence of humans has been determined, and scientists estimate that the function of about 40% of these genes is completely unknown. As it is obviously unethical to create humans with mutations, we have turned to simpler animals to analyze their function. My research utilizes a molecular, and a genetic approach to determine the function of a gene that is turned on in the human eye and brain. I will describe how I synthesized different versions of this gene, cloned it into a simple model organism, and the insights derived from these experiments.
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April
18, 2008: Neovi Karakatsanis, Associate Professor of
Political Science
American
Involvement in the Colonels’ Greece:
Fact or Fiction?
One of the most commonly-held beliefs in Greece is that the
United States was actively involved in launching and maintaining in power a
military regime that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. This perception of American complicity in the
coup is found in both the popular and scholarly literature and is virtually
universally held by the Greek mass public as well as by the political and
military elites of that country. As one
Greek Parliamentarian told me in a 1994 interview, “[T]he dictatorship … was
one hundred percent American. … There was nothing Greek about it” (Athens,
Greece, 24 March 1994). This perception
of American complicity is so widespread that even
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