Sentences with phrase «interesting lectures on»

A.I.R. also hosts interesting lectures on feminism and art.

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Seizing on the uptick in interest in Rand, New American Library has recently published a series of edited lectures by Leonard Peikoff, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, to help expand our understanding of objectivism.

New American Library has published a series of lectures about objectivism, seizing on the uptick in Ayn Rand interest among entrepreneurs.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Similarly, one might be concerned that Luther's comparative lack of interest in the sacraments, innocent enough in his early lectures on the Psalms, is growing somewhat ominous when he finds it possible to expound Romans without mentioning baptism.

Ranade agreed that «the Christian civilization which came to India from the West was the main instrument of renewal» of India which finds expression in the new love of municipal freedom and civil virtues, aptitude for mechanical skill and love of science and research, chivalrous respect of womanhood etc.; and it is interesting that his lecture on his new concept of «Indian Theism» (a redefinition of Visishtadvaita in the light of Protestant Christian thought) as the basis of national renewal of India was delivered in the chapel of the Wilson College Bombay.

As to obligations of a more personal nature I have many people to thank — colleagues who have advised me, students at Union Theological Seminary who have stimulated me with their responsive interest, members of the congregation of The Riverside Church, New York, who, by their attentive listening to mid-week lectures on the subjects handled in this book, have kept alive my confidence that even difficult and recondite problems concerning the Bible are of vital, contemporary importance.

Friedrich Delitzsch, the German Assyriologist gave an interesting series of lectures on the subject as far back as 1902 in front of Kaiser Wilhelm II and a select audience of German theologians and leading academics that caused a scandal at the time.

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.

(In the course of the nineteenth century interest in hermeneutics continually diminished, and lectures on hermeneutics disappeared from the lecture lists.

I had been asked by the university of a non-Christian religious community, especially interested in the history of Christian missions, to give a lecture on the origin of Protestant missions in German Pietism and English Puritanism of the eighteenth century.

Whether in the classrooms on this campus or the lecture halls of other colleges, I have found that surprising numbers of white students (who are nothing if not middle class) are deeply interested in the study and application of religion.

The surge of interest in umami and its history will be explored, along with ways of creating boosting the umami profile in everyday cooking, through a unique blend of lecture, tasting and hands - on activities.

Jake supports The Good Food Institute's mission by increasing the number of students at Stanford interested in pursuing clean protein entrepreneurship through maximizing GFI's visibility on campus, planning events, guest lectures, and more.

She lectures on disclosure policies and how you talk to children about non-traditional family building with the focus being the best interest of the child.

Go to MIT's OpenCourseWare, find a topic you're interested in, download a bunch of MP3s of lectures on the topic, and listen to them while you're doing household chores.

There are a lot of methods that we use that don't work well in group classes, like one - on - one discussion, hands - on activities, more field trips, special interest projects, etc. and some of their methods don't work well for home schooling, like lectures and extensive workbook work (especially for the younger children, under grades 5 or 6, where hands - on experience is what they remember).

Considering this percentage in an auditorium full of Oxford students and faculty, who had specifically come to attend a lecture on the European Union, one can get an idea of just how strong the interest there is among the European public.

The 12th in the series, the «Kronti Ne Akwamu» lecture would feature prominent scholars and practitioners of international and local stature, whose interests and works focus on promotion of democracy, good governance and inclusive development.

Her interest in social work education led Bridget to become a practice teacher and training manager, going on to lecture at Coventry University, and becoming head of the social work department at Oxford Brookes University.

Hunting the Right Light Cash got hooked on astronomy as an 8 - year - old, casting aside his earlier interests in dinosaurs and medieval history after hearing a lecture about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

When someone asks you who you are and what you do — whether it's a random stranger on a conference elevator (who may just end up being your next boss), or a Nobel Prize — winner sitting next to you at dinner after an on - campus lecture — your answer needs to be clear, crisp, accurate, interesting, informative, pleasant, friendly, optimistic, articulate, and succinct all in a single, relaxed burst of speech measured in seconds, not minutes.

Active Physics, a course based on the textbook Six Ideas That Shaped Physics by Thomas A. Moore of Pomona College, has its roots in the 1980s when educators, dissatisfied with lecture courses, became interested models of instruction that require students to take more responsibility for their own learning.

The course consists of faculty lectures on videos and printable PowerPoint slides that examine topics such as «ownership of material and data,... authorship, [and] conflict of interest,» as illustrated by real - life dilemmas.

It shall be a part of the business of these general meetings to receive the Address of the President of the last meeting; to hear such reports on scientific subjects as, from their general importance and interests, the Standing Committee shall elect; also to receive from the chairman of the Sections abstracts of the proceedings of their respective Sections; and to listen to communications and lectures explanatory of new and important discoveries and researches in science, and new inventions and processes in the arts.

The school also includes a tour of several related Chalk River facilities, a dinner featuring a guest speaker, and an evening public lecture on a topic of general interest.

I offer presentations (in person or via webinar) on the topics below or can tailor a lecture based on your staff's interests.

Your IHMC lecture on metabolic state is really interesting.

For any physiotherapists reading this and interested in doing my Masterclasses (now available on webinar for the Theory component (see here) you will see that «The Pitfalls of Core Stability Training» is Lecture 18 in Stage 4.

One of the most interesting lectures I attended during that information packed weekend was given by Dr. Bruce Rind MD, a holistic endocrinologist whose talk focused on spotting and reversing thyroid and adrenal problems.

While most of these aren't people whose lectures you'd want to attend, everyone has some interesting things to say about their respective profession and input on That Evening Sun.

Nathalie has lectured on costume design (in which she takes a special interest) and the early history of cinema and conducted feature interviews at literary events like the International Festival of Authors and the Toronto Comics Arts Festival.

Bremer's interest lies in researching whether game - based training would allow doctors, nurses and administrators to learn and retain more information about how to respond to these scenarios than if hospitals relied on the usual training «based on lectures and literature only».

«Whether organizing trips to New York City to see the opera, announcing evening lectures and other events through the Special Studies Facebook group, or advising fellow students on course offerings, his genuine interest in all of us was felt and greatly appreciated.»

We heard additional lectures on the specific areas of education in which we were interested.

It is all the more interesting that we find a significant positive effect of time spent on lecture, despite the presumably noisy measure of in - class time use.

The staff member who heads the year - old computer program has used «wine and cheese parties» to stimulate the faculty's interest in attending lectures on microcomputers.

During her retirement, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell maintained her interest in the women's rights movement by writing lectures on the importance of education.

Looking for a pair of his beige dress socks, a man named Richard wanders into his «Walken» closet, where Christopher lectures him in a surreal exchange on the merits of being an interesting person, and eventually ends up behind the driver's seat of the new 2016 Kia Optima.

Some of the more interesting features included text on one page, and a video playing on the other page, which might be good for distance learning or your professor making custom lecture notes.

Prof. Berndt's lecture will focus on three aspects: 1) the ir / relevance of traditional Japanese painting for contemporary manga; 2) manga museums compared to recent manga exhibitions in Japanese art museums; and 3) the unilateral interest in manga by contemporary artists such as Murakami Takashi and Aida Makoto.

This question is driving most authors nuts: on one hand, book fairs seem like the heart of publishing industry, where experts from all fields meet, network, make deals and give amazingly interesting lectures.

If you are interested in attending the lectures at our remote location, please visit the DC Academy website on how to register with DC Academy and then sign up for the day.

For more information on OFA exams, please visit OFA at https://www.ofa.org/index.html Lastly, if you are interested in either a OFA clinic and / or a lecture to your breed club, please contact us for availability.

Dr. Jaffe has lectured and assisted in wet laboratories on both state and national levels in a variety of emergency and critical care topics of interest to veterinarians and technicians.

Interesting lectures inside the ship as well as out on the sun deck make this an exciting and educational journey.

Interesting lectures, presentations and activities inside the ship as well as out on the sun deck make this an exciting and educational journey.

For those of you aspiring game developers out there, or just plain folk interested in knowing a thing or two about the inner workings of how a game is developed, both Naughty Dog and Valve have links on their respective websites to some of their presentation materials for lectures they recently presented at GDC this past February.

[Another of the complex lectures from last week's GameFest in Seattle that's well worth recapping on GSW - thanks to Christian Nutt (notes) and Michael Zenke (write - up) for encapsulating some really interesting concepts on just how art direction and gameplay imperatives blend.]

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria 2010 Eternal Tour festival: «From Abstraction to Activism,» Jerusalem and Ramallah, Palestine 2009 «Nostalgia Isn't What It Used To Be,» co-programmed by Brooke O'Harra and Sharon Hayes), Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY Artists on Artists Lecture Series: «Sharon Hayes on Merce Cunningham,» Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY, March 2, 2009 2008 «Nine Scripts from a Nation at War - In Conversation,» Conference with the 9 Scripts from a Nation at War artists Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander and David Thorne, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England, June 9, 2008 «Spheres of Interest,» San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, May 2, 2008 «Looking Back Now.