Sentences with phrase «raise urgent questions»

David Castillo Gallery will present works that raise urgent questions about representations of race, sexuality and gender in today's society, including a live performance by Kalup Linzy (b. 1977), as well as photographs by Lyle Ashton Harris (b. 1965) and Xaviera Simmons (b. 1974).

Ai's artworks in @Large raise urgent questions about the social implications of incarceration and the definitions of liberty, justice, individual rights, and personal responsibility as interpreted through the lens of the artist's personal experiences.

The pair were in constant contact with Mr McBride, raising urgent questions over what they knew of his brutal tactics.»

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?

Taking the guise of a video game, «Factory of the Sun» is loosely based on a fictional light and information dependant hegemony that raises urgent questions about the proliferation of reality - based news programming, the tyranny of public opinion, the pitfalls of corporate sponsorship, and the increasing unavoidability of mass surveillance.

The 2017 Biennial raises urgent questions around race, violence, the ethics of representation, and the limits of empathy.

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This raises the most profound and urgent questions about the future.

If the pressure toward globalization of our thinking in practical matters continues to increase, as it almost inevitably will, it can only intensify the spiritual questions that our common fate on this earth raises in new and urgent ways.

It is urgent because it foregrounds the question of whether we would have been better off with a women's movement that respected the family, the complementarity of men and women, and the satisfactions of having and raising children — or, alternatively, with a form of feminism that derides men as oppressors and champions alternate sexualities.

Among the changes is a rehabilitation of the «urgent question», a piece of procedure which allows MPs to raise topical issues more quickly.

Andrea Leadsom, the leader of the House of Commons, pledged that incidents of sexual harassment would not go unpunished, as she responded to an urgent question raised by the Labour MP Harriet Harman about allegations that have emerged in recent days.

Genetically engineered babies raise a host of disturbing, science fiction - worthy ethical questions, but we have a more mundane and much more urgent issue to consider: safety.

And Neil Carmichael, chairman of Parliament's education select committee, who raised the issue in an urgent Commons question, asked why more delay was necessary.

These differing approaches kept coming to mind as I read Ron Childress» And West is West, a novel that addresses some serious, even urgent, social questions but which seems at times more interested in scoring quick points for being socially conscious than really exploring the issues it raises in a thoughtful and thorough way.

At the very least, your research seems to raise serious questions in urgent need of answers.

This raises the interesting question of the life of Hydro electric dams of which the Kariba dam is possibly the most urgent.

The most urgent question today's column raises is not about Will, but about how media organizations decide how to present science to the public.

For instance, one might expect comments: 1) identifying ethical problems in legal scholarship that are given too little attention; 2) identifying the most important or urgent ethical problems in legal scholarship, even if they are already given attention; 3) asking questions about the definition of «scholarship» or «legal scholarship,» what counts as legal scholarship, and what kinds of norms, if any, should apply to writing by law professors as law professors but outside scholarly forums, such as tweets, blog posts, «law professors» letters,» op - eds, and so on; 4) proposing specific ethical norms for legal scholarship, especially those that might, as it were, be part of a Restatement or code of the ethics of legal scholarship; and 5) raising general questions, positive or critical, about what the conference should try to achieve or whether it is possible to achieve anything at all.

Upon careful consideration, therefore, we have decided that we will be better able to prioritize our workload and be better able to be responsive to the most urgent and substantial questions raised to the Department, if we do not provide for a formal advisory opinion process on preemption as proposed.