Reminder: Friday night Bridges Lecture

[Benoit Charbonneau]

St. Jerome's University
University of Waterloo Faculty of Arts
University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics

Bridges Lecture

Friday, February 28, 2014 @ 7:30 p.m.
Siegfried Hall   -  St. Jerome's University
FREE ADMISSION  -  OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
FREE PARKING
FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION
Mathematics and what it means to be human

Speakers: Michele Osherow, University of Maryland Baltimore County (English)
Manil Suri, University of Maryland Baltimore County (Math)

Moderator:
Geoff McBoyle, Vice-President Academic & Provost, U Waterloo

http://sju.ca/news-events/public-events/bridges-lecture-series/2013-2014-bridges-2

What if universities required their teachers to demonstrate the same breadth demanded of students? Imagine two professors from departments as different as Mathematics and English pairing up to teach a joint course. Infused with theatrical energy, Suri and Osherow share their experiences doing precisely this co-teaching a seminar that combined their seemingly incompatible disciplines. In a multimedia presentation incorporating a range of voices and perspectives, these unlikely collaborators struggle with dueling loyalties, suspicious colleagues, nonplussed students and questioning outsiders. The two will explore topics braved in and beyond their classroom as they moved outside their comfort zones to negotiate common ground between mathematics and the humanities.


Speakers:
Michele Osherow is Associate Professor of English and Director of Judaic Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Her research attends to literature of the English Renaissance and the early modern Bible; she published Biblical Women's Voices in Early Modern England (2009), and numerous articles on Shakespeare and similar topics. Osherow has extensive experience in professional theatre and is Resident Dramaturg for the Folger Theatre in Washington D.C. She has also served several times as Executive Director of the Shakespeare Association of America.

Manil Suri is a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. His field of research is numerical analysis. He has participated in various mathematics outreach efforts, including a collaboration with Michele Osherow on the DC Folger Theatres production of  Arcadia. He is the author of the three novels, The Death of Vishnu (2001), The Age of Shiva(2008) and The City of Devi (2013).


This event is part of the Bridges lecture series sponsored by St. Jerome's University, the uWaterloo Faculty of Mathematics, and the uWaterloo Faculty of Arts. Each of the series' public lectures is delivered jointly by a mathematician and a non-mathematician.  More informations about the series can be found at sju.ca/bridges<http://sju.ca/bridges>

Coming up next:
March 17th, 2014: Damn Lies, Truths, Statistics and History with Douglas Peers (History) and Don McLeish (Statistics)
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