by John McFadden, Susan McFadden | Apr 26, 2012 | Videos
Featured speakers at this talk, the first of the 2012 Wisconsin Academy Age On Series in Menasha, are Susan H. and John T. McFadden. Susan McFadden (PhD) is a psychology professor at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. Her current research addresses late-life...
by Richard Davidson | Apr 3, 2012 | Videos
Richard Davidson appears in his first public talk in Madison connected with his new book, The Emotional Life of Your Brain, co-authored with Sharon Begley. The brain-research pioneer and Wisconsin Academy Fellow offers a new model for our emotions: their origins,...
by Jonah Lehrer | Mar 27, 2012 | Videos
Jonah Lehrer, contributing editor at Wired magazine and the author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist, shares a sparkling and revelatory introduction to the new science of creativity. Shattering the myth of muses, higher powers, even creative “types,”...
by BA Harrington, Chele Isaac | Jan 13, 2012 | Videos
Chele Isaac and BA Harrington’s collaborative, multimedia installation work at the James Watrous Gallery explores themes of dislocation, migration, and the way nostalgia distorts and narrows the idea of “American-ness.” For their latest project, they...
by John Hall, Donald Downs | Sep 11, 2011 | Videos
In Part I of the Wisconsin Academy’s “Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World” Academy Evenings event on September 11, 2011, John W. Hall (UW-Madison Ambrose-Hesseltine Professor in U.S. Military History) and Donald Downs (the Alexander Meiklejohn...
