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 Pathways to Knowledge: A Lecture Series for Undergraduates and Graduate Students
Spring 2006
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
7:00-8:00 P.M.
Gifford Auditorium
The Physiology of Human Space Flight
Brian Clark, Ph.D
Department of Exercise Science/
Science Teaching
Syracuse University
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A manned space flight mission to Mars would take approximately three years. There are many problems that must be solved to successfully achieve this goal. One of these problems is the serious consequences that microgravity imposes on the physiological capacity of Astronauts. Research over the past couple of decades has begun to identify these problems.
This presentation will provide an overview of the body’s response to Zero-Gravity, and present research being conducted at Syracuse University on the adaptations of the human neuromuscular system following simulated spaceflight.
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
7:00-8:00 P.M.
Gifford Auditorium
Flexible Hiring, Immigration, and Indian IT Workers’ Experiences of
Contract Work in the U.S
Payal Banerjee
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Sociology
Syracuse University
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Since the 1990s, tens of thousands of Indian information technology (IT) professionals have been incorporated into the U.S. The interaction between the visa status of Indian IT workers and flexible hiring practices in the U.S. has disproportionately positioned this skilled workforce as contract workers and heightened their subordination to capitalism.
This presentation underscores the importance of integrating immigration and visa policies in order to better understand contract work in the U.S. and its connotations.
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006
7:00-8:00 P.M.
Gifford Auditorium
Who’s Streets? Our Streets! Youth (Sub) Culture, Education, and
Activism in post 9/11 U.S.
Tina Limpert
Ph.D. Candidate
Cultural Foundations of Education
Syracuse University
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This multi-sited qualitative dissertation research project examines the complications and contradictions student activists face when they confront issues regarding war, militarization, and environmental racism on and around their college campuses in the post-9/11 United States.
My research explores how student activism becomes a space where social inequities and relations of power are interrogated and reinforced. I also address how discourses of youth subculture and activism in the post 9/11 U.S. work to frame youth, and I imagine what we can learn about radical peer pedagogy and white privilege from student activists’ self-education and struggles.
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