We take a look around us and notice all the elements that surround us as seemingly individual parts. However, those unrelated elements have the potential to come together in unexpected ways. For instance, big ideas can come from a combination of smaller ideas. Tracing through the course of our lives, how can we connect our experiences to achieve a greater understanding? How can we draw a bigger picture by Connecting the Dots?
According to reports from the World Health Organization, over half of the global population lacks access to basic health care. In both our local and global communities, there is great disparity in health outcomes based on factors like race, gender, and socioeconomic status. The field of global health seeks to address these disparities and create a future where everyone has access to quality, affordable healthcare.
How to find your sense of connection through the fluidity of our digital disconnection? Exemplified by studies in digital media theory, photography, and phenomenology, Luiza’s narratives in film and photography along with her research, bring life to what has currently become unnoticed around the culture of our smartphone screens. With a creative eye for modern philosophy and visual communications, this talk will immerse you into a self-discovery about our senses and perceptions outside the digital screens of how one experiences life.
The women’s suffragist Susan B. Anthony once said that the bicycle had done “more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” More than a century after Anthony said this, Nishith Prakash studies the powerful role of bicycles in transforming girls’ lives by improving their education and empowerment in Zambia and India.