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Cultural Studies Faculty Publications / Kültürel Çalışmalar Öğretim Üyesi Yayınları

Mark Auslander, Director of the MA program in Cultural Production at Brandeis University, talks about the program’s faculty and graduate students. He discusses some of the students’ creative projects and interests, and talks a bit about the group’s new project on YouTube, to stimulate creative conversation about art, performance, critical media literacy and cultural politics.

Find out more about HKSEC at www.sechallenge.hk HKSEC Grand Final Presentation – Inter Cultural Education

Scientific thinking is both like and unlike the forms of thinking that individuals employ in their everyday lives. For example, in both science and everyday problem solving, people make inferences about the relationships between causes and effects by detecting and evaluating patterns of covariation between potential causes and outcomes. However, it is much less common for people to deliberately apply strategies and heuristics (such as the control-of-variables strategy) to definitively and systematically rule out factors that are not causal, although one does observe this form of thinking in certain specialized contexts, for example, those that call for accurate diagnosis (e.g., car repair, medicine). Moreover, causal relationships that go beyond simple, one cause one effect can be very difficult for people to detect (Perkins and Grotzer, 2000). Similarly, people do not simply hold a catalog of unrelated beliefs; instead, they use their knowledge to make inferences that are internally consistent and that support explanations and predictions about novel cases (Gopnik and Meltzoff, 1997).  Read more...

2008 წლის 15-22 დეკემბერს კულტურის მეცნიერებათა ინსტიტუტს (თსუ) სტუმრობდა უნგრეთის მეცნიერებათა აკადემიის სოციოლოგიის ინსტიტუტის დირექტორი, ევროპისა და აშშ მრავალი უნივერსიტეტის პროფესორი პალ ტამაში. პროფესორმა ტამაშმა წაიკითხა ლექციები პოსტსოციალისტურ სივრცეში ტრანზიციის პრობლემებზე, იდენტობის, ტრანზიციის პერიოდში თაობათა ურთიერთობის პრობლემებსა და სხვა საკითხებზე. On December 15-22, 2008 the director of Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, professor Pal Tamas visited the Institute of Cultural Studies. The problems of transition in post Socialist space, identity issues, and inter-generational relations in the era of transition were covered during the lectures. www.culturedialogue.com icstbilisi@gmail.com