#OnlineTalk | America's Jewish Questions at 250 Years - Kate Rosenblatt on Rethinking American Jewish Liberalism: Jewish Communists and "Jewish Life," 1946-56 | Hosted at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at Penn University | Details: https://katz.sas.upenn.edu/events/rethinking-american-jewish-liberalism-jewish-communists-and-jewish-life-1946-56

March 17, 2026 | 05:00 PM CET | On Zoom

Are you an undergraduate or early stage graduate student and interested in #ClimateChange and #Sustainability?

Register now for free for our #online #Philosophy, #Politics and #Economics (#PPE) #WinterSchool 2026 on March 5-6, 2026 - with Leah Henderson, Marijke Leliveld, Eugenia Rosca and Andreas Schmidt

#course #onlineTalk #PoliticalPhilosophy #Groningen #climate #climatecrisis

A message from Lidia Oskinova, President of the IAU commission G2 Massive Stars:

"Everybody is welcome to join an on-line seminar on December 1st (Monday!) at 16:00 CET

Title: What Stars Are Made Of: Celebrating One Hundred Years of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's Revolutionary PhD Thesis

Speaker: Floor Broekgaarden (University of California San Diego)

https://rediris.zoom.us/j/6313376939?pwd=akRrd2dmb3dnbDN0MmRCallTTHlLQT09&omn=95383862762

A century ago, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's PhD thesis, Stellar Atmospheres, transformed our understanding of the Universe. Famously described by Otto Struve as "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy", Payne-Gaposchkin's work revealed that stars are composed primarily of hydrogen and helium - an insight that overturned the prevailing belief that stars shared Earth's composition.

We invite you to celebrate the centennial of this landmark achievement and to reflect on the courage, creativity, and intellectual clarity that defined Cecilia's science. [...]"

https://massivestars.org/seminars/#20251201

#IAU #OnlineTalk

For those interested in such things, on the 25th September 2025 as part of the hashtag#LeedsDigi25 festival, I'll be giving an online talk "Cars* (* or how I learnt to stop worrying, and love public transport)"

This is an online talk that looks at trying to get from A to B using the train for at least part of the trip.

Free tickets are available through EventBrite on the link below.

https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/events/cars-or-how-i-learnt-to-stop-worrying-and-love-public-transport/

#LeedsDigi25 #LDF25 #PublicTransport #Rail #OnlineTalk #Data #DataVisualisation

#onlinetalk

Digital treatment of African cultural heritage: Shifting landmarks and implications for copyright exceptions for archives
Dr Chijioke Okorie (University of Pretoria)
Monday March 24 at 15:00–16:00 GMT.

Online only.

Free but booking required:
https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/digital-treatment-african-cultural-heritage-shifting-landmarks-implications-copyright-exceptions

#meettheexperts #mte #onlinetalk
Don't forget to tune in - Meet our expert Dr. Dagmar Kern, who focuses on how information-seeking behavior is defined, why it is crucial to understand it and what methods exist to explore it.

Register now: https://www.gesis.org/en/services/sharing-knowledge/meet-the-experts

An article and video presentation on the evolution of the Universe by astrophysicist Sabine Schindler

53-min talk: https://youtu.be/KQg3il6ekLo

Article: "From the Present into the Past and Future – the Evolution of the Universe", SPATIUM Magazine #51, published by the International Space Science Institute https://www.issibern.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Spatium51.pdf

#Universe #Cosmology #OnlineTalk