Brief

Mind and Memory lectures: The community is welcome to attend open lectures in conjunction with the course "Mind and Memory: Explorations of Creativity in the Arts and Sciences." The lectures are held Mondays from 2:55 to 4:10 p.m. in 155 Olin Hall. The course will explore the nature of creativity in science and art. "Creativity is the attribute of the mind that enables us to make new combinations from often unfamiliar information," said course instructor Joyce Morgenroth, associate professor of dance. "As is true of all learning, creativity is dependent upon memory -- a memory that is genetic and social as well as personal and experimental."

Here is a list of the open lectures remaining during the semester:

Feb. 3: Linda Rayor, entomologist, "A Romance with Spiders."

Feb. 10: Kenneth Kennedy, physical anthropologist, "Personal Identification of Skeletal Remains in Mass Disasters: Role of the Forensic Anthropologist in Accounting for the Dead."

Feb. 17: Katy Payne, naturalist, "Listening to Elephants in the Rainforest and Worrying Over Their Survival."

Feb. 24: Kenneth Hover, civil and environmental engineer, "Case Studies in the Creative Process: Developing and Managing Creativity in Teaching, Research and Management."

March 3: Joyce Morgenroth, choreographer, "Collaboration as Catalyst."

March 10: Elizabeth Streb, choreographer, "Action Heroes."

March 24: Milton Curry, architect, "Contemporary Urbanism as a Political/Creative Act."

March 31: Mara Alper, videographer, "Creating Waking Dreams: An Approach to Intuitive Image Making."

April 7: Buzz Spector, artist, "Art and the Land: of Memory and Place."

April 14: Thom Cleland, neurobiologist, "The Neurobiology of Categorization: Constructing Olfactory Sensations."

January 30, 2003