College of Arts & Humanities Calendar
University of Maryland, College Park
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Qualitative Research Interest Group presents
Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Celeste Watkins-Hayes is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology & African American Studies at Northwestern University. In addition to her faculty appointment, Watkins-Hayes is a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health. Her areas of research specialization are urban poverty; social policy; HIV/AIDS; formal organizations (non-profit and government); and race, class, and gender. She has published articles in Social Problems, the Harvard Journal of African-American Public Policy, and The State of Black America, 2001 and has been profiled in Essence and USA Today Weekend magazines. With Mario Small, Watkins-Hayes is the organizer of the website Urban Orgs: New Thinking on Organizations, Inequality, and Urban Conditions. Watkins-Hayes received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in June 2003. She also holds an M.A. in Sociology from Harvard and a B.A. from Spelman College, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1996.
Lecture by Prof. Ana Castaño (In Spanish)
Students will learn techniques for analyzing and manipulating data in Excel 2007. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Customize toolbars and create styles and templates.
- Create decision-making functions.
- Analyze worksheet data by creating pivot tables.
- Compare and contrast workbook files and file links.
- Outline and consolidate worksheets; analyze worksheet data by using the Scenario Manager.
- Display and protect worksheet data by locking cells.
- Record and modify macros by using the Visual Basic Editor.
- Create and work with interactive Web documents.
Prerequisites: Intermediate competency with the Excel tool (e.g., working with charts and chart sheets, sorting, filtering and querying data).
$100
Camara Holloway, assistant professor, University of Delaware, will speak on "Homo africanus harlemi: The Image of the New Negro."
The lunchbag lectures are sponsored by the Archives of American Art, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The talks are held at noon in the Archives’ Executive Board room on the second floor of the Victor Building at 750 Ninth Street NW. Please bring your own lunch and beverage. Please contact Liza Kirwin at kirwinl@si.edu<mailto:kirwinl@si.edu> if you need special accommodations.
We invite you to send ideas for future topics and speakers to Brandon Fortune, National Portrait Gallery; Liza Kirwin, Archives of American Art; or Cynthia Mills, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Individuals from outside the Smithsonian who would like to receive e-mail announcements of the lunchbag talks may send a message to Amelia Goerlitz (goerlitza@si.edu<mailto:goerlitza@si.edu>) requesting to be added to our list.
This class will survey visual software geared towards the creation of new forms or narrative. In the age of YouTube it has become possible to tell a story with a very small budget, but this does not mean that the final product necessarily lacks quality. In this class students will learn how to tell a story from beginning to end using visual-editor programs and other visual software. Students will obtain their audiovisual materials not only form camcorders but from a wide range of sources, such as still images from cameras, web cams, or scanned objects, thus learning different ways of creating moving images. The production of a film from scratch will demand an effort to come up with creative solutions in order to articulate the story, trying to make the best of available resources. Students will receive instruction on the fundamentals of film narrative so that they become able to communicate a story and take their first steps into video creation.