Join renowned LSU faculty members as they discuss navigating the uncertainties of their fields in music, psychology, chemistry, physics, mass communication, literature, medicine, geography and political science.

Uncertainty Across the Arts and Sciences: A Conversation

Tuesday, February 23, 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Session Chair: Suzanne Marchand, LSU Systems Boyd Professor (History)

Willis Delony, LSU Boyd Professor of Piano and Jazz Studies (Music) "Making Music and the Art of Painting Yourself Out of a Corner"

Emily Elliott, Professor and Chair (Psychology) "Open Science Methods and Practices: A Psychologist's Journey"

John Pojman, Professor and Chair (Chemistry) "Epistemological Implications of Chaos Theory"

Tuesday, March 9, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Session Chair: Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Professor and Chair (History)

Gabriela González, LSU Systems Boyd Professor (Physics and Astronomy) "How Certain Are We of Physics Discoveries?"

Len Apcar, Wendell Gray Switzer Jr. Endowed Chair in Media Literacy (Mass Communication), and longtime reporter and editor, "Thinking and Verifying: Taking in the News in an Age of Distrust"

Michelle Zerba, Maggie B. Martin Professor (English and Comparative Literature) "On Uncertainty and the Search for Knowledge: The Value of Ancient Skepticism Today"

Wednesday, March 24, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

Session Chair: Inessa Bazayev, Paul G. Manship Associate Professor (Music)

Steve Nelson, Dean, School of Medicine, LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans, "Diagnostic Error in Health Care"

Barry Keim, Professor and Chair (Geography and Anthropology), and LA State Climatologist, "Our Uncertain Future in Weather and Climate"

James Stoner, Hermann Moyse, Jr. Professor (Political Science) and Director (Eric Voegelin Institute) " Moral Certainty"

Wednesday, April 14, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Session Chair: Robert Mann, Manship Chair in Journalism, Manship School of Mass Communication

Nancy Rabalais, Shell Endowed Chair in Oceanography and Wetland Studies, (Oceanography), "Should Uncertainty Prevent Wise Resource Management"

Craig Colten, Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography (Geography), "Cultural Adaptation in a Landscape of Uncertainty"

Michael Desmond, Professor, Department of Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Trustee, (Architecture), "Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste"

Register online and an email with Zoom links and password will be sent before discussions begin.