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Vcologies 2026

Friday, September 25 to Saturday, September 26, 2026 (all day)
English-Philosophy Building

Co-sponsored by the Obermann Center.

Vcologies (Victorian Ecologies Today) is an interdisciplinary, international collective of scholars committed to the environmental humanities, the energy humanities, and other ecology-focused approaches.

Vcologies 2026 

Friday, Sept. 25: Gerber Lounge (304 EPB)

9-10:30 a.m.: Session One: Energy 

Siobhan Carroll, “Equiano and the Fishes: Romantic Energy Systems and Slavery at Sea” 

Devin Griffiths, “; Or, the Whale” 

Michael Tondre, “Aesthetic Disfiguration: A Short...

CS Colloquium - "Approximation Algorithms: Some ancient, some new - the good, the bad and the ugly" promotional image

CS Colloquium - "Approximation Algorithms: Some ancient, some new - the good, the bad and the ugly"

Friday, September 25, 2026 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Schaeffer Hall
Northwestern University's Peter and Adrienne Barris Chair of Computer Science will speak on the use of greedy algorithms for a basic graph problem called connected dominating set, and the development of LP based algorithms for a basic scheduling problem in the context of data center scheduling.
Biology Seminar: "Influenza: A virus at the human-animal interface and zoonoses" promotional image

Biology Seminar: "Influenza: A virus at the human-animal interface and zoonoses"

Friday, September 25, 2026 3:30pm
Biology Building East
The Department of Biology's seminar speaker on Friday, September 25, at 3:30pm, is Tavis Anderson, PhD, a Research Biologist with the National Animal Disease Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)-Agricultural Research Service (ARS), in Ames, Iowa. The seminar will be held in Room 101, Biology Building East (BBE).

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