{"id":17974,"date":"2005-10-12T15:54:50","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T20:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=17974"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:29:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:29:03","slug":"lectures-at-bates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2005\/10\/12\/lectures-at-bates\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectures at Bates spotlight compelling issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Lectures at Bates this week shed light on three diverse, yet equally momentous, realms of contemporary concern.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph T. Kelley, a marine geologist and sedimentologist who focuses on shoreline issues, gives a talk titled <em>The Destruction and Proposed Reconstruction of the Mississippi River Delta<\/em> at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, in Room 204 of Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lisette de Pillis, an expert in the use of mathematical models to solve difficult problems in diverse fields, offers two lectures that same day. A professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, she gives an informal talk titled <em>Cancer Growth and Treatment Modeling <\/em>at 4:30 p.m. At 8 p.m., she gives a lecture titled<em> How to Model Cancer Growth and New Treatment Strategies: A Perspective of Cooperation<\/em>. The location for both is the Keck Classroom (Room G52), Pettengill Hall. A reception follows the evening talk.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, Equatorial Guinean writer Juan Tom\u00e1s \u00c1vila Laurel gives a talk called <em>The Open Vein of Africa<\/em> at 4 p.m. in the Benjamin Mays Center. \u00c1vila Laurel is one of the few writers in Equatorial Guinea who has resisted government pressure to be silent or leave the country.<\/p>\n<p>All four events are open to the public at no cost. (Please click the links below for more information about each event.)<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p>Oct.12:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2005\/10\/12\/mississippi-delta\/\">UMaine geologist to discuss fate of Mississippi Delta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oct.12:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2005\/10\/12\/mathematical-modeling\/\">Mathematical modeling, cancer treatment linked in Bates lecture<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oct.12:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2005\/10\/12\/equatorial-guinea\/\">Writer from Equatorial Guinea to speak<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/images\/blank.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blank image\" width=\"20\" height=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lectures at Bates this week shed light on three diverse, yet equally momentous, realms of contemporary concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[217,224],"tags":[5657,7809],"class_list":["post-17974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-technology","category-society-culture","tag-marine-geology","tag-sedimentology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93023,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974\/revisions\/93023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}