What Counts Brown Bag Series

2003-2004 Weekly Series of Brown Bag Lunch Conversations
What Counts?
Measuring Ourselves and the World

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
--Albert Einstein

Matters of value and quantification are threaded through all our perceptions of the world and our place within it.
Please join us for a series of discussions about how measurement influences our experience and thinking.

Open to all ...
Mondays, 12-1,
Multicultural Center (229 Roberts Road)
Contact Anne Dalke or Ted Wong
for additional information.
The Fall Series has concluded.
A new series on Information will be held at noon on Thursdays during the Spring Semester.
On Line Forum for continuing discussion
Archive of 2002-2003 Schedule and Discussion Links

Sharon Burgmayer, "Interface"
For an exhibit of Sharon's paintings see Transformation

Schedule and Discussion Links

Sept. 8 Ted Wong (Biology) Why Quantify; or, Why the World Is Not Enough

Sept. 15 Anne Dalke (English, Gender Studies) "What is the Better Story"? A Humanist Reflects on the Relation Between Numbers and Narratives

Sept. 22 Arlo Weil (Geology) What We're Counting: Why and How?

Sept. 29 Elliott Shore (Information Services) Conforming to the Count: How We Decide to Do the Things We Do

Oct. 6 Paula Viterbo (History of Science) Counting the Days: Natural Family Planning

Oct. 13 FALL BREAK

Oct. 20 Jody Cohen (Education), Nell Anderson (Praxis) and Gloria Lopez (Posse Foundation) Moving Beyond the Quantitative Definition of Merit: Learning from and with the Posse

Oct. 27 Elena Bernal (Institutional Research) College Rankings: What Factors Drive Them

Nov. 3 Radcliffe Edmonds (Classics) The Theology of Arithmetic

Nov. 10 Liz McCormack (Physics) Concepts of Measurement in Physics

Nov. 17 David Ross (Economics) Bucks, Values and Happiness

Nov. 24 Michelle Mancini (Dean's Office and College Seminar Program) The Face Behind/Above/Within the Numbers: Sentiment vs. Statistics, Then and Now

Dec. 1 Jan Trembley (Alumnae Bulletin) Measuring "Success" and the Alumnae Bulletin

Dec. 8 Paul Grobstein (Biology) Quantity, Quality and Value: A View from the Brain

2003-2004 Weekly Series of Brown Bag Lunch Conversations What Counts? Measuring Ourselves and the World

Schedule and Discussion Links

2003-2004 Weekly Series of Brown Bag Lunch Conversations
What Counts?
Measuring Ourselves and the World