Human Capacity

Lecture: The Barry Murals (University of Maryland)

Posted On: Thursday, July 1st, 2010

James Barry’s Murals at the RSA’s House as a Sacred Initiation
March 10, 2011, at 6 P.M.
University of Maryland, College Park
4th floor of the Art/Sociology Building
Speaker: Bill Pressly, FRSA, professor of art history at the University of Maryland, and author of “The Life and Art of James Barry” (Yale University Press, 1981) and “James Barry: The [...]

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Humanity’s Greatest Asset?

Posted On: Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Humanity’s capacity to generate new ideas and knowledge is its greatest asset………Human rights call on us to ensure that everyone can create, access, use and share information and knowledge, enabling individuals, communities and societies to achieve their full potential”, The Adelphi Charter (2005) 
How does legislation cope with the constant tension around shifting technological and social [...]

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Music and disability project

Posted On: Thursday, January 21st, 2010

I am starting a project which potentially offers therapeutic benefits to children and adults with physical challenges by using underwater speakers to play music.  The sounds when you are in the water, with your ears under the waterline, go into your skeletal system and resonate within your solar plexus. From past experience I believe the [...]

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