Scholarly Colloquia and Events

  • 3/2 Manuel Lima on "The Tree Diagram"

    UCHI and UConn Global are proud to co-sponsor a virtual talk by Manuel Lima on "The Tree Diagram: Mapping Branches of Knowledge," which is part of the Abrahamic Story of the Tree project.

    March 2, 2023 at 12:30pm. Registration is required. 

    Manuel Lima is the founder of VisualComplexity.com, Senior UX Manager at Google, and a regular teacher of data visualization at Parsons School of Design.

    Manuel is a leading voice on information visualization and has spoken at 80+ conferences, universities and festivals across four continents, including TED, Lift, OFFF, Eyeo, Visualized, Ars Electronica, Harvard, MIT, Yale, Royal College of Art, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, ENSAD Paris, University of Amsterdam, MediaLab Prado Madrid. His talks have been watched by 3M+ people around the world and he has been featured in various magazines and newspapers, such as Wired, New York Times, Science, Nature, BusinessWeek, Creative Review, Fast Company, Forbes, Grafik magazine, SEED, Étapes, and El País.

    He is the author of three books translated into several languages. His latest, The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge (2017), covers 1,000 years of humanity's long-lasting obsession with all things circular.

    For more information, contact: UConn Global at global@uconn.edu