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Sandy Baum

Listen: Economist Sandy Baum on Higher Education, Inequality, and Opportunity

March 30th, 2015

Baum discusses the options available to institutions for promoting opportunity, the role of federal education policy, and the potential of higher education to mitigate the growing economic inequality plaguing the U.S.
Jesse Marshall

Listen: Jesse Marshall '11 on "Meet Me on the Margins: Redefining Progress and Prosperity in America's Rust Belt"

March 6th, 2015

Marshall, a founding member of a nonprofit in Troy, N.Y., describes the conditions that make Troy and communities like it ripe for cooperative renaissance.

Gregory Petsko

Listen: Gregory Petsko on "Adventures of a Public Scientist"

March 5th, 2015

Petsko says has learned a lot about the way the world works, how science is used and misused, and what scientists need to do to become effective agents of change.

Listen: Susan Stanford Friedman '65 on "Cosmopolitanism in Transnational Literary Studies"

February 23rd, 2015

Friedman discusses religion, secularism, and migration in a keynote address at an international conference for transnational literature and translation.
Ineke Sluiter

Ineke Sluiter: Tough Words, Soft Hearts

February 6th, 2015

In the annual Martin Oswald Lecture, Sluiter uses theories of conflict resolution to examine ancient and modern debates on the right course of action and how they invoke arguments and rhetorical strategies derived from morality and self-interest.
Thomas Laqueur

Listen: Historian Thomas Laqueur '67 Asks, "Why Do We Care For The Dead?"

December 10th, 2014

"Caring for [the dead] is the sign of our emergence from the order of nature into culture," says Laqueur '67 in this year's Paul H. Beik Lecture.
Teresa Ghilarducci

Listen: Economist Teresa Ghilarducci Asks "Do the Old Eat the Young?"

December 3rd, 2014

Economist Teresa Ghilarducci discusses the false tradeoff between funding for the young and the old during this year's annual Frank Pierson Lecture.
Ivan Coyote

Listen: Sager Series Presents Talk by Author Ivan Coyote

November 20th, 2014

An award-winning author of eight collections of short stories and a renowned performer, Coyote's first love is live storytelling.
David Rudovsky

Listen: Criminal Defense Attorney David Rudovsky on Policing and Racial Justice

September 30th, 2014

Rudovsky, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, recently presented the 2014 Constitution Day Lecture.
Nina Johnson

Listen: Cooper Series Begins with Exploration of Brown v. Board of Education Legacy

September 23rd, 2014

“That ruling had many effects and many legacies," says sociologist Nina Johnson, "but we find ourselves 60 years later with segregated schools, so the question is ‘where are we, what do we need to do from here?’”

Daisy Fried '89

A Reading by Daisy Fried '89

June 6th, 2014

Award-winning poet Daisy Fried '89 is the author of three volumes of poetry, most recently <i>Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice</i> (2013).
Ann Mosely Lesch '66

Ann Mosely Lesch '66: Troubled Political Transitions

May 12th, 2014

Political scientist Ann Mosely Lesch '66, an emeritus professor at the American University of Cairo, presents the 2014 Islamic Studies Lecture.

David Kennedy '80

Criminologist David Kennedy '80: What if Criminal Justice Had a Hippocratic Oath?

May 8th, 2014

In this recent campus talk, criminiologist David Kennedy '80 explores an applied ethics of crime control.

anna torres '07

Anna Torres '07: The Circular Landscapes of Dvoyre Fogel

May 2nd, 2014

Torres, a doctoral candidate in Jewish Studies at UC Berkeley, presents selections from her original translations of Dvoyre Fogel's work, written in Yiddish during the 1930s in Poland.

Listen: Behavioral Economics: What's It All About?

May 2nd, 2014

Timothy Taylor, managing editor for the Journal of Economic Perspectives, discusses behavioral economics for the 2014 Bernie Saffran Memorial Lecture.

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