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.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.
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: 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.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.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.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.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.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?’”
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: 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.
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: 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.