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The Director's Notes
Posted on Monday, April 14, 2008
Post by Mark Gonnerman
Check out this TED Talk by Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist who had a stroke and lived to tell her story. To see this riveting 18 minute presentation on the mind, brain, and how we are connected to the world and one another, please click here.
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The Aurora Forum at Stanford University is part of a history of free public programs that goes back to the University's founding. Leland Stanford Junior University opened in October 1891, and by December of that year President David Starr Jordan—an educator who believed that "the final end of education is not learning or official position, but service to humanity"—launched a fortnightly public lecture forum intended "to share the fine specialists on this campus and their knowledge with the community."
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Mark Gonnerman, PhD
Director of the Aurora Forum
Mark Gonnerman, founding director of the Aurora Forum, earned his BA degree (Phi Beta Kappa) in history and philosophy from the Paracollege of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, the town where he grew up. In the course of his undergraduate years he traveled and studied in Egypt, India, Taiwan, and Japan, and spent the better part of his junior year reading history and poetry at Christ's College at Cambridge University, England. After three years of peace education work in Hiroshima, Japan, he returned stateside to complete an MDiv degree at Harvard Divinity School and a PhD in religious studies at Stanford, where he was a Lieberman Fellow. He was a teaching fellow in Japanese history at Harvard, and has taught courses in religious studies and literature at Stanford and Stanford Continuing Studies. You can get to know him through his notes on this website.
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