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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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+Transcript of "On the Pursuit of Happiness: An Evening with Robert Thurman and Pico Iyer" (24 April 2008)
+Stanford on iTunes Audio File for "On the Pursuit of Happiness: An Evening with Robert Thurman and Pico Iyer" (24 April 2008)
+Amartya Sen's Martin Luther King Lecture Manuscript (April 5, 2008), "Global Poverty and Human Rights"
+Transcript Posted for "Against Ignorance," our Conversation with Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss (9 March 2008)
+Transcript and Audio on iTunes for "The Beatles on the Brain," our Conversation with Daniel Levitan, Nick Bromell, and Jonathan Berger (21 February 2008)
+Transcript of IRAQ: REFRAME interview with Dahr Jamail (4 February 2008)
+Audio (RealAudio & iTunes), Video, and Transcript Posted for "An Evening with Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass" (8 October 2007)
+"Clean, Secure, and Efficient Energy: Can We Have it All?" our Conversation with Amy Goodman (moderator), Sally Benson, Paul Ehrlich, Fred Krupp, George Shultz, and J.B. Straubel (5 September 2007)
+Wade Davis' "We Need a Global Declaration of Interdependence"
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LIFE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY THROUGH TIME
With Frans Lanting and Christine Eckstrom
WITH RICHARD STOLLEY (moderator)
KRESGE AUDITORIUM
Co-Presented with Stanford Publishing Courses
Monday, July 14, 2008
8:00 - 9:30pm
The Aurora Forum joins with Stanford Publishing Courses to present photographer Frans Lanting and his LIFE Project, a lyrical interpretation of the story of life on Earth that has been produced as a multimedia show for symphony orchestra with music by Philip Glass. For this evening’s photographic presentation, Lanting will be joined by his wife and partner, Christine Eckstrom, an editor, videographer, and former staff writer at National Geographic. For two decades, Frans and Chris have collaborated on fieldwork and publishing projects that have increased awareness of endangered ecological treasures in far corners of the earth.
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A Conversation with Naomi Klein:
Disaster Capitalism and the Rise of Democratic Reconstruction
With Terry Karl (interviewer)
Kresge Auditorium
Thursday, October 16, 2008
7:30 - 9:00pm
In her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, journalist Naomi Klein exposes the strategies of powerful people who cash in on chaos and exploit catastrophe to remake our world in their image. But this is not the whole story: popular renewal and repair movements are gaining the strength not only to take state power but to change the power structures of the state. Join us for a conversation that presents a new paradigm for understanding global politics and celebrates those who continue to work for justice against great odds.
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On the Pursuit of Happiness:
An Evening with Robert Thurman and Pico Iyer
PICO IYER, ROBERT THURMAN and MARK GONNERMAN (moderator) April 24, 2008
Novelist and travel writer Pico Iyer joins Robert Thurman, Columbia University professor and founder of Tibet House in New York City, for a conversation on the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, education, life on the road, and things that contribute to...
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Global Solidarity, Human Rights, and the End of Poverty
AMARTYA SEN (KEYNOTE), CLAYBORNE CARSON, DAVID GRUSKY, ANANYA ROY, THOMAS NAZARIO, DEBORAH L. JOHNSON, BRITTANY MILES and KALVIN WANG and STEFANIE SHIH April 5, 2008
To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968), the Aurora Forum joins with Stanford’s King Institute to host a day-long conference on the struggle for economic...
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IRAQ: REFRAME (5): Filmmaking in Iraq
Fifth of Five-Part Series
with Montalvo Arts Center
KASIM ABID, MAYSOON PACHACHI, FADY HADID and KRISTINE SAMUELSON (moderator) March 17, 2008
We join three Iraqi artists to discuss the challenges of filmmaking in present-day Iraq. Maysoon Pachachi and Kasim Abid, who set up the Independent Film & Television College in Baghdad in 2004,...
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Against Ignorance: Science Education in the 21st Century
A Conversation with Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss
RICHARD DAWKINS, LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS and MARK A. KAY (MODERATOR) March 9, 2008
The rise of religiously motivated threats to scientific practice and instruction in American schools has motivated biologist Richard Dawkins and physicist Lawrence Krauss to engage in a public dialogue on strategies for science education in the...
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The Beatles on the Brain
DANIEL LEVITIN, NICK BROMELL and JONATHAN BERGER February 21, 2008
Forty years have passed since the Beatles released The White Album, introducing "Blackbird," "Rocky Raccoon," "Sexy Sadie," "Helter Skelter" and "Ob-La-Di,...
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