Spring 2013 Printable Schedule
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Love Your Monsters: Why Technology Will Save the World
Michael Shellenberger, president, The Breakthrough Institute
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
God vs. Gay? Common Ground in the Culture Wars
Jay Michaelson, award-winning author
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
The 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor, The Atlantic
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Farming by Design: Cleantech Urban Agriculture
Jordan Motzkin, CEO, Big Box Farms
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Sustainable Development in Mozambique
Peter Bechtel ’81, director, Andorinha Azul Ambiental, a company specializing in sustainable development
Ruth Mkhwanazi-Bechtel, program director, Vanderbilt University’s Friends in Global Health in Mozambique
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 28, 2013 * Breaking Issue *
Guns USA : A Teach-In
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Extraction
Panel Discussion
Panelists: Peter Bechtel ’81, director, Andorinha Azul Ambiental, a company specializing in sustainable development; Tim Kelsey, Penn State University; Veronica Coptis, Mountain Watershed Association; Erika Staaf, PennEnvironment; Julie Vastine, director, ALLARM (moderator)
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Japan 1959: The Socioeconomic Effects of Television
Yoshikuni Igarashi, associate professor, Vanderbilt University
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Africa’s Sources of Knowledge in Ajami Scripts
Fallou Ngom, associate professor, Boston University
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Designing Resilience in a Black Swan World
David Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Morgan Lecture
Inequality: The Enemy Between Us?
Richard Wilkinson, professor emeritus, University of Nottingham; co-founder of the Equality Trust
Weiss Center, Rubendall Recital Hall, 12:00 p.m.
Monday, April 1, 2013
More Guns, Less Crime
John Lott, economist, author, and a Fox News contributor
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Gender Stereotypes in Academic Science Contexts
Corinne Moss-Racusin, postdoctoral associate, Yale University
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
The Politics of an Entertainment Company
Peter Lev, professor, Towson University
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Same-Sex Marriage & the Supreme Court: A Plaintiff’s Story
Kris Perry, executive director, First Five Years Fund
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
U.S. Role and Image in the World: A Cuban’s Perspective
Beatriz Diaz, professor, University of Havana
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Front Line of the Climate Fight
Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar, Middlebury College; Recipient of The Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Preventive War and American Democracy
Scott Silverstone, professor, United States Military Academy, West Point
Althouse Hall, Room 106, 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
U.S.-Russia: The Second Obama Term
Angela Stent, professor, Georgetown University
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Joseph Priestley Lecture
Lupus and Snurps: Bench to Bedside and Back Again
Joan Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Monday, April 22, 2013
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Michael Mann, professor, Penn State University
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Mary Ellen Borges Memorial Lecture
Hearing Jesus’s Parables Through Jewish Ears
Amy-Jill Levine, University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt University
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Pennsylvania Gun Debate
State Representative Stephen Bloom (R)
State Senator Larry Farnese (D)
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
