Bart Ehrman, professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Biblical scholars have long recognized the discrepancies between the four New Testament Gospels and the difficulties that result in determining who Jesus really was. Can these four Gospe

Ira Glick ’57. professor emeritus, Stanford University Medical Center Rapid advances in understanding how the brain works have led to dramatic and exciting changes in clinical practice and research in psychology, psychiatry and medicine. Glick will pre

Scott Sumner, professor, Bentley University By focusing on nominal GDP as an indicator of both economic conditions and a target of policy, the real problem with the financial crisis of 2008 was that policymakers misdiagnosed what was occurring. Market m

Catherine O’Reilly, Illinois State University Current climate change significantly affects water quality and fish production in freshwater ecosystems with potentially dire consequences for developing countries. This talk explores global patterns in re

Participants: Kim Colby, senior counsel, Christian Legal Society; Heather Weaver ’99, senior staff attorney, American Civil Liberties Union; and David O’Connell, moderator, professor, Dickinson College. Colby and Weaver will debate the issues of two

A panel of experts will discuss the complex array of environmental and economic-development issues surrounding the evolution of the Carlisle area as a major logistics center with the associated construction of mega-warehouses and the concentration of truc

Many public commentators are of the opinion that the election of President Obama in 2008 ushered in a new era of extreme partisanship. Senator David Pryor, former U.S. Senator from Arkansas, will discuss and evaluate the state of politics in our nation’

New forms of politics and new types of technologies have unleashed new kinds of conflicts in disparate parts of today’s world. Andrew Hyde '81, partnership manager, Department of State’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO), and a Me

James Hansen, former director, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is the 2013 recipient of the Joseph Priestley Award. Hansen offered a scientist’s view of the climate crisis: why the public does not see it, why governments fail to address

Retired U.S.Navy Rear Admiral Michael McDevitt will discuss the increasingly contentious dispute between China and Japan concerning sovereignty over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea and the implications this dispute has for U.S. foreign po