Will India and China cooperate or compete? Officials and experts have asked this question for over a century, and more often than not were wrong in their predictions. This lecture by Mark Frazier, professor, New School for Social Research, explores why

James Oakes, professor, City University of New York, The Graduate Center, lectured about the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation is so shrouded in mythology that even today, 150 years later, we are unable to answer the simplest but m

Job satisfaction around the globe is at a record low, which both reduces companies’ profits and negatively impacts the quality of human life. Based on an analysis of surveys of 10 million workers in 150 countries, Kevin Kruse,entrepreneur and bestsellin

Janice Perlman, founder and president, The Mega-Cities Project: Innovations for Urban Life, author of the recent book FAVELA, will share her experience, findings, and photographs from field research in Brazil, starting as a student and continuing until th

Jenny Reardon, director of the Science & Justice Research Center, UC, Santa , Cruz, gives this insightful lecture. The opening decade of this millennium witnessed genome scientists, policy makers, critical race theorists and world leaders proclaiming

Professor Douglas Edlin, political science, will moderate a panel discussion that will explore how partisanship is related to the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in the contemporary constitutional framework of the United States. This event is

Sarah Tishkoff, the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor in Genetics and Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss the results of recent analyses of genome-scale genetic variation in geographically, linguistically, and ethnically divers

James A. Baker, former counsel for Intelligence Policy and associate deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, will reflect on the recent disclosures of government surveillance activities. Formerly in charge of representing the government before

A panel discussion focused on the issues arising out of the Syrian civil war, in particular the recent apparent use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime and the likelihood of a military response by the United States. The situation highlights a number

State Representative Stephen Bloom (R), serving the 199th Legislative District in Cumberland County State Senator Larry Farnese (D), serving the 1st Senatorial District in Philadelphia The participants will discuss the merits of gun control provisions c