Mann will discuss the topic of human-caused climate change through the prism of his own experiences as a reluctant and accidental public figure in the societal debate over global warming. This event is jointly sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contempora

Joan Steitz – Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University - Recipient of Dickinson's Annual Joseph Priestley Award This talk will trace the origins of our understanding of how small cellular particles contribute to the

Angela Stent, professor, Georgetown University. The U.S-Russian relationship faces new challenges as President Barack Obama embarks on his second term. Both countries will have to reassess the relative priority of interests versus values as they seek to

Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar, Middlebury College; Recipient of The Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism McKibben will highlight the ways in which environmental groups are working a

Beatriz Diaz, Professor, University of Havana This lecture focuses on the paradoxes that characterize U.S. role and image in the world: U.S. culture, technological development, civil society, economic influence and military power will be discussed and ev

Kris Perry. Executive Director, First Five Years Fund In May 2009, two California couples—Kris Perry and Sandy Stier of Berkeley, and Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo of Burbank—filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging California’s Proposition 8 u

Peter Lev, Professor, Towson University Twentieth Century-Fox has always been involved in local, national, and international politics. This lecture will describe Fox’s political activism in the 1940s and then fast-forward to the present. The event i

Corinne Moss-Racusin, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University Despite persistent gender disparity, no experimental research has investigated whether subtle gender bias may be contributing to the underrepresentation of women within the academic science co

John R. Lott Jr., Author and Fox News Contributor, will argue that crime rates fall when law-abiding citizens are given the chance to defend themselves. The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues has sponsored and planned this event in partnership with the

Richard Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus, University of Nottingham; Co-founder, The Equality Trust. Since before the French Revolution, many people have believed that inequality is divisive and socially corrosive. Now that we have data allowing us to compa