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Speakers in this series

Ariel Dorfman Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies, Duke University.

Who Are the Real Barbarians? A Latin American Perspective
Tue, 08 Oct 2002 | Stafford Little Lectures

Jared Diamond Professor of Physiology, School of Medicine, UCLA

Collapses of Ancient Societies, and their Lessons for Today.
Wed, 09 Oct 2002 | Louis Clark Farnum Lactures

Bernard Williams Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford; Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor, University of California, Berkeley

The Human Prejudice
Tue, 15 Oct 2002 | Walter E. Edge Lectures

Vincent Courtillot Université Paris 7, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, et Institut Universitaire de France.

Mass extinctions in the Phanerozoic: a single cause and if yes which?
Wed, 04 Dec 2002 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures

Jonathan Glover King's College

Towards Humanism in Psychiatry: Interpretation
Wed, 12 Feb 2003 |

Lawrence Lessig Stanford Law School

The Creative Commons
Thu, 20 Feb 2003 | Walter E. Edge Lectures

Ziba Mir Hosseini Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge and at the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Islamic Law and Feminism: Opening a Dialogue
Thu, 06 Mar 2003 | Walter E. Edge Lectures

David Denby The New Yorker

Do Movies have a Future?
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 | J. Edward Farnum Lectures

Susan Estrich University of Southern California

Sex and Power: The State of Women in America
Thu, 27 Mar 2003 | Spencer Trask Lectures

John Hennessy President, Stanford University

Perspectives on High Performance Computer Architecture: History and Challenges
Tue, 15 Apr 2003 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures