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March 8, 2010
Immigration and Islam

Jose Casanova, Tariq Modood, and Aristide Zolberg

Moderated by Chase Robinson

 

December 7, 2009

What are the Varieties of Non Belief?
Susan Jacoby, Colin McGinn, and Denys Turner.
Moderated by Gustav Niebuhr

 

November 17, 2009

What is Religion, What is it For, How does it Change?
Daniel Dennett, John F. Haught, and David Sloan Wilson
Moderated by Gustav Niebuhr

 

April 28, 2009

Educational Power
James J. Duderstadt, Deborah Davis, Enrique Dussel Peters, and Yu Lizhong

 

April 13, 2009
Power and Music
Vijay Iyer and DJ Rekha

Introduced by music critic Gary Giddins

 

April 8, 2009
Power and Fashion
Gabi Asfour, Guy Trebay, and others

Moderated by Eugenia Paulicelli

 

April 6, 2009
Power and Law: Immigration Reform
Mallika Dutt, Judy Rabinovitz and others

Moderated by John Mollenkopf

 

March 16, 2009
Power and Religion: Christian Thought and American Politics
Randall Balmer and Douglas Kmiec

Moderated by John Torpey


March 10, 2009
Military Power

Alex de Waal, General Barry McCaffrey, Thomas Ricks
Moderated by Thomas Weiss

 

March 3, 2009
Cultural Power: Art
Peggy Ahwesh and Eileen Myles

Moderated by Linda Norden

November 17, 2008
Power & Sex: America's War on Sexual Rights
Dagmar Herzog, Lynn Paltrow, Katha Pollitt, Faye Wattleton
Moderated by Michelle Fine

 

November 10, 2008
Cultural Power

Tom Stoppard, Derek Walcott
Moderated by David Nasaw

 

October 20, 2008

Economic Power

Naomi Klein, Joseph Stiglitz, Hernando de Soto
Moderated by David Harvey


October 2, 2008
Political Power

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Nicholas D. Kristof, Mary Robinson
Moderated by Thomas Weiss

 

September 23, 2008
Power & Religion: The African-American Church and American Politics

Obery Hendricks, Yolanda Pierce, Barbara Savage

 

September 19, 2008
Power & Progressive Politics: Europe

Jane Kramer, Walter Veltroni