| January 31,
2002 |
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Contingent Valuation
Richard T. Carson, Jr. Professor in the Economics Department
at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Using
Surveys to Value Public Goods: The Contingent Valuation Method
David Schkade Senior Visiting Research Scholar at the
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at
Princeton University in New Jersey
J. Mark Schuster Visiting Scholar at the Harris Graduate
School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago,
and co-author of Preserving the Built Heritage: Tools for
Implementation
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| January 30,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
America's Role in International Affairs
Joseph Nye: Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University. His latest book is The Paradox of American Power:
Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone
Steven Kull - Director of the Center on Policy Attitudes at
the University of Maryland. He is the co-author of Misreading
the Public: The Myth of a New Isolationism
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| January 29,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
Regulating Corporate Practices
Lawrence Mitchell Professor of Law at George Washington
University, and author of Corporate Irresponsibility: Americas
Newest Export
Sam Peltman Professor of Economics at the University
of Chicago
Michael Greenstone Assistant Professor of Economics at
the University of Chicago
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| January 28,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
Museums In Public Life
Steven Conn Author of Museums and American Intellectual
Life, 1876-1926
Ivan Karp Editor of Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics
and Politics of Museum Display
Kimerly Rorshach Director of the Smart Museum of Art
at the University of Chicago
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| January 25,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
Contemporary Black Cinema in the USA
Sergio Mims Film critic for NewCity Chicago and
Faculty in the Film and Video department at Columbia College
Michael Gillespie Instructor in the Program of Film and
Video at Duke University
Anna Everett Associate Professor in the Department of
Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
and editor of the anthology Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy
of Black Film Criticism, 1909
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| January 24,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
The Death Penalty
J. Budziszewski - Professor of Government and Philosophy at
the University of Texas at Austin and author of The Revenge
of Conscience
David Novack - Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of
Toronto
Thomas Geraghty - Professor of Law and Director of the Legal
Clinic at Northwestern University
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| January 23,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
Network Culture
Wim Wiewel Dean of the College of Business Administration
at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Mark Taylor Author of The Moment of Complexity: Emerging
Network Culture, and director of the Center for Technology
in the Arts and Humanities at Williams College in Williamstown,
Massachusetts
Judith Donath Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of
the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab
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| January 22,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
Oceans, Ice Caps, and Climate Stability
Raymond Pierrehumbert Professor of Geophysical Sciences
at the University of Chicago
David Archer Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the
University of Chicago
Richard Alley Professor of Geosciences at Penn State
University
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| January 21,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
The Changing Definition of Criminal Evidence
Ken Alder Professor of History at Northwestern University
Stephen Stigler Professor of Statistics at University
of Chicago
Jennifer Mnookin Professor of Law at the University of
Virginia
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| January 18,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
Categorizing art
Vera Zolberg Professor of Liberal Studies and Sociology
at the New School University in New York City, and co-editor
of Outsider Art: Contested Boundaries in Contemporary Culture
James Yood Assistant Chair and Lecturer in the Department
of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University, and author
of Spirited Visions: Portraits of Chicago Artists
Michael Bonesteel Board member at Intuit: The Center
for Intuitive and Outsider Art, and author of Henry Darger:
Art and Selected Writings
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| January 17,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
Plagiarism
David Plotz - Washington Correspondent for Slate, the
online magazine
Daniel Born - Editor of The Common Review and the chief
of staff at the Great Books Foundation
Neal Bowers - Poet and the author of Words for the Taking:
The Hunt for a Plagiarist
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| January 16,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
The relationship between newspapers and their readers
Loren Ghiglione Dean of the Medill School of Journalism
at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
Jay Rosen Professor in the Department of Journalism and
Mass Communication at New York University in Manhattan, and
author of What Are Journalists For?
Jim Warren Deputy Managing Editor and former Washington
Bureau Chief of the Chicago Tribune
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| January 15,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
How the Drug War became entrenched government policy
Professor Andrew Rich Professor of Political Science
at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Professor Charles Manski Professor in the Department
of Economics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
Professor Mark Kleiman Professor in the School of Public
Policy and Social Research at the University of California -
Los Angeles
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| January 14,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
Property rights and the public interest
Richard Epstein Professor
of Law at the University of Chicago and the author of Takings:
Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain
David Dana Professor of
Environmental Law at the Northwestern University School of Law
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| January 11,
2002 |
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Gretchen
Helfrich and guests |
Early Black Cinema and Its Audience
Jacqueline Stewart Member of the Committee on Cinema
and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, and author
of the forthcoming book Migrating to the Movies: The
Emergence of Black Urban Film Culture, 1893-1920
Gerald R. Butters, Jr. Professor
of History at Aurora
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University in Illinois, and author of the forthcoming
Man and the Hood: Portrayals of Black Masculinity in
American Silent Films
Pearl Bowser Filmmaker and Founder of African Diaspora
Images - a collection of historical and contemporary African-American
and African films and memorabilia, and author of Oscar
Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and
Race Cinema of the Silent Era
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| January 10,
2002 |
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"Outing" Historical Figures
Deborah Nelson - Faculty member at the Center for Gender Studies
at the University of Chicago.
Jonathan Ned Katz - Author of Love Stories: Sex Between Men
Before Homosexuality
Larry Gross - Author of Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay
Men, and the Media in America
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| January 9,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
Urban Wildlife
Stephen Pruett-Jones Associate Professor in the Department
of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago
Harriet Ritvo Chair of the History Department at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and author
of The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in
the Victorian Age
Joel Brown Professor of Biological Sciences at the University
of Illinois at Chicago
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| January 8,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
Women and Universal Rights
Ellen Willis Director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism
Program at New York University
Ann Snitow Professor of Women's Studies at the Eugene
Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School University
Anthony Chase Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Human Rights
Program of the University of Chicago
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| January 7,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
Argentina and the International Monetary Fund
Robert Aliber Professor of International Economics and
Finance at the University of Chicago
Paul Blustien Author of The Chastening: Inside the
Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the
IMF
Mark Weisbrot Co-Director of the Center for Economic
and Social Policy Research.
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| January 4,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
Big Government
Roger Pilon - Vice President of Legal Affairs at the Cato Institute
in Washington, D.C.
David Strauss - Professor of Law at the University of Chicago
Jean Bethke Elshtain - Professor in the Divinity School at the
University of Chicago
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| January 3,
2002 |
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Nano-technology
Richard Van Duyne - Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University
Heinrich Jaeger - Professor of Physics at the University of
Chicago
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| January 2,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
African - American Political Thought
Michael Dawson - Professor of Political Science at the University
of Chicago and the author of Black Visions: The Roots of
Contemporary African - American Political Ideologies
David Bositis - Scholar at the Joint Center for Political and
Economic Studies and the author of Diverging Generations:
The Transformation of African American Policy Policy Views
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| January 1,
2002 |
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to the Entire Program |
Video Games and Gender
Henry Jenkins Professor of Literature and Comparative
Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
author of From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer
Games
Gerard Jones Author of Killing Monsters: Why Children
Need Fantasy Games, Superheroes, and Make Believe Violence
Jeanne Funk Professor of Psychology at the University
of Toledo in Ohio
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