AUDIO LIBRARY

Copyright and the First Amendment
Wendy Gordon - Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Her forthcoming book is The Core Concept of Copyright: Ethics and Economics in Intellectual Property
Graeme Dinwoodie - Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. His forthcoming book is The Politics of Knowledge: International Intellectual Property Relations
Susan Harris - Editor-in-Chief of the Northwestern University Press in Evanston, Illinois

The State of Biography
Elayne Tobin - Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Temple University, and author of the forthcoming book Fearing For Our Lives: Biography and Middlebrow Culture in Late 20th Century America
Franz Schulze - Author of Mies Van Der Rohe: A Critical Biography
Hazel Rowley - Author of Richard Wright: The Life and Times

Justice in Wartime
Jack Goldsmith - Professor in the Law School at the University of Chicago
Robert Pape - Director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he teaches Political Science
Jacqueline Bhabha - Executive Director of the Harvard University Human Rights Committee

Joan of Arc
Kelly Devries - Associate Professor in the Department of History at Loyola College in Maryland. He is the author of Joan of Arc: A Military Leader
Francoise Meltzer - Professor in and Chair of the Comparative Literature Department at the University of Chicago. She is also author of For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity
Nadia Margolis - Independent scholar and author of Joan of Arc in History, Literature, and Film: A Select, Annotated Bibliography

Revisiting the Founding Fathers
Roger Wilkins - Author of Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism
James Read - Author of Power versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson and Jefferson
Tom Kranawitter - Director of Academic Affairs at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy

Food and Culture
Michael Dietler - Co-editor of Feasts: Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on Food, Politics, and Power.
Amy Bentley - Historian and the author of Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity and a forthcoming cultural history of baby food.
Rick Bayless - Chef-owner of Frontera Grill and host of the PBS series Rick Bayless Mexico: One Plate at a Time, and author of the companion book by the same name.

String Theory and the Universe
Savdeep Sethi - Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and in the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago
Andy Strominger - Professor of Physics at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts
Brian Greene - Professor of Physics at Columbia University in New York City and author of The Elegant Universe : Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

The Supreme Court's Current Term
Dennis Hutchinson - Professor of Law and Editor of the Supreme Court Review at the University of Chicago
Tom Merrill - Professor of Law at Northwestern University

The Evolution of Comics
Art Spiegelman - Creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel series Maus: A Survivors Tale, co-founder of Raw (aka Real.Art.Works) Books and Graphics. He also co-edited the Little Lit anthology of comics for children
Chris Ware - Author of the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth. Ware also penned the comic book series The ACME Novelty Library. He currently writes and draws the weekly comic strip Rusty Brown
Scott McCloud - Comics artist and theorist, and author of Reinventing Comics and Understanding Comics

Comics and Storytelling
Will Eisner: Creator of the comic book series "The Spirit". His latest graphic novel is The Name of the Game
Francios Mouly: Art Editor at The New Yorker magazine and co-editor of the Little Lit anthology series for children.
Neil Gaiman: Graphic novelist whose latest work is American Gods

Lynching
Fitzhugh Brundage, author of Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930
Crystal Feimster, author of the forthcoming Ladies and Lynchings
Jacqueline Goldsby, author of the forthcoming A Spectacular Secret: the Cultural Logic of Lynching in American Life and Literature

Marshall McLuhan Revisited
Steve Jones - Professor and Head of the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Liss Jeffrey - Adjunct faculty member in the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto and the Director of the Electronic Commons Project
Paul Levinson - Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City

No program due to news coverage

The Power of Images
Ved Mehta - Author of All For Love, Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles, and Portrait of India
W. J. T. Mitchell - Professor in the Departments of English Language and Literature and Art History at the University of Chicago

Poetry In Public Life
Billy Collins, America's Poet Laureate and Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress
Professor Robert von Hallberg, author of Poetry, Politics, Intellectuals, 1945-1995

The Presidential Election…One Year Later
Joseph Angotti - Professor in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois. He is a former Senior Vice President at NBC News
Jack Rakove - Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Original Meaning: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution. He has edited a new collection of essays entitled, The Unfinished Election of 2000.
Jack Balkin - Professor of Law at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. He recently published an essay in the Yale Law Journal entitled "Bush v. Gore and the Boundary between Law and Politics."

Economic Management
John Frendreis – Vice President of Academic Planning and a Professor of Political Science at Loyola University in Chicago. Co-author with Raymond Tatlovich of The Modern Presidency and Economic Policy
Austan Goolsbee – Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago
Martin Eichenbaum – Professor of Economics at Northwestern University.

Immigration
Saskia Sassen - Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Her recent books include Guests and Aliens and a second edition of The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.
Bonnie Honig - Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois and Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago. She is the author of Democracy and the Foreigner.

Evolutionary Psychology
Susan Sperling - Professor of the History of Health Sciences at the University of California at San Francisco
Merlin Donald - Professor of Psychology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He is the author of A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness
John Terrell - Curator of Oceanic Archeology and Ethnology at the Field Museum of Natural History. He is the author of Archeology, Language and History: Essays on Culture and Ethnicity

John Terrell and Merlin Donald are participating in a conference called “Becoming Human…and Beyond” taking place this weekend at the Field Museum.

Power in the Global Order
Paul Kennedy - Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale University in New Haven, and the author of thirteen books, including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.
John Arquilla - Senior Analyst at the California offices of the Rand Corporation, and Co-author, with David Ronfeldt, of Networks and Netwars: The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy.
Robert Wallace - Associate Professor of Classics at Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois