Academic Life - Clarke Forum
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Events and speakers hosted by The Clarke Forum
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| 1 | VideoBreaking the Cycle of Poverty in Haiti | The discussion will focus on the cultural and economic challenges to providing healthcare to poor Haitians in the rural and mountainous region of Grand Bois. In particular, the talk will address the subtle causes of infant mortality and specific issues regarding women’s health. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoThe Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Two States or One? | Why has the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians been so intractable, and will President Obama’s policy succeed in bringing about real peace? | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoConfronting Africa’s Anguish | Africa has been afflicted with brutal, prolonged conflicts that capture our attention, but almost incomprehensibly resist negotiated resolutions. Examining common elements in the ... | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoThomas Boellstorff - Virtual Popular Culture | Virtual worlds represent an important new modality of human interaction. The discussion will focus on emerging forms of popular culture in virtual worlds, the promise of ethnographic methods for studying these emerging forms of popular culture, and the broad social implications of their emergence. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoWhat’s the Matter with Memory? | People have been led to remember non-existent events from the recent past as well as non-existent events from their childhood. They can be led to falsely believe that they had experiences that would have been highly traumatic had they actually happened. False beliefs have consequences for people, affecting later thoughts, intentions, and behaviors | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoBuilding Intellectual Bridges | The goal of research and scholarship is the pursuit of new knowledge. That pursuit expands the intellectual endowment, but without a purpose and plan for the endowment’s use, new knowledge does not benefit society as much as it could. Scholars must take a leading role in the translation of discoveries and new knowled ... | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoLife and Debt | Film showing and discussion with the filmmaker. The film features Jamaica, land of sea, sand and sun, and a prime example of the impact economic globalization can have on a developing country. Using conventional and unconventional documentary techniques, this searing film dissects the "mechanism of debt" that is destroying local agriculture and industry while substituting sweatshops and cheap imports | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoBah, Humbug - Steve Anderson | We all know the story of Ebenezer Scrooge. But what don’t we know? Why did Dickens write A Christmas Carol in the first place? What can it tell us about Victorian culture, from the issue of poverty to the myth of the good death? How does it continue to shape our idea of the “traditional” Christmas? And what is a humbug, anyway? One part lecture, one part storytelling, and one part theatrical performance, “Bah, Humbug” explores the story behind one of the most popular ghost stories in English literature. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoSteve Bratt - Tomorrow's Web | New technology standards will shortly be finalized for the World Wide Web. These standards will transform the Web as we know it, permitting wide-spreadintegration of data, across an expanding range of Web sites and devices, and an explosion in the number of Web site creators and consumers. This future Web will be rich with disruption, opportunities, and challenges. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoSocial Justice and Prosperity in a World City? Rethinking the 'Flat World' Thesis in Bangalore, India | Social Justice and Prosperity in a World City? Rethinking the 'Flat World' Thesis in Bangalore, India | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoMarching Toward Hell | What policies should the Obama administration pursue with regard to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Iran in the ongoing war against terrorism? | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoMicrofinance and Social Entrepreneurship | Clarke Forum event examining Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoChallenges to Civil Liberties | An interactive and informal conversation with the former ACLU president concerning current and future threats and challenges to civil liberties. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoOperation Filmmaker | Do-gooder intentions go disastrously wrong when Hollywood gives a young Iraqi film student the chance of a lifetime. Operation Filmmaker tells the fascinating and riveting story of this student’s odyssey in the West, which has uncanny parallels to America’s recent | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoToxins: Toys to Toothpaste | Revolutionary advances in the environmental health sciences have discovered that low exposure to materials found in many of today’s consumer products – materials once thought safe – in fact have adverse consequences on human health. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoEuthanasia: Whose Right to Die is It? | A panel discussion reflecting diverse perspectives, viewpoints, and experiences regarding physician-assisted suicide. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoThe Financial Meltdown | Clarke Froum event exploring the consequences of the recent The Financial Meltdown. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoFocus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions | Clarke Forum event focusing on solutions to global warming. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoBreathing the Fire: Fighting to Report and Survive the War in Iraq | Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report and Survive the War in Iraq - Kimberly Dozier, CBS News- April 21, 2008 | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoReflecting on Greek Life at Dickinson | Relying on a local targeted survey of Dickinson Greek and non-Greek students, Ann Hanson, former dean of student affairs, Middlebury College, will lead a moment of reflection on the positive and negative consequences of Greek Life on the Dickinson community. The goal is to promote discussion and dialogue on a significant dimension of the Dickinson experience. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoSame Dynamics, New Directions: Centering Race, Class and Gender in Transformative Education | Why are many teacher training programs still reluctant to forefront the complexities of race, class, and gender in k-12 education? The discussion identifies a process that centers the preparation of teachers in an explicit investigation of race, class and gender in teaching. Within this discussion is a set of processes that colleges and universities can engage to begin an intentional commitment to transformative education. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoReal Reform — Real Leadership | The United States needs real leadership to tackle the health care system’s core problems: its cost, its poor quality, its limited scope, along with pernicious incentives that pervade the entire system. Dr. Nash will provide a leadership roadmap to confront these issues. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoLeading With Integrity | Derek Hathaway, Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Harsco Corporation | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoLegal Age 21 after 23 Years: Has it Worked? Is it Working? | The National Minimum Legal Drinking Age Act (NMLDA)has now been on the books for almost 24 years. During that time, we have had the opportunity to observe, measure, and experience its effects. Like most laws, the NMLDA has intended and unintended consequences. The purpose of this program is to explore those consequences in as serious, informed, dispassionate, and comprehensive a way possible, and to consider whether any change in the law, or any reorientation of public policy is warranted. This debate involves statistics, probabilities, charts, formulae, and tables. It also involves human lives. Every life lost to alcohol, in whatever setting, is lamentable, tragic. The goal of public policy is to create a safe environment. This debate will examine how effective the law has been in meeting these public policy criteria, and what Dickinson should be doing to address binge and underage drinking. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoScience for a Crowded Planet | Although most people throughout human history have regarded earth’s basic resources as inexhaustible, in today’s crowded world we must act together to mitigate and adapt to the risks generated by a rapidly changing world. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoThe Condemnation of Little B–New Age Racism in America | In 1997, Michael “Little B” Lewis, a 13 year-old black adolescent, was sentenced to life imprisonment following his adult conviction for a murder Brown says he did not commit. What is the nexus between this tragedy and the relentless ramifications of slavery for black people in America, duplicitously entrenched now as a national policy of “New Age Racism? | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoThe Media as Junkyard Dog: One Journalist's Journey From Secret CIA Prisons to the Walter Reed Scandal | Dana Priest, Pulitzer Prize winner, and the reporter who "broke the story" on Walter Reed Hospital. What is the role of the mainstream media during a time of war and growing government secrecy? Priest takes us through the obstacle course, with all its trapped doors and moral dilemmas she encounters everyday in reporting during a time of great national angst and fear of terrorism. Co-sponsored by the United States Army War College and the philosophy department. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoGender and the Search for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness | Gender and the Search for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness - Julie Nemecek & S. Bear Bergman - Oct. 11, 2007 | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoIs Choice a Human Right? Reproductive Justice in the U.S. | Some consider a safe and healthy birth a human right. In the U.S., however, it is not a right that is fully protected for all women, especially women of color. African American women die during childbirth three to four times more often than white women. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoThe End of Slavery | The world’s leading expert on contemporary slavery will share his vision on how to end slavery in our time. Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoLGBT Rights in Spain: Writing and Social Change | What role can the writer play in bringing about social change? Franc, who grew up during the repressive dictatorship of Franco, addresses this question in the context of Spain's gay and lesbian movement. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoBinary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity | Pulsars are neutron stars -- the extremely dense, strongly magnetized, rapidly spinning remnants of supernova explosions. They also appear to be nature's most precise clocks. Discovery of the first orbiting pulsar opened a new subfield of astrophysics in which the relativistic nature of gravity is tested through precise comparisons of "pulsar time" with atomic time here on earth. Among other results, the experiments have demonstrated the existence of gravitational waves, as predicted by Einstein's theory of gravity. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoDead Man Walking: The Journey Continues | Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues - Sister Helen Prejean - Oct. 4, 2007 | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoMemorial Mania: Issues of Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America | Memorial mania: Issues of Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America - Erika Doss, University of Colorado - March 20, 2008 | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoThe Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap | The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap - Stephanie Coontz - Feb. 23, 2006 | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoThe Situation: A panel discussion preceding the showing of the film "The Situation" | The Situation: A panel discussion preceding the showing of the film "The Situation" by Philip Haas - March 24, 2007 | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoAddressing Climate Change: A Least-Cost Strategy | Addressing Climate Change: A Least-Cost Strategy - Roger Sant - March 22, 2007 | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoDrinking Age Debate | Drinking Age Debate. A panel discussion - March 6, 2008 | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoElection 2008: The Press and the Profundity of Race | Election 2008: The Press and the Profundity of Race - Pamela Newkirk - Nov. 11, 2008 | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoGuantanamo and the Nation's Narrative: From Enemy Combatants to Lawfare | Guantanamo and the Nation's Narrative: From Enemy Combatants to Lawfare - Richard Wilson - Sept. 25, 2008 | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 41 | VideoHuman Rights: An Analysis of Saudi Arabia and the Impact of Islam | Human Rights: An Analysis of Saudi Arabia and the Impact of Islam - Anthony Bonono | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 42 | VideoWriting and the Disappeared of Latin America - Alicia Partnoy | A survivor's perspective on the role of the writer in the struggle against feminicide and the "disappearing" of political dissidents in Latin America. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Man Behind the Thrones - Vincent Paterson '72 | Patterson talks about his career in the entertainment business and the challenges he confronts as he works intimately with famous performers, making them look their best, while attempting to remain fairly anonymous himself. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 44 | VideoTransnational Gender and Sexuality Symposium | This one-day symposium offers perspectives from three scholars critically exploring sexuality and gender identities in relation to shifting cultural and national boundaries | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 45 | VideoWhat Happened and Why? - 2008 Election Wrap-up | The race for president will surely take many interesting and unexpected twists and turns as the fall campaign season rolls on toward Electio ... | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 46 | VideoTom Ridge – “Constitution Day Address” | The annual Constitution Day Address was established by The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues in 1995. Each year a prominent public figure is invited to speak at Dickinson College on contemporary issues as they relate to the constitution. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 47 | VideoWhen Bob Dylan Came Knocking | Bob Dylan popularized Eric Lott’s book by putting its title on his 2001 album “Love and Theft.” Dylan’s “lift” of the title reflected Lott’s view that appropriations are fundamental to popular culture and that artistic creativity has an important bearing on education and identity formation. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 48 | VideoDebate: Should Pennsylvania Legalize Marijuana? | Thousands of Pennsylvanians each year are arrested for possessing and using marijuana. Does this policy of jailing marijuana users make any sense? What are the reasons for this policy? What are the reasons against it? Our panelists will debate these issues prior to a general question-and-answer period. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 49 | VideoThe Real F-Word: FAT | Marilyn Wann offers a funny and engaging discussion of what it currently means to be fat or thin, the impact of such messages, and a revolutionary new alternative for how we should live in and think about our bodies. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 50 | VideoHoward Zinn’s “Marx in Soho” | Returning to earth for one hour to clear his name, Karl Marx launches into a passionate, funny and moving defense of his life and political ideas in Howard Zinn’s brilliant, timely play, Marx in Soho. The play is an excellent introduction to Marx’s life, his passion for radical change, his analysis of society, and its relevance to current events, trends, and developments. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 51 | VideoThe Colby Project | Carl Colby, P’11, Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker. | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 52 | VideoFree the Internet? | Chuck Cosson, Senior Policy Counsel, Microsoft | 1/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 52 Episodes |
