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Geoffrey Stone on Freedom and Education (audio)

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2012 118:29


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Geoffrey Stone, professor and former dean ('93-'02) at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses the role of freedom and education in America today.

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Geoffrey Stone on Freedom and Education

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2012 118:29


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Geoffrey Stone, professor and former dean ('93–'02) at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses the role of freedom and education in America today.

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When Worlds Collide (audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 70:03


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Melvyn J. Shochet, Elaine M. and Samuel D. Kersten, Jr. Distinguished Service Professor in Physical Science, Department of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College at the University of Chicago

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EcoSystem Evolution: Biomimicry of the Built Environment (audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 56:48


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Justin Borevitz, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago

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Sociology, Evolution, and Religion (audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 56:05


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Jerry Coyne, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago

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Religion versus the Greatest Happiness: Bentham and Benthamism Past and Present (audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 54:05


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Philip Schofield, Professor, Faculty of Laws Director of the Bentham Project University College London

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Climate of Concern: Ethical and Religious Responses to Global Warming (audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 74:30


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Professor in the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. Michael Hogue, Assistant Professor of Theology at Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary in Chicago.

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An Evening with Earl Shorris (audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2010 130:14


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Earl Shorris is the founder of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, the award-winning global program that uses the humanities in antipoverty efforts. A contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine, he has received the National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Clinton, and the Condecoracion de la Orden del Aguila Azteca. His books include Riches for the Poor: the Clemente Course in the Humanities, The Politics of Heaven: America in Fearful Times, New American Blues: A Journey Through Poverty to Democracy, and Under the Fifth Sun: A Novel of Pancho Villa.

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