http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1291570919.01291570924 The Aurora Forum at Stanford University - Tracks en-us Education no Environmental Science - Audio - Nature’s Economy: Population, Consumption, and Sustainability - Stanford conservation biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich discuss three challenging global trends: increasing population, rising consumption, and growing political and economic inequalities. With Stanford biology professor and ecologist Gretchen Daily. 1291964066 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:44:12 GMT Education Paul Ehrlich, Anne Ehrlich, Gretchen Daily 1:37:01 no Environmental Science - Audio - Clean, Secure, and Efficient Energy: Can We Have It All? - (September 5, 2007) The race is on for commercialization of domestic fuels that shrink our carbon footprint, and change is in the wind: solar and wind power, biofuels, fuel cells, nuclear power, natural gas and "clean" coal are considered. But what about 1368627524 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:06:11 GMT Education Sally Benson, Paul Ehrlich, Fred Krupp, George Shultz, JB Straubel, Amy Goodman (Moderator) 2:03:32 no Spirituality and Religion - Audio - Spirituality and Social Change: An Interfaith Roundtable - To celebrate the January 2007 publication of Advocate of the Social Gospel, volume VI of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., and probe the meaning of Dr. King's preaching, we present an interfaith roundtable that focuses on the relation of spiritual pr 1292878255 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:54:23 GMT Education Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann (moderator), Prof. Susannah Heschel, Rev. Dr. Heng Sure, Imam Zaid Shakir, and Rev. Dr. Raphael Warnock 1:59:22 no Spirituality and Religion - Audio - America’s Jesus - Religious studies professors Thomas Sheehan (Stanford) and Stephen Prothero (Boston University) join historian Richard Fox, professor of history at the University of Southern California, for a lively conversation on the role of Jesus in the American imagi 1292030499 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:54:01 GMT Education Richard Fox, Stephen Prothero, Thomas Sheehan 1:33:48 no Spirituality and Religion - Audio - Esalen: Education for Life on the Edge - (December 6, 2007) The brainchild of two Stanford graduates, Michael Murphy and Richard Price, Esalen Institute on the Big Sur coast has had a profound influence on American religious history over the last half-century.  Many of the practices and ideas th 1431838179 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:13:08 GMT Education Michael Murphy, Jeff Kripal, Mark Gonnerman (Moderator) 1:32:07 no Spirituality and Religion - Audio - On the Pursuit of Happiness: An Evening with Robert Thurman and Pico Iyer - (April 24, 2008) Novelist and travel writer Pico Iyer joins Robert Thurman, Columbia University professor and founder of Tibet House in New York City, for a conversation on the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, education, life on the road, and things that contribute 1526046568 Wed, 07 May 2008 17:12:32 GMT Education Pico Iyer, Robert Thurman, and Mark Gonnerman (Moderator) 1:35:57 no Authors - Audio - An Evening with Calvin Trillin - Famous as America's "deadline poet," Calvin Trillin has been a gadfly in verse for The Nation since 1990, delighting readers with his rhyming observations on the news of the day. One of the most stylish and humorous of contemporary food writers, his artic 1292829236 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:59:08 GMT Education Calvin Trillin, Alan Acosta 1:26:41 no History - Audio - An Evening with Thomas Jefferson - National Humanities medalist, Clay S. Jenkinson presents a peak into the life and times of Thomas Jefferson. With Stanford history professor, Jack Rakove. 1292845577 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:53:10 GMT Education Clay S. Jenkinson, Jack Rakove 1:27:39 no Fine Art - Audio - An Evening with Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass - (October 8, 2007) In anticipation of Stanford Lively Arts’ West Coast premiere of Book of Longing, the Aurora Forum and Lively Arts present Philip Glass and Leonard Cohen together in conversation about their lives, works, and this unique collaboration. 1388267694 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:32:52 GMT Education Leonard Cohen, Philip Glass, Alan Acosta (Moderator) 1:16:34 no Fine Art - Audio - The Beatles on the Brain - (February 11, 2008) Forty years have passed since the Beatles released The White Album, introducing "Blackbird," "Rocky Raccoon," "Sexy Sadie," "Helter Skelter" and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" into the cultural lexicon. Please join us for a conversation with thr 1493436471 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:18:56 GMT Education Daniel Levitin, Nick Bromell, and Jonathan Berger 1:27:47 no Culture - Audio - Why Read Books? - At a time when people express concern about the fate of the book, we join three virtuoso scholars—Seth Lerer, Leah Price, and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht—who are intimately familiar with the life of the mind nurtured by the bound printed word. 1292489151 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:56:58 GMT Education Seth Lerer, Leah Price and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Moderator) 1:30:24 no Culture - Audio - Simply Delicious - Join Alice Waters, pioneer of "California Cuisine", and Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet, for a conversation on food and social change as they discuss the ongoing "Delicious Revolution" they helped launch. 1291653607 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:54:23 GMT Education Frances Moore Lappé, Alice Waters 1:36:19 no Culture - Audio - National Pride, National Shame - Internationally known human rights advocate, Angela Davis, Stanford comparative literature professor Richard Rorty, and Pulitzer Prize winner Gordon Wood tackle the issue of pride and shame that comes with an acute national identity. Kathleen Sullivan, 1292845595 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:53:10 GMT Education Angela Davis, Richard Rorty, Gordon Wood, Kathleen Sullivan 0:59:47 no Culture - Audio - Democracy and Dissent - Harper's Magazine editor Lewis Lapham discusses his urgent new polemic about the stifling of the American public's capacity for meaningful dissent at the hands of a government and media increasingly beholden to our country's wealthy few. Pamela Karlan, pr 1292894743 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:54:23 GMT Education Lewis Lapham, Pamela Karlan 1:26:16 no Philosophy - Audio - The American Soul: Founding Ideals and the American Dream - Jacob Needleman, professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University urges attention to iconic figures such as Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman, who remind us of founding ideals which may inspire our act 1292829127 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:58:29 GMT Education Jacob Needleman, Scotty McLennan 0:59:29 no Philosophy - Audio - My Education in the Path of Nonviolence - Arun Gandhi, author and grandson of India's late spiritual leader discusses ways and means to improve our prospects for a less threatening future at home and abroad. Mark Gonnerman, director of the Auurora Forum, moderates. 1292861902 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:55:22 GMT Education Arun Gandhi 1:21:57 no Philosophy - Audio - Doing Good Work - Joanne Ciulla, author of The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work, and Richard Rodriguez, award-winning PBS television essayist, discuss the American approach to work and its impact on our lives, idealogies and families. Stanford associa 1292894653 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:59:46 GMT Education Joanne Ciulla, Richard Rodriguez, Debra Satz 1:37:25 no Philosophy - Audio - Democracy Matters - Cornel West, the Class of 1943 university professor of religion at Princeton University, discusses themes and ideas from his latest book, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism. 1291768365 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:59:46 GMT Education Cornel West 1:53:35 no Social Sciences - Audio - Conversations from the Edge: Vanishing Cultures and the Ethnosphere Project - National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence Wade Davis, photographer Chris Rainier, and Aurora Forum director Mark Gonnerman discuss challenges posed to traditional cultures and ways a diverse ethnosphere (human ideas, visions, and myths) contribute 1291964757 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:47:06 GMT Education Wade Davis, Chris Rainier, and Mark Gonnerman (Moderator) 1:38:39 no Teaching and Learning - Audio - Against Ignorance: Science Education in the 21st Century - (March 9, 2008) The rise of religiously motivated threats to scientific practice and instruction in American schools has motivated biologist Richard Dawkins and physicist Lawrence Krauss to engage in a public dialogue on strategies for science education i 1514696503 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:56:30 GMT Education Richard Dawkins, Lawrence M. Krauss, Mark A. Kay (Moderator) 1:51:43 no Journalism - Audio - Is News Journalism Under Siege?: A Conversation with the Editors of Newsweek and Time - A conversation with Jim Kelly, managing editor of Time, and Mark Whitaker, editor at Newsweek, about democratic ideals in the age of consolidated corporate media. ASME Editors' Hall of Fame inductee, Richard Stolley, moderates. 1292862058 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:55:22 GMT Education Jim Kelly, Mark Whitaker, Richard Stolley 1:37:40 no Media - Audio - Public Life in a Wired World - Stanford law professor, Lawrence Lessig and UC Berkeley law professor Pamela Samuelson, discuss the role the Internet is playing in governing the way the public receive their current events and ideals. Geoffry Nunberg, Stanford linguistics professor, mod 1292309024 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:55:11 GMT Education Lawrence Lessig, Pamela Samuelson, Geoffrey Nunberg 0:59:37 no Media - Audio - An Evening with the Kitchen Sisters - The Kitchen Sisters—Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva—have been producing radio programs since 1979. With Jay Allison, they are the creators of two Peabody Award-winning series on National Public Radio: Lost & Found Sound and The Sonic Memorial Project. 1292845651 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:53:10 GMT Education Davia Nelson, Nikki Silva, Alan Acosta (Moderator) 1:24:53 no Media - Audio - American Media and the Culture of Fear - James Bettinger, journalism and communications professor at Stanford, Barry Glassner, professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, and Jay Harris, CEO of the Foundation for National Progress, discuss whether mainstream news media outle 1292732846 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:58:29 GMT Education James Bettinger, Barry Glassner, Jay Harris, Paul Saffo 1:26:42 no Public Policy - Audio - Restorative Justice: Reducing Crime by Reforming Prisoner Experience - Michael Hennessey, sheriff of San Francisco city and county and Cathrine Sneed, founder and executive director of The Garden Project, discuss the current state of affairs in the US prison system, as well as some practical and proven approaches to change t 1291964968 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:47:06 GMT Education Michael Hennessey, Cathrine Sneed, Michael Krasny 1:31:42 no Public Policy - Audio - Arbitrary Convictions Capital Punishment in the United States - As of October 2004, 117 wrongfully convicted persons from twenty-five states have been released from America's death rows, and the number continues to grow. How do such serious mistakes occur in what some call the best court system in the world? 1292489280 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:58:29 GMT Education Sister Helen Prejean, Lawrence C. Marshall, William F. Abrams (Moderator) 1:51:14 no United States Politics - Audio - The American Presidency: Character and Crisis - Michael Beschloss, historian of the Presidency, and David Kennedy, professor of history at Stanford and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, discuss the topic of character and its role in the American presidency. Michael Krasy, of KQED's Forum, moderates. 1292829336 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:59:08 GMT Education Michael Beschloss, David Kennedy, Michael Krasny 1:24:43 no United States Politics - Audio - Talking Right and Left: The Language of American Politics - Two linguists, Deborah Tannen of Georgetown University and Geoffrey Nunberg of Stanford, assess the state of political langueage and ask where it is headed. Alan Acosta, associate vice president and director of university communications at Stanford moder 1292878467 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:58:54 GMT Education Deborah Tannen, Geoffrey Nunberg 0:59:25 no United States Politics - Audio - Onward! A Post-Election Town Hall Meeting - This post-election Town Hall Meeting begins with forty-five minutes of conversation between Democracy Now host Amy Goodman; Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; David Dill, Stanford professor of computer science; and John McManus, dire 1292845731 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:56:14 GMT Education Amy Goodman, Larry Diamond, David Dill, John McManus 1:35:14 no United States Politics - Audio - New Media and Political Campaigns - (July 15, 2007) What are we to make of the increasing expression of politics as media experience? How are "new media" (mobile video, YouTube, blogs) influencing political campaigns? Join three experts on political messaging for a stimulating conversation 1344249609 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:18:27 GMT Education Jonathan Alter, Dan Schnur, David Demarest (Moderator) 1:38:42 no Law - Audio - True Colors: Myth, Magic, and the American Flag - Carolyn Marvin, Yates Professor in communications at the University of Pennsylvania , reflects on her decade of research into the history, myth and magic of our nation's flag. With Hans Ulrich Gumbrect, professor of literature at Stanford. 1292309112 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:55:11 GMT Education Carolyn Marvin, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht 1:39:36 no Social Activism - Audio - Your Body on the Line? - Writer, activist and founder of the Circle of Life Foundation, Julia Butterfly Hill talks about the limits that humans may reach in order to protect and celebrate the wild world that is our home. With Rebecca Solnit, Bay Area writer and culture critic. 1292685157 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:00:09 GMT Education Julia Butterfly Hill, Rebecca Solnit 0:59:40 no Social Activism - Audio - Title IX at 35: A Conversation with Billie Jean King - (April 28, 2007) “Title IX was passed in 1972 to provide equal rights for young men and women. Why are we still battling for this now?” Join Billie Jean King and LaDoris Cordell for a conversation that explores this and other questions. 1310754187 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:21:55 GMT Education Billie Jean King, LaDoris Cordell (Interviewer) 1:58:27 no Social Activism - Audio - What Would Martin Say? An Evening with Clarence B. Jones - (January 17, 2008) Join us for an in-depth conversation with Clarence B. Jones, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s counsel and draft speechwriter who is completing a memoir while in residence at Stanford’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. 1472632949 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:54:44 GMT Education Clarence B. Jones and Mark Gonnerman (Interviewer) 1:30:29 no International Security - Audio - The Truth of War - What are immediate and long-term effects of experiencing combat firsthand? In a conversation moderated by Stanford School of Medicine Professor David Spiegel, we probe this question as Chris Hedges, a veteran war correspondent, and Anthony Swofford, a for 1291752307 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:58:54 GMT Education Chris Hedges, Anthony Swofford, and David Spiegel (Moderator) 1:34:02 no International Security - Audio - Preconditions for a Peaceful World - James Gilligan, director for the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Pennsylvania discusses ways and means to improve our prospects for a less threatening future at home and abroad. Mark Gonnerman, director of the Auurora 1292846022 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:57:04 GMT Education James Gilligan 1:44:20 no International Security - Audio - Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear - Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet discusses ways and means to improve our prospects for a less threatening future at home and abroad. Mark Gonnerman, director of the Auurora Forum, moderates. 1292765011 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:48:05 GMT Education Frances Moore Lappé 1:25:47 no International Security - Audio - IRAQ: REFRAME First of Five-Part Series with Montalvo Arts Center - (November 12, 2007) In this first conversation, journalist Marjorie Miller of the Los Angeles Times interviews Washington Post reporter Anthony Shadid on the effects of the war on Iraqi institutions and civilians. 1427490511 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:43:28 GMT Education Anthony Shadid and Marjorie Miller (Interviewer) 1:30:54 no Globalization - Audio - Democracy and the Middle East: Prospects and Problems - Professor Diamond discusses prospects and problems in the Middle East with Dr. Abbas Milani, co-director of the Hoover Institution's Iran Democracy Project and director of Stanford's new Iranian Studies Program. Erik Jensen from the Freeman Spogli Institu 1292047289 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:42:39 GMT Education Larry Diamond, Abbas Milani, Erik Jensen (Moderator) 1:32:50 no Globalization - Audio - Celebrating South African Freedom A Symposium on the International Campaign to End Apartheid - The Aurora Forum, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, and the Stanford Institute for International Studies are proud to sponsor a one-day symposium on the history and legacy of international campaigns to end Apartheid in South Af 1291752412 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:59:08 GMT Education Clayborne Carson, Connie Field, Amanda Kemp, Donald Kennedy, Steve Phillips, Justice Albie Sachs 1:35:48 no Career Development - Audio - From Sharecropper’s Daughter to Surgeon General - Former superior court judge LaDoris Cordell will interviews Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Surgeon General of the United States, about her personal journey and remarkable life of public service. 1292894926 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:55:47 GMT Education Joycelyn Elders, LaDoris Cordell 1:45:22 no