Fall 2007

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19 September
Origin of the Universe

Janna Levin, physicist and astronomer, Barnard College; author of How the Universe Got Its Spots
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3 October
Reinventing the Sacred

Stuart Kauffman, biologist and founder of BiosGoup; author of At Home in the Universe
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24 October
Evolution of Human Symbolism

Randall White, anthropologist, New York University; author of Prehistoric Art: The Symbolic Journey of Humankind
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7 November
Origins of Artificial Intelligence

Manuel DeLanda, philosopher, Columbia University; author of War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
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28 November,
Origins of Musical Ornamentation

Julianne Baird, soprano and musicologist, Rutgers University; one of the world's 10 most recorded women


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Spring 2008

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6 February
An Artist's Sources

Kiki Smith, feminist artist, member of Time 100 (Most Influential People, 2006)
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8 February
Singing from the Source

Clerks' Group, chamber choir
multimedia concert of the Roman de Fauvel

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20 February
Origins of Obesity

Rexford Ahima, MD, endocrinologist
Penn Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
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28 February
Googlization of Everything

Siva Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian and media scholar University of Virginia; Keynote address, Graduate Humanities Forum Conference on Origins
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19 March
1,000,000 Years of Music

Gary Tomlinson, musicologist and Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, Penn
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2 April
Original Sin

Elaine Pagels, historian of religion
Princeton University; author of The Origin of Satan
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