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23 SEPTEMBER SOCIAL NETWORKS Michael Kearns, Professor of Computer and Information Science, Penn |
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7 OCTOBER STRANGE LOOPS Douglas Hofstadter, Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science, Indiana University; Author of Gödel Escher Bach and I Am a Strange Loop |
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14 OCTOBER ENGLISH AS A WORLD LANGUAGE David Crystal, Honorary Professor of Linguistics, University of Wales; Author of Txtng: the Gr8 Db8 |
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28 OCTOBER PANDEMICS Helen Epstein, Author of The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa |
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18 NOVEMBER DARWIN, HOOKER, AND EMPIRE Jim Endersby, Historian, University of Sussex, with Curatorial Tour of "Dialogues with Darwin" Exhibition at the American Philosophical Society |
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2 DECEMBER AESCHYLUS/MATTA-CLARK Anne Carson, Poet; Author of The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos |
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27 JANUARY CHINESE NETWORKING Victor Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania; Editor of The Columbia History of Chinese Literature |
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10 FEBRUARY FORGING MASS AUDIENCES–THE U.S. BEST SELLER Peter Conn, Professor of English, Penn; Author of The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America |
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19 FEBRUARY GRADUATE HUMANITIES FORUM KEYNOTE Laura Otis, Professor of English, Emory University |
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24 FEBRUARY CREATIVITY AND CONNECTION Lewis Hyde, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University; Author of Trickster Makes This World |
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3 MARCH DANCE & FILM Joan Acocella, Dance Critic, The New Yorker; Author of Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints |
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14 April DR. S.T. LEE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE COSMOPOLITANISM Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University; Author of The Ethics of Identity |
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