19 September | Origin of the Universe
Janna Levin, physicist and astronomer, Barnard College; author of How the Universe Got Its Spots

3 October | Reinventing the Sacred
Stuart Kauffman, biologist and founder of BiosGoup; author of At Home in the Universe

24 October | Evolution of Human Symbolism
Randall White, anthropologist, New York University; author of Prehistoric Art: The Symbolic Journey of Humankind

7 November | Origins of Artificial Intelligence
Manuel DeLanda, philosopher, Columbia University; author of War in the Age of Intelligent Machines

28 November | Origins of Musical Ornamentation
Julianne Baird, soprano and musicologist, Rutgers University; one of the world's 10 most recorded women

6 February| An Artist's Sources
Kiki Smith, feminist artist
member of Time 100 (Most Influential People, 2006)

8 February | Singing from the Source
Clerks' Group, chamber choir
multimedia concert of the Roman de Fauvel

20 February | Origins of Obesity
Rexford Ahima, MD, endocrinologist
Penn Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism

28 February | Googlization of Everything
Siva Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian and media scholar University of Virginia; Keynote address, Graduate Humanities Forum Conference on Origins

19 March | 1,000,000 Years of Music
Gary Tomlinson, musicologist
and Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, Penn