Speakers & Events

Aging (Time's Potential, panel)
Tariq Ali (fanaticism, belief, empires)
Natalie Angier (womanhood)
Anonymous 4, with Mary Carruthers
Robert Barchi (early watch design)
Alexander Boraine (democracy)
Leon Botstein (music styles)
Louise Braverman (sleep domains)
Jay Buckey (sleep in space)
Rebecca Bushnell (garden society)
Arthur Caplan/Stephen Eck (bioethics)
Dipesh Chakrabarty (subaltern history)
Judy Chicago (style, eponymous)
David Cohen (fantasy realism)
Robert Cort (movies as secular religion)
George Crumb & eighth blackbird
Arthur Danto (Three Brillo Boxes)
Robert Darnton (Louis XV|scandalous lit)
Destiny and Design (Indic mss. exhibition)
David F. Dinges (sleep + waking)
John Dixon Hunt (gardens)
Johanna Drucker (virtual codex)
Fashioning the Body
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (time & culture)
JT Fraser (time)
Gospel Music (Dottie Peoples)
Steven Hahn (slavery)
Marc-André Hamelin|Jody Karin Applebaum
Paul Hendrickson (Sons of Mississippi)
Edward Hirsch (love poetry)
Human Nature/Human Rights (civic dialogue)
Margaret Jacob (freemasonry)
Henry Jenkins (comic books)
Charles Jencks (postmodern architecture)
Lady in the Dark Project (theatre)
David Landes (Revolution in Time)
Jonathan Lear (Freud & dreams)
Richard Lewontin (scientists & elite knowledge)
Philip Lopate (personal writing)
Louis Menand (Dr. Seuss/Theodor Geisel)
María Rosa Menocal (shared cultures/religions)
Steven Meyer (Gertrude Stein)
Jack Miles (scriptures|bible)
Stephen Morse (altered consciousness)
Andrew Newberg (neurotheology)
Martha Nussbaum (gender justice|human rights)
One Book, One Philadelphia (Lorene Cary)
Othello (Guthrie Theater National Tour, 2004)
Annabel Patterson (Andrew Marvell)
Philadelphia Architecture (Brownlee/Thomas)
Philadelphia Cuisine (Poses|Rozin)
Philadelphia Decorative Arts (Helen Drutt)
Philadelphia Mural Art (Jane Golden)
Philadelphia Self-Taught Art (John Ollman)
Philadelphia Sound (Freeman|Ramsey|Narmour)
Peter Stallybrass (Pepys + the sociable bed)
Wendy Steiner (Adam's Dream|Eve)
Philadelphia Textiles (Linda Woal)
Philadelphia Urban Design (David Slovic)
Philadelphia Writers (Forum's inaugural)
David Pingree (Kala system of time)
Steven Pinker (how mind works)
Sylvia Plachy (REPROS exhibition)
Charles Rosenberg (books|medicine)
Qur'an (conference)
Qur'an (exhibition)
Karim Rashid (industrial design)
Harry Reicher (holocaust belief)
Mark Rosekind (sleep & being alert)
Sandra Rosenthal (time|pragmatism)
Anthony Santomero (consumer confidence)
Ingrid Schaffner (Dalí’s Dream of Venus)
André Schiffrin (publishing industry)
Edward Said (late style)
Stuart Semmel (Mass Observation)
Patti Smith (exhibition & concert)
Peter Stallybrass (books as physical objects)
Robert Stickgold (sleep, learning, memory)
Mary Sweeney (cinematic dreams)
Isabel Swift (romance novel)
Robert Farris Thompson (African art)
Time Among the Maya (Houston|Restall|Golden)
Mario Vargos Llosa (reading)
Hans Christian von Baeyer (time|physics)
John Edgar Wideman (readings)
Jonathan Weiner (biology of time)
Allen Wood (ethics of belief)
Writing Surfaces (exhibition)
Writing Technologies (conference)
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl (bisexuality)