Copyright (c) 2013 Occidental College All rights reserved. http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora Recent documents in Agora Fall 2010 Events en-us Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:59:17 PST 3600 http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/11 http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/11 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:20:52 PDT Why do people vary in their beliefs about what is possible, what is plausible, and what is true? Drawing on a decade of research, Psychology Prof. Andrew Shtulman will discuss how two particular patterns of reasoning, modal reasoning and essentialist reasoning, constrain the kinds of claims one is willing to endorse and the kinds of concepts one is able to acquire. His research suggests that differences of belief among highly educated adults can often be traced back to developmental changes in children's early inductive biases.

]]> Agora Project http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/10 http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/10 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:20:51 PDT Christopher Scherer comes to speak at Professor Gonzalez's Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: First Amendment class.

]]> Agora Project http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/9 http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/9 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:20:49 PDT Italian Philosopher Roberto Esposito is the author of such works as Communitas and Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy.

]]> Agora Project http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/8 http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/8 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:19:46 PST On Tuesday, November 9, two guest speakers spoke on campus about immigration issues and Arizona's new controversial law as part of the First Tuesday Speaker Series. Our guests are Dr. Jack Chin from the University of Arizona Law School, and Franc Contreras, a freelance journalist from Mexico.

]]> Agora Project http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/7 http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/7 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:13:46 PST Gordon A. MacInnes has devoted four decades to government service and leadership on issues related to education, poverty, and urban living. Prior to becoming a fellow at The Century Foundation, he served from 2002 to April 2007 as assistant commissioner for Abbott Implementation for the New Jersey Department of Education, where he oversaw a division that was created to better coordinate the implementation of Abbott v. Burke, the nations most prescriptive and sweeping state supreme court ruling on school finance, and improve academic achievement in the states poorest cities. From 1998 to 2002, he served as president of Citizens for Better Schools, a New Jerseybased nonprofit organization. He was a member of the New Jersey State Senate from 1994 to 1998. Prior to that, he served in the New Jersey General Assembly and held positions that included chief executive of the New Jersey Network, director of the Fund for New Jersey, a special assistant to New Jersey Governor Richard J. Hughes, special assistant to the New Jersey commissioner of education, deputy director of the White House Task Force on the Cities, and director of program development for United Progress, Inc., the anti-poverty agency for Trenton, New Jersey. MacInnes is the author of Wrong for All the Right Reasons: How White Liberals Have Been Undone by Race (A Twentieth Century Fund Book published by NYU Press, 1996), and Kids Who Pick the Wrong Parents and Other Victims of Voucher Schemes (A Twentieth Century Fund/Century Foundation white paper, 1999). MacInnes has a B.A. from Occidental College and an M.P.A. from The Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, where he also served as a visiting senior fellow from1976 to1978 and again from 1998 to 1999. He has had numerous opinion pieces published in the Newark Star-Ledger, the Record of Hackensack, the Daily Record of Morris County, and the New Jersey section of the New York Times.

]]> Agora Project http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/6 http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/6 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:05:30 PST Ambassador Earl Anthony Wayne comes to Occidental College to speak about United States Policy in Afghanistan. Ambassador Wayne is the Coordinating Director of Development Assistance & Economic Affairs in the United States Embassy in Kabul.

]]> Agora Project http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/4 http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/4 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:59:37 PST Tony Barnstone, poet, translator, and Professor of English at Whittier College, reads selections from his translations and original work

]]> Agora Project http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/3 http://scholar.oxy.edu/fall2010agora/3 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:55:31 PST Occidental students Anahid Yahjian, Julia Bleckner,Nelson Melgar, Sky Mangin, Amy McDonough and Stephi Chin share their experiences from Rwanda.

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