Agora Spring 2011 Events Copyright (c) 2013 Occidental College All rights reserved. http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora Recent documents in Agora Spring 2011 Events en-us Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:02:14 PST 3600 Daniel Chamberlain and Professor Reddy: "Social Media Uprising" http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora/8 http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora/8 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:16:27 PDT Daniel Chamberlain, from the Center for Digital Learning and Research, and Professor Reddy, from the Diplomacy in World Affairs department, discuss the changes in social media.

]]> Agora Project Sterling Award Lectures: Professor Amy Lyford and Professor Dennis Eggleston http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora/7 http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora/7 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:13:39 PDT Professor Amy Lyford, AHVA, will give a lecture entitled "Negotiating Race and Nation: Isamu Noguchi's Modernism, 1930-1950". Professor Dennis Eggleston, Physics, will give a lecture entitled "Bottling the Sun: Experiments on Plasma Confinement".

]]> Agora Project Last Lecture: Professor Rugg on "Simple Suggestions to Getting the Most Out of Life" http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora/6 http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora/6 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:09:14 PDT Professor Rugg of the Kinesiology Department will give his hypothetical last lecture on "Simple Suggestions to Getting the Most Out of Life".

]]> Agora Project Adrian Martinez on Working for Justice: Rebellious Advocacy for Environmental Justice in Los Angeles http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora/5 http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora/5 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:09:12 PDT Adrian Martinez is an Attorney with the National Resources Defense Council in Santa Monica. He provides legal advice to and advocacy on behalf of local campaigns, state and federal law and policy regarding environmental justice issues, air quality, transportation, and health.

]]> Agora Project Thomas Weiss: "Why U.N. Ideas and Goals Matter: The Millennium Development Goals? http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora/4 http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora/4 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:09:10 PDT Thomas Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where he is co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project. He was previously a Professor at Brown University's Watson Center and Brown's Dean for Faculty. He is also the former President (2008-9) of the International Studies Association.

]]> Agora Project 2010 Ray Allen Billington Lecture by Daniel Horowitz http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora/3 http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora/3 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:09:09 PDT 2011 Ray Allen Billington Lecture Learning from Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: Architecture of Four Ecologies and Danice Scott Brown/Robert Venturi, Learning from Las Vegas.

]]> Agora Project Dungan Lecture: Peter H. Gleick http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora/2 http://scholar.oxy.edu/spring2011agora/2 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:09:07 PDT "Our 21st Centurty Water Challenge: From Bottled Water to Climate Change". Peter Gleick knows drinking water and climate change. He is a world renowned researcher and water expert and a MacArthur Foundation genius. So if Gleick drinks water from the tap, why don't the rest of us? Why is bottled water an environmental justice issue? How does water relate to climate change?

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