Browsing by Author "Agora Project"
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2010 Ray Allen Billington Lecture by Daniel Horowitz
Agora Project (2011-04-01)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. -
Adrian Martinez on Working for Justice: Rebellious Advocacy for Environmental Justice in Los Angeles
Agora Project (2011-04-01)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 ... -
Ambassador Earl Anthony Wayne: United States Policy in Afghanistan
Agora Project (2010-02-17)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 ... -
Ask a Mexican!: Gustavo Arellano speaks at Occidental College 2010
Agora Project (2010-01-01)Gustavo Arellano, from the OC Weekly comes to Occidental College to speak about his column, Ask a Mexican. Arellano talks about the complexities of his column and reads selections from his book Ask a Mexican. -
Benjamin Cairns
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Building a Green Economy: Winona LaDuke speaks at Occidental College's First Tuesday Speaker Series 2010
Agora Project (2010-01-01)Winona LaDuke, former Vice Presidental Candidate, Native American and Environmental Activist, Rural Deveopment Economist and Founder of the Indigenous Womens Network, speaks at Occidental College on how to build a green economy. -
Christopher Scherer speaks at Occidental College
Agora Project (2010-01-01)Christopher Scherer speaks to Professor Gonzalez's Civil Rights and Civil Liberties course. -
Christopher Scherer: The Intersection Between Immigration, Human Rights, and Constitutional Law
Agora Project (2010-10-01)Christopher Scherer comes to speak at Professor Gonzalez's Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: First Amendment class. -
Daniel Chamberlain and Professor Reddy: "Social Media Uprising"
Agora Project (2011-04-01)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. -
Dungan Lecture: Peter H. Gleick
Agora Project (2011-04-01)"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 ... -
Food for Thought Series: David Griswald and Libby Evans from Sustainable Harvest Coffee Model
Agora Project (2010-04-13)As part of the ongoing Food for Thought speaker series, David Griswold and Libby Evans return to their alma mater to discuss their work at Sustainable Harvest, the Relationship Coffee Model, and the challenges facing global ... -
Food for Thought: Janet Poppendeick speaks at Occidental College 2010
Agora Project (2010-04-08)Janet Poppendieck, Professor of Sociology at CUNY-Hunter, will give a talk entitled "Free for All: Fixing School Food in America" wherein she explores the deep politics of food provision from multiple perspectives--history, ... -
Gordon MacInnes
Agora Project (2010-04-12)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 ... -
Immigration Issues and Arizona's New Law: Jack Chin and Frank Contreras
Agora Project (2010-11-09)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 ... -
Italian Philosopher Roberto Esposito
Agora Project (2010-10-01)Italian Philosopher Roberto Esposito is the author of such works as Communitas and Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy. -
Last Lecture Series: Professor Shtulman
Agora Project (2010-01-01)Professor Andrew Shtulman participates in the Last Lecture Series -
Last Lecture Series: Psychology Prof. Andrew Shtulman
Agora Project (2010-10-01)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 ... -
Last Lecture: Professor Rugg on "Simple Suggestions to Getting the Most Out of Life"
Agora Project (2011-04-01)Professor Rugg of the Kinesiology Department will give his hypothetical last lecture on "Simple Suggestions to Getting the Most Out of Life". -
Mary Gonzalez speaks on Community Organzing at Occidental College 2010
Agora Project (2010-01-01)Mary Gonzalez, California Director for the Gamaliel Foundation, comes to Occidental College to speak about community organizing. -
Mayor Villaraigosa
Agora Project (2009-12-04)Days ahead of the international climate change conference at Copenhagen, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa speaks with students about urban environmental policy and Californias climate agenda.