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NYU 2012 Commencement--Student Speaker--Alexis Leigh Cohen

Title: NYU 2012 Commencement--Student Speaker--Alexis Leigh Cohen
Runtime: 6:40
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Alexis Leigh Cohen who received a Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree and a Master of Public Health Degree, address her fellow graduates -- the NYU Class of 2012!

NYU's 180th Commencement Exercises were held Wednesday morning, May 16, 2012, at Yankee Stadium. President John Sexton and Board of Trustees Chairman Martin Lipton presided over the event, which presented honorary degrees to Sonia Sotomayor - Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court; David Brooks, columnist for the New York Times; Patrick Desbois, President, Yahad-In Unum; and Charles Weissmann, Professor and Chairman, Department of Infectology, The Scripps Research Institute.

The Arab Revolts: A Fourth Wave or an Ebbing Tide?

Title: The Arab Revolts: A Fourth Wave or an Ebbing Tide?
Runtime: 1:07:36
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Join the John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress and the Foreign Policy Association for the annual John B. Hurford Memorial Lecture. This year Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy, will present the lecture entitled: "The Arab Revolts: A Fourth Wave or an Ebbing Tide?"

The Moral Life of Babies and Why It Matters

Title: The Moral Life of Babies and Why It Matters
Runtime: 56:05
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Paul Bloom, Brooks & Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Science, Yale University
Abstract: This talk will explore three case-studies of moral psychology: (1) Physical contact, such as helping, hindering, and hitting; (2) Fair and unfair distribution of resources; and (3) Violations of purity, with special focus on sexual behavior. I will review some ongoing experimental work with babies and young children that bears on the emergence of moral intuitions and motivations in these domains, and I will argue that these domains show strikingly different patterns of development. I end with an argument that developmental moral psychology is relevant to problems of normative ethics, though in a rather indirect way.

"The Neurobiology of Virtue" and "Enhancing Criminal Brains?"

Title: "The Neurobiology of Virtue" and "Enhancing Criminal Brains?"
Runtime: 49:53
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: William Casebeer, Program Manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Fabrice Jotterand, Assistant Professor, Clinical Sciences & Psychiatry, Southwestern Medical Center, University of Texas

Beyond Point-And-Shoot Morality: Why Cognitive (Neuro)Science Matters for Ethics

Title: Beyond Point-And-Shoot Morality: Why Cognitive (Neuro)Science Matters for Ethics
Runtime: 1:04:53
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Joshua Greene, John & Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Abstract: Does the "is" is of empirical moral psychology have implications for the "ought" of normative ethics? I'll argue that it does. One cannot deduce moral truths form scientific truths, but cognitive science, including cognitive neuroscience, may nevertheless influence moral thinking in profound ways. First, I'll review evidence for the dual-process theory of moral judgment, according to which characteristically deontological judgments tend to be driven by automatic emotional responses while characteristically consequentialist judgments tend to be driven by controlled cognitive processes. I'll then consider the respective functions of automatic and controlled processes. Automatic processes are like the point-and-shoot settings on a camera, efficient but inflexible. Controlled processes are like a camera's manual mode, inefficient but flexible. Putting the...

Welcoming: The Significance of Neuroscience for Morality: Lessons from a Decade of Research

Title: Welcoming: The Significance of Neuroscience for Morality: Lessons from a Decade of Research
Runtime: 7:39
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Organized by the NYU Center for Bioethics in collaboration with the Duke Kenan Institute for Ethics with generous support from the NYU Graduate School for Arts & Science and the NYU Humanities Initiative.
It has been a decade since the first brain imaging studies of moral judgments by Joshua Greene, Jorge Moll and their colleagues were reported. During this time, there have been rich philosophical and scientific discussions regarding a) whether brain imaging data can tell us anything about moral judgments, and b) what they do tell us if they can tell us something about moral judgments. In this workshop, we aim to bring leading philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists in this area together to examine these issues and to explore the future directions of this research.

On the Permissibility of Creating Enhanced People

Title: On the Permissibility of Creating Enhanced People
Runtime: 38:07
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Ingmar Persson, Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg; Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
Abstract: In Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement (OUP, forthcoming 2012) Julian Savulescu and I argue that in order to solve the greatest moral problems of the present time, like anthropogenic climate and environmental deterioration and global inequality, it is necessary to morally enhance human beings, not only by traditional means but also, if possible, by biomedical means. Some, like John Harris, have replied that moral enhancement by biomedical means would undercut our freedom and, so, would not really increase our moral value. I believe that this objection is mistaken, that these means would undercut neither our freedom nor our rationality. However, what I shall mainly discuss in my presentation is a reply which grants that this is so, that genuine moral enhancement could be produced by biomedical means...

Title: Moral Enhancement and the Law
Runtime: 23:53
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Maxwell Mehlman, Professor of Bioethics & Law, Case Western Reserve University
Abstract: The invention of a drug that enhanced moral judgment would raise a number of legal issues. What should the impact be of taking the drug, or refusing or being unable to take it, on criminal and civil liability? Could taking it be a condition of parole? How safe would such a drug have to be to be approved by the FDA, and how would the agency weigh risks and benefits? Under current law, to what extent could the government require people to take it? Could parents be required to give it to their children? If not, should the law be changed? Would the drug be covered under third party health insurance programs, including the Obama health reform plan, and if not, should it be? Are there certain types of persons who should not take it, such as soldiers, in whom it might interfere with the duty to follow lawful orders? How should the availability of the drug affect international law?

Title: Are Intuitions Heuristics?
Runtime: 56:05
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: S. Matthew Liao, Associate Director, Center for Bioethics; Clinical Associate Professor of Bioethics; Affiliated Professor of Philosophy, New York University.
Abstract: Many psychologists and philosophers are attracted to the idea that intuitions are heuristics, a kind of mental short-cut or rule of thumb. As a result, many think that the issue of whether intuitions are reliable is just the issue of whether heuristics are reliable. In this paper, I argue that there are reasons to suspect that intuitions are heuristics. I consider the implication of this point for the debate concerning the reliability of intuitions and for those who hold some kind of dual-process model of moral judgment.

Morphing Morals: Neurochemical Modulation of Moral Judgment and Behavior

Title: Morphing Morals: Neurochemical Modulation of Moral Judgment and Behavior
Runtime: 51:00
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Molly Crockett, Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory for Social & Neural Systems Research,
Department of Economics, University of Zurich
Abstract: Neuroscientists are now discovering how hormones and brain chemicals shape social behavior, opening potential avenues for pharmacological manipulation of ethical values. In this talk, I will present an overview of recent studies showing how altering brain chemistry can change moral judgment and behavior. These findings raise new questions about the anatomy of the moral mind, and suggest directions for future research in both neurobiology and practical ethics.

The Representation of Reinforcement Values in Care-Based Morality

Title: The Representation of Reinforcement Values in Care-Based Morality
Runtime: 57:15
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: James Blair, Chief of the Unit on Affective Cognitive Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
Abstract: This talk will concentrate on two brain areas critical for the development of care-based morality (social rules covering harm to others). The role of the amygdala in stimulus-reinforcement learning will be considered, particularly when the reinforcement is social (the fear, sadness and pain of others). The role of orbital frontal cortex in the representation of value, critical for decision making (both care-based moral and non-moral) will also be considered. Data showing dysfunction in both of these systems and these functions and their interaction in individuals with psychopathic traits will be presented and the implications of these data for care-based (and other forms of) morality will be considered.

Session IV: Ramifications for Law, National Security & Other Institutions

Title: Session IV: Ramifications for Law, National Security & Other Institutions
Runtime: 1:27:06
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Should the research on moral psychology be interpreted as suggesting new approaches for improving, or perhaps enhancing, moral intuitions, attitudes, judgments, and behavior or for reforming social institutions? Can we create more effective educational tools for improving moral development? For the last century psychiatry has attempted to medicalize moral failings - lack of self-control, addiction, anger, impatience, fear. But what of engineering ourselves to higher states of virtue? If the enhancement of morality is possible, which virtues or cognitive capabilities will it be safe to enhance and how? What might be the unanticipated side effects of attempts to enhance moral behavior?

Title: Session II: General - Q&A
Runtime: 1:20:28
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Should the research on moral psychology be interpreted as suggesting new approaches for improving, or perhaps enhancing, moral intuitions, attitudes, judgments, and behavior or for reforming social institutions? Can we create more effective educational tools for improving moral development? For the last century psychiatry has attempted to medicalize moral failings - lack of self-control, addiction, anger, impatience, fear. But what of engineering ourselves to higher states of virtue? If the enhancement of morality is possible, which virtues or cognitive capabilities will it be safe to enhance and how? What might be the unanticipated side effects of attempts to enhance moral behavior?

Title: Session II: General - Q&A
Runtime: 14:19
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Should the research on moral psychology be interpreted as suggesting new approaches for improving, or perhaps enhancing, moral intuitions, attitudes, judgments, and behavior or for reforming social institutions? Can we create more effective educational tools for improving moral development? For the last century psychiatry has attempted to medicalize moral failings - lack of self-control, addiction, anger, impatience, fear. But what of engineering ourselves to higher states of virtue? If the enhancement of morality is possible, which virtues or cognitive capabilities will it be safe to enhance and how? What might be the unanticipated side effects of attempts to enhance moral behavior?

Title: Session I: General
Runtime: 1:29:57
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Should the research on moral psychology be interpreted as suggesting new approaches for improving, or perhaps enhancing, moral intuitions, attitudes, judgments, and behavior or for reforming social institutions? Can we create more effective educational tools for improving moral development? For the last century psychiatry has attempted to medicalize moral failings - lack of self-control, addiction, anger, impatience, fear. But what of engineering ourselves to higher states of virtue? If the enhancement of morality is possible, which virtues or cognitive capabilities will it be safe to enhance and how? What might be the unanticipated side effects of attempts to enhance moral behavior?

Title: Is There One Moral Brain?
Runtime: 1:01:35
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics, Department of Philosophy
and the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
Abstract: Different kinds of moral dilemmas produce activity in different parts of the brain, so there
is no single neural network behind all moral judgments. This paper will survey the growing
evidence for this claim and its implications for philosophy and for method in moral neuroscience.

Feeling Good About Feeling Bad: Moral Aliefs and Moral Dilemmas

Title: Feeling Good About Feeling Bad: Moral Aliefs and Moral Dilemmas
Runtime: 1:07:12
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Tamar Gendler, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
Abstract: In some cases, moral behavior seem to be fully commendable (only) when the subject
performs it wholeheartedly, without conflict between or among counter- or pro-moral beliefs and
counter- or pro-moral aliefs. But in others, (perhaps those where moral demands at different levels
pull in different directions) moral behavior seems to be fully commendable (only) when the subject
experiences a conflict between pro-moral beliefs and pro-moral aliefs where the latter -- generally
pro-social -- response is morally overridden in this (exceptional) circumstance. In still others, moral
behavior seems to be fully commendable when it occurs as a result of the agent's overcoming
certain counter-moral aliefs or beliefs. What sorts of systematic patterns do these cases exhibit, and
how do they connect to Tetlock's work on tragic and taboo tradeoffs, Williams' work on "one

Title: Session III: Medicine
Runtime: 1:06:08
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Session Chair: Wendell Wallach, Scholar & Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University

Title: When the Mind Matters for Morality
Runtime: 1:05:04
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Liane Young, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Boston College
Abstract: Mental state reasoning is critical for moral cognition, allowing us to distinguish, for
example, murder from manslaughter. I will present neural evidence for distinct cognitive
components of mental state reasoning for moral judgment, and investigate differences in mental
state reasoning for distinct moral domains, i.e. harm versus purity, for self versus other, and for
groups versus individuals. I will discuss these findings in the context of the broader question of why
the mind matters for morality.

Title: Making Patient-Centered Care a Reality
Runtime: 1:35:22
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: New York University College of Nursing's Dean Judi Haber along with the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation will host a panel presentation and discussion on "Making Patient Centered Care a Reality: A Nursing Perspective."

Patient-centered care is a key concept in the debate over how best to reshape our health system. It holds the promise of realigning care around the needs of patients and of improving the quality of care while reducing costs. Most health professionals agree that it represents a needed change. Why, then, is patient-centered care more rhetoric than reality? And what can nurses do to turn things around?

"Making Patient-Centered Care a Reality: A Nursing Perspective", brings together two nationally recognized nurse leaders, Amy Berman and Kimberly Glassman, to discuss the challenges, benefits and urgency of introducing patient- and family-centered care into practice. Drawing on their personal and professional reflections, the discussion will examin...

Title: NYU 2012 President's Service Award
Runtime: 56:22
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: The purpose of the President's Service Award is to recognize the distinguished achievements of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students and student organizations for their promotion of learning, leadership, and quality of student life at New York University.

President's Service Awards are given to students or student organizations that have had an extraordinary and positive impact on the University community, including achievements within schools and departments, the University at large, local neighborhoods, and NYU's presence in the world.

Center for Urban Science and Progress Press Conference

Title: Center for Urban Science and Progress Press Conference
Runtime: 57:08
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: On April 23, 2012, Mayor Bloomberg announced the launch of the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), an applied science research institute that is being created by New York University and NYU-Poly with a consortium of world-class universities and the foremost international tech companies to address the needs of cities.

Session II: Keynote Address: Finding Answers in the Global Market

Title: Session II: Keynote Address: Finding Answers in the Global Market
Runtime: 55:36
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Session II: Keynote Address: Finding Answers in the Global Market with Andrew Rugasira, Founder and Chairman, Good African Coffee, Uganda

Natural Science II: Genomes and Diversity - Genomics

Title: Natural Science II: Genomes and Diversity - Genomics
Runtime: 39:06
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Mark Siegal

Session I: Development Goals, Evaluation, and Learning from Projects in Africa

Title: Session I: Development Goals, Evaluation, and Learning from Projects in Africa
Runtime: 1:37:08
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Session I: Development Goals, Evaluation, and Learning from Projects in Africa, with presentations from Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development, Stewart Paperin, Open Society Foundations, and Bernadette Wanjala, Tilburg
University Development Research Institute, followed by debate and audience Q&A.

Title: Teaching with Technology Conference
Runtime: 36:32
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Keynote Address by Clay Shirky
"Massively Collaborative: Teaching and Research in a Networked Age"

The NYU Center for Teaching Excellence is pleased to announce Teaching with Technology, a full-day conference open to faculty and graduate students featuring presentations by current NYU faculty on their experiences incorporating technology into their classrooms, as well as information on basic and advanced learning technologies.

Welcome and Introductory Remarks from DRI

Title: Welcome and Introductory Remarks from DRI
Runtime: 48:49
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Welcome by NYU Provost David McLaughlin and Introductory Remarks from DRI, including "Technology Answers and Development Possibilities" by NYU Economics Professor Yaw Nyarko, and "Smart Scientific Solutions vs Dumb Solution-Finding Systems" by NYU Economics Professor William Easterly

The Wisdom of the Humanities: Building Meaningful Lives and Successful Careers

Title: The Wisdom of the Humanities: Building Meaningful Lives and Successful Careers
Runtime: 1:32:51
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A round table discussion featuring five individuals describing diverse paths they have taken since majoring in the humanities as undergraduates. This event will offer practical and personal advice on developing your interests and skills in the humanities to achieve success, both within and beyond the workplace. Featuring:

Alexa Allen is a 2011 graduate of NYU's Liberal Studies program and currently works for Citigroup in New York.
Laura Brown is Executive Vice President of ITHAKA, an organization dedicated to advancing scholarly communication, as well as the Managing Director of the digital archive JSTOR. Brown previously served as the president of Oxford University Press, USA.
Barak Goodman is co-founder of Ark Media and is the principal writer/producer/director for the company. His award winning documentary films have appeared on PBS and other networks.
Matt Gornick currently works as the Policy Assistant Director for the National Coalition for Homeless...

Ancient Israel: Ancient Hebrew Psychology

Title: Ancient Israel: Ancient Hebrew Psychology
Runtime: 56:47
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: For course related materials please visit http://www.nyu.edu/academics/open-education/coursesnew/cultures-contexts-ancient-israel.html

NYU Panel Discussion: Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It" Women's Stories Come to Life, April 3, 2012

Title: NYU Panel Discussion: Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It" Women's Stories Come to Life, April 3, 2012
Runtime: 1:14:06
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A panel discussion featuring two real "Rosies," (Esther Horne and Jerre Kalbas), the project's executive producer (Elizabeth Hemmerdinger), the filmmakers (Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelley), and Ruth Milkman, professor of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and Academic Director, Joseph F. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at the Tamiment Library, tenth floor, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, (at LaGuardia Place).

Ancient Israel: We Need a Bible, Don't We? The Work of the Early Jewish Community

Title: Ancient Israel: We Need a Bible, Don't We? The Work of the Early Jewish Community
Runtime: 1:05:40
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: For course related materials please visit http://www.nyu.edu/academics/open-education/coursesnew/cultures-contexts-ancient-israel.html

Title: Ancient Israel: When You Talk About Sex
Runtime: 1:10:19
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: For course related materials please visit http://www.nyu.edu/academics/open-education/coursesnew/cultures-contexts-ancient-israel.html

Ancient Israel: Away from Home: Jewish Refugees and Resettlement

Title: Ancient Israel: Away from Home: Jewish Refugees and Resettlement
Runtime: 1:08:44
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: For course related materials please visit http://www.nyu.edu/academics/open-education/coursesnew/cultures-contexts-ancient-israel.html

Ancient Israel: A World with One Power: The Impact of Empire

Title: Ancient Israel: A World with One Power: The Impact of Empire
Runtime: 40:31
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: For course related materials please visit http://www.nyu.edu/academics/open-education/coursesnew/cultures-contexts-ancient-israel.html

Title: Ancient Israel: Judah's Bible
Runtime: 44:59
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: For course related materials please visit http://www.nyu.edu/academics/open-education/coursesnew/cultures-contexts-ancient-israel.html

Ancient Israel: Empires, in the Biblical Context

Title: Ancient Israel: Empires, in the Biblical Context
Runtime: 1:09:47
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: For course related materials please visit http://www.nyu.edu/academics/open-education/coursesnew/cultures-contexts-ancient-israel.html

Ancient Israel - Yellow Journalism and Purple Prose: Writing Like a Prophet

Title: Ancient Israel - Yellow Journalism and Purple Prose: Writing Like a Prophet
Runtime: 57:25
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: For course related materials please visit http://www.nyu.edu/academics/open-education/coursesnew/cultures-contexts-ancient-israel.html

Ancient Israel: Judah the Ideal and the End of Judah

Title: Ancient Israel: Judah the Ideal and the End of Judah
Runtime: 45:42
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: For course related materials please visit http://www.nyu.edu/academics/open-education/coursesnew/cultures-contexts-ancient-israel.html

Title: MacArthur Fellows Award Ceremony 2011
Runtime: 1:16:16
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: YU Steinhardt's Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions honored two MacArthur "Genius" Fellows: Music Education Alumnus and faculty Francisco J. Núñez and current Jazz Studies Professor Dafnis Prieto on February 6 at the Frederick Loewe Theatre. Both were interviewed by John Schaefer from WNYC. Núñez conducted the NYC Young People's Chorus and Prieto performed an improvised drum solo.

The MacArthur Fellows receive $500,000 grants payed out over five years and with no restrictions to give them the freedom to continue their scholarly or artistic work.

About Dafnis Prieto (pictured top left, photo by Henry Lopez)

From Cuba, his arrival in the U.S. has been compared by to that of an asteroid hitting New York. Indeed, within a short period of time Dafnis Prieto's revolutionary drumming techniques had a powerful impact on the Latin and Jazz music scene, locally and internationally.

Various awards include "2011 MacArthur Fell...

Constitution Day 2011 with Jerry Nadler and Prof. Burt Neuborne

Title: Constitution Day 2011 with Jerry Nadler and Prof. Burt Neuborne
Runtime: 58:07
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: U.S. Representative Jerry Nadler represents the Eighth Congressional District of New York, which includes much of the West Side of Manhattan (including NYU), the Financial District, as well as a number of diverse neighborhoods in southwestern Brooklyn. He began his political career in 1976 in the New York State Assembly, where he served for 16 years. In 1992, following the death of Congressman Ted Weiss, Nadler was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election and has served in Congress ever since. He was re-elected to his 10th full term in 2010.

Professor Burt Neuborne is the Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties and founding Legal Director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School. For 45 years, he has been one of the nation's foremost civil liberties lawyers, serving as National Legal Director of the ACLU from 1981 to 1986, Special Counsel to the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund from 1990 to 1996, and was a member of the New Yor...

NYU Students Volunteering in the Community

Title: NYU Students Volunteering in the Community
Runtime: 3:51
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Students involve themselves in community service through NYU's civic engagement and volunteer programs.

Title: Social Media
Runtime: 47:23
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Panel Discussion on Social Media -- We all have experienced how fast the word can travel via the internet. Social media has become one of the most powerful tools in the political modern era. This panel explores how the vast sharing of ideas and information can be good, but also dangerous to a democratic state, an how it can be used more intellengently.

Nathan Daschle, Founder and CEO, Ruck.us -- Moderator
Kahlil Byrd, CEO, Americans Elect
Michael Bassik, US Digital Practice Chair, Burson-Marsteller
Andrew Rasiej, Founder, Personal Democracy Forum

Title: Money Politics
Runtime: 1:01:48
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Money coming from special interest groups has long had a strong presence in the halls of Washington, and is arguably the single biggest threat to a functioning democracy. This panel discusses ways in which we can limit the influence of money in politics and create a more transparent system of campaign financing.

Nick Mitchell, Vice President, Americans for Campaign Reform -- Moderator
Charles Kolb - President, The Committee for Economic Development
Nick Nyhart - President, Public Campaign
John Rauh - Chair, Americans for Campaign Reform
Buddy Roemer -- Former Governor of Louisiana, GOP Presidential Candidate

Title: No Labels
Runtime: 27:06
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: No Labels -- No Labels is dedicated to making Congress work. With over 460,000 members, this organization is working to bring Republicans, Democrats and Independents, alike, together to focus on issues rather than party labels.

Mickey Edwards: Reforming Congress from the Inside Out

Title: Mickey Edwards: Reforming Congress from the Inside Out
Runtime: 45:12
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Former Congressman, Mickey Edwards, discusses one of the most effective ways to correct the current direction of our political dialogue, both in Congress and around the country. He points outs out and illustrates little known rules and procedures used by members, which keep legislation from passing through Congress. As a former Republican Congressman and author, Mickey delivers keen insights on how we might fix the state of Congress.

Title: Anne Marie Slaughter
Runtime: 50:20
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Role of Citizens and Citizenship Values in Reviving Our Democracy.
Dr. Slaughter delivered the keynote address at the United Citizens event, sponsored by the John Brademas Center at NYU. Dr. Slaughter is a university professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. She served as the Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State. Dr. Slaughter is a frequent contributor to both mainstream and new media, publishing op-ed pieces in major newspapers, magazines and blogs around the world. She regularly appears on CNN, BBC, NPR and PBS for her insights and commentary on American politics. Author and editor of several books, including: A New World Order and The Idea that is America: Keeping Faith with our Values in a Dangerous World, Dr. Slaughter is currently teaching on National Security Policy and remains a consultant for the State Department.

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Runtime: 19:08
Date posted: 15 years ago
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Title: Common Cause
Runtime: 7:07
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Common Cause -- With over 400,000 members, Common Cause is a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization, which is dedicated to restoring the core American values of our democracy. They work to empower ordinary people to make their voices heard in the political process.

Harvesting the Roots of Today's Farming and Artisan Cookery through Oral History

Title: Harvesting the Roots of Today's Farming and Artisan Cookery through Oral History
Runtime: 1:08:57
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Ben Flanner, Urban Farmer

Laena McCarthy, Owner, Anarchy in a Jar

Judy Weinraub, Journalist, Oral Historian

Will Wootton, President of Sterling College

Moderated by Food & Restaurant Consultant Clark Wolf

Title: What Comes Next?
Runtime: 1:58:55
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Since circa 1980, New York City has lost untold numbers of artists to AIDS. Bern Boyle (1951-1992), Marc Lida (1957-1992), Mark Morrisroe (1959-1989), Andreas Senser (1942-1989), and David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) are among them. The popular discourse on HIV/AIDS remains unresolved. The stigma is still very much alive and, while pushed underground, HIV-phobia is resurfacing. Discussions surrounding the censorship of David Wojnarowicz's work by the National Portrait Gallery have drawn our history nearer in recent months.

Visual AIDS and the Fales Library present a symposium considering these artists' responses to living with, and dying from complications due to AIDS. What is the role of those that survive them: the witness, the archivist, the estate, the presenter? How does the foreknowledge of impending death affect the artist's oeuvre, in practice, and what are the conversations and relationships that need to occur to guide the artist's legacy forward?

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