timely talks at Stanford

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: August 20, 2004 1:48:34 PM EDT
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These are part of Aurora Forum, http://auroraforum.stanford.edu

These talks are free although sometimes Aurora Forum charges.

Democracy & Dissent: An Evening with Lewis Lapham
Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:30 pm Kresge Auditorium
Come hear Harper's Magazine editor Lewis Lapham and Professor Pam Karlan
of Stanford Law School discuss growing limitations on our capacity for
meaningful dissent with a government and media increasingly beholden to
our country's wealthy few.  Lewis Lapham, Harper's Magazine editor, 
writes
about the stifling of the American public's capacity for meaningful
dissent in Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and Stifling of
Democracy.  Pam Karlan, Stanford Law professor and winner of the John
Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching, has written on Civil
Rights and law and democracy.

Democracy Matters: An Address by Cornel West
Thursday, September 30, 2004 7:30 pm Memorial Auditorium (note location
change)
In his new book, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against 
Imperialism,
Princeton Professor Cornel West offers an analysis of American 
democratic
ideals in a brilliant and deeply moving call for the revival of our 
better
nature.  Cornel West's, passionate oratory and deep grasp of a multitude
of subject matter (from hiphop culture to a treatment on Nihilism and
Nietzsche) has rendered him one of the most sought after lecturers in 
the
country. West's best-selling book Race Matters (1993), which has sold
400,000 copies, changed the course of America's dialogue on race, 
justice,
and democracy.

Post-Election Town Hall Meeting: Hosted by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
Thursday, November 4, 2004 7:30 pm Kresge Auditorium
Join Amy Goodman host of Democracy Now!, and a panel of Stanford 
scholars
for an open discussion of the November 2 presidential election. 
Goodman, a
graduate of Harvard University who lives in New York, calls herself an
independent journalist searching for the unfiltered truth. Her one-hour
show, Democracy Now, is produced by Pacifica Radio, a politically
progressive public radio network that describes itself as "an 
independent
community voice for peace and justice."

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