graduate school public lectures
December 8, 2016
Past events in the Equity & Difference series
A series of talks that expose and explain transgressions and struggles—both systematic and personal—experienced by too many in our communities today.
May 19, 2015
At Length with Regina M. Benjamin, M.D., M.B.A., 18th Surgeon General
Benjamin discusses rediscovering “the joy in being healthy,” the inevitable controversies of thinking outside the box and the origins of public health missions in America.
At Length with Adam Drewnowski
Drewnowski discusses the correlation between food, money and health, the strategies of “nutritional resilience,” and the “growing body of evidence that obesity in America is largely an economic issue.”
May 15, 2015
At Length with Sonia Nazario
Nazario discusses her fraught and illuminating journey accompanying Central American minors atop Mexican freight trains and how U.S. policy will decide the fate of these children.
March 31, 2015
At Length with Christoph Bode
Bode discusses growing up in a book-loving German anglophile family, the purpose of “difficult” novels and literature and how one should “never approach a book with too much respect.”
At Length with Eric Avila
In this conversation with Steve Scher, Avila discusses the Freeway Revolts of the 1960s, the “coded, tacit” terminology of racism today and the meaning of George Clinton’s song “Chocolate Cities.”
At Length with Mark Morris
Morris discusses his influences, how he runs the Mark Morris Dance Center as “an open buffet of dancing and music,” how all music “doesn’t automatically make you want dance to it” and more.
March 7, 2015
At Length with Marc Rotenberg
Rotenberg discusses the balancing privacy and practicality, contemplating the constitution in times of fear and unrest and the “incredibly creepy” picture emerging through violations of data privacy.
February 27, 2015
At Length with Steve Scher
At Length host Steve Scher speaks with some of the world’s leading minds about a variety of topics and issues, ranging from politics, science, art, culture and beyond.
