Approaching the Millennium: Global Changes, Local Effects

Unless otherwise noted, all Colloquia will be held at 4:00 p.m. in the Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library. A wine and cheese reception will follow each event.

Lectures not recorded, no videos available.

Fall 1996 Lecture Schedule

• Tuesday, 17 September

Baruch Brody
Professor of Philosophy, Rice University, and
Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine
The Global Regulation of Research

• Tuesday, 15 October

Three speakers:
Anthony Gorry
Vice President for Information Technology, Rice University

Werner Kelber
Turner Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University

Albert van Helden
Lynette Autrey Professor of History, Rice University

From Homer to the Internet: What Can We Learn from History about Changes in Information Technology?

• Thursday, 14 November

Neal Lane
Director, National Science Foundation
The Dream of a Common Language: Making the Science-NonScience Bridge

• Tuesday, 10 December

Benjamin Lee
Professor of Anthropology
Culture and Identity in an Age of Globalization

Spring 1997 Lecture Schedule

• Tuesday, 21 January

Stephen Klineberg
Professor of Sociology, Rice University
Globalization in the Houston Context: Facing the New Demographic and Economic Realities

• Tuesday, 18 February

Jordan Konisky
Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, Rice University
Commitment to Research and Graduate Education in a Time of Exte rnal Stress
Panel discussants: Judith Brown, James Kinsey, Moshe Vardi

• Thursday, 27 February 1997 - Bochner Lecture

8:00 p.m., Duncan Hall Auditorium, Rice University
Vartan Gregorian
President, Brown University
Is it Still Possible to be a Renaissance Man or Woman?

• Tuesday, 18 March CANCELLED

Charles Henry
Vice Provost for the Library, Rice University
"Corn: Ethnobotany, Mystical Rooms, and Copyright Law"

• Tuesday, 15 April

Kenneth J. Gergen
Gil and Frank Mustin Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College
"Technology, Self and the Moral Project"