Approaching the Millennium: Technologies, Communities, Histories

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 1995 Lecture Schedule

• Thursday, 21 September 1995, 8:00 p.m. - BOCHNER LECTURE

[co-sponsored with the President's Lecture Series]
Grand Hall, Rice Memorial Center
Roger Penrose
Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University
"Towards a New Physical World View"

• Tuesday, 10 October 1995

Bill Martin
Professor of Sociology, Rice University
"Apocalypse Soon: the Contemporary Significance of Biblical Prophecy"

• Tuesday, 14 November 1995

David Nirenberg
Assistant Professor of History, Rice University
"From Nebuchadnezzar to Negroponte: Three millennia of millennialism"

• Tuesday, 5 December 1995

Melanie Mitchell
Director of Adaptive Computation, Santa Fe Institute
"What "Complex Systems" Approaches Can Offer to Science"

Spring 1996 Lecture Schedule

• Tuesday, 23 January 1996

David Walker
Chairman and Professor, Department of Pathology, and Director, Center for
Tropical Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
"The New Threat of Infectious Disease: Lessons from the Past"

• Thursday, 8 February 1996

Gale Stokes
Professor, Department of History, Rice University
"Doing Something about Nationalism"

• Tuesday, 20 February 1996

Edward Djerejian
Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
"U.S. Policy toward Islam and the Arc of Crisis"

• Tuesday, 19 March 1996

Richard Smalley
Norman and Gene Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics,
Rice University
"Nanotechnology and the Next Fifty Years"

• Tuesday, 16 April 1996

Jean Bethke Elshtain
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Ethics, University of Chicago
"Between Past and Future: Democracy on Trial"
Co-sponsored by Political Science Department