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A Post-Election Town Hall Meeting

Larry Diamond, David Dill and John McManus with Amy Goodman

Thursday, November 4, 2004 | 7:30 – 9:00 | Kresge Auditorium | Free and Open to All

Please join our post-election Town Hall Meeting. We begin with forty-five minutes of on-stage conversation between Amy Goodman, Larry Diamond, David Dill and John McManus before opening up the microphones for audience questions and comments.
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Is News Journalism Under Siege?
A Conversation with the Editors of Newsweek and Time

Mark Whitaker and Jim Kelly with Richard Stolley

Sunday, July 17, 2005 | 8:00 - 9:30pm | Kresge Auditorium | Free and Open to All

In this conversation with the editors of Newsweek and Time, we think about democratic ideals in the age of consolidated corporate media by exploring some fundamental shifts in the reporting of news: the switch from analytical, fact-based coverage to fair and balanced reporting; the explosive growth of blogs in number and influence and their effect on traditional news journalism; and the re-labeling of mainstream media as liberal.
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IRAQ: REFRAME (4): What We Don't Know about America in Iraq
An Evening with Dahr Jamail

Dahr Jamail with Mark Gonnerman

Monday, February 4, 2008 | 7:30 – 9:00 | Kresge Auditorium | Free and Open to All

In this fourth installment in the IRAQ: REFRAME series with Montalvo Arts Center, we enter into conversation with Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist who went to Iraq in 2003 and embedded himself with Iraqi people. His reports have been published in The Nation, The Guardian, and The Independent. On radio as well as television, he has reported for the BBC, Democracy Now! and numerous other stations around the globe. His writings have recently been collected and published in book form as Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.
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Director's Notes

Post by Mark Gonnerman

Thursday, 12 November, 2009

New Art+Invention Speaker Series
The Aurora Forum is pleased to join with Stanford Lively Arts and the Stanford Institute on Creativity and the Arts to present a series of conversations on "Art+Invention" with artists who are in residence or visiting the Stanford Campus. Our guests in this series are people who contribute to and illuminate various cultures, expand awareness through new technologies, and probe philosophical questions that are at the heart of humanistic inquiry. This will be fun! Click here for an overview of this exciting new venture.

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