National Pride, National Shame

Angela Davis, Richard Rorty and Gordon Wood with Kathleen Sullivan

Monday, January 13, 2003 | 7:30 – 9:00 | Kresge Auditorium | Free and Open to All

What gives us pride in our country? What gives us cause for shame? If we have gone wrong somewhere, how can we get back on track?

ANGELA DAVIS
Angela Davis, internationally known human rights advocate, is Professor of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz.

RICHARD RORTY
Richard Rorty, regarded by many as the most interesting philosopher in the world today, is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford.

GORDON WOOD
Gordon Wood, who received the Pulitzer Prize for The Radicalism of the American Revolution, is Professor of American History at Brown University.

KATHLEEN SULLIVAN (moderator)
Kathleen Sullivan is a premier scholar of the American Constitution and Dean of Stanford Law School.

Related Themes: , ,

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.

Aurora Forum Updates!
Sign up today!

In The Spotlight