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.

Wednesday, 22 July, 2009

Please explore the Aurora Forum archive until we return with new programs.

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Thanks for your interest.

Thursday, 4 June, 2009

What Matters
See the website for What Matters, the book that will be featured in our July 9 conversation in Annenberg Auditorium.

Wednesday, 13 May, 2009

For Water
In anticipation of our “Gratitude and Poetry for Water” conversation on May 21, take a look at Jenna Davis’ list of water and sanitation resources by going here.

Thursday, 2 April, 2009

Art in the Age of Obama
I had the good fortune to attend Peter Sellars' "Art in the Age of Obama" lecture at  Montalvo Arts Center last month. This excellent presentation is now available online, and I urge you to view it. Click here and scroll to "Agency: Peter Sellars"(the interview and lecture are two separate files).

Monday, 23 February, 2009
Reading for "Responsible Freedom"
In anticipation of our conversation on Thursday, March 5, we recommend you read the following essays by our guests:  Martha Nussbaum’s “Education for Profit, Education for Freedom” (Seymour Fox Memorial Lecture at Hebrew University, 2007) and Andrew Delbanco’s “The College Idea” (Lapham’s Quarterly I/4 [Fall 2008]).

Friday, 20 February, 2009

Parker Palmer on PBS
Parker Palmer, our guest tomorrow, is featured on tonight's installment of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.  You can watch or read the interview by clicking here.

Monday, 2 February, 2009
In anticipation of our 19 February program, “Tibet: Where Continents and Cultures Collide,” please visit China Green, a website with resources on environmental issues prepared by the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations.

Tuesday, 27 January, 2009
Creative Couples
When we think of creative couples, we may remember Marie and Pierre Curie, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Edward and Charis Weston, Lou Harrison and Bill Colvig, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt. Of course there are countless other, less celebrated couples whose names also stimulate thinking about ways in which partnership may influence human flourishing and creative work. In this series, we are interested in better understanding how creative insights arise from risk taking and the open-ended possibilities that are nurtured by intimacy. The series begins on January 29 with Irvin and Marilyn Yalom.

Tuesday, 13 January, 2009

Loyalty: Virtue or Vice?
In anticipation of the next conversation in our Education for Citizenship series, we urge you to read Glenn Loury's "The Call of the Tribe" in the December 2008 Boston Review. Professor Loury will be in conversation with Richard Ford of the Law School who discusses his latest book, The Race Card, on FORA.tv.  Eamonn Callan will moderate this conversation at Kresge Auditorium on January 21.  We look forward to seeing you there.