Virtual reality is no longer just science fiction, psychologist, author and VR researcher Jeremy Bailenson said. As founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Bailenson studies the psychology of VR and how it
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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of 20-first, a gender balance consultancy firm, lectures on gender balance in the workplace Wednesday, August 1, 2018 in the Amphitheater. RILEY ROBINSON/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER It’s time to be gender bilingual — not
College isn’t working. “I believe that not only is higher education failing to do the job it claims to be doing, I believe it is woefully unprepared to do the job it needs to be
For Cathrael Kazin, the future of learning is the future of work. “There are so many discussions in the higher-ed community, even among people who are interested in reform of higher-ed, that take place without
Anyone who’s taken an Uber, hosted an Airbnb or sold an empty seat through BlaBlaCar has contributed to crowd-based capitalism, Arun Sundararajan said at the 10:45 a.m. morning lecture Monday, July 30, in the Amphitheater,
Sarah Jaffe literally wrote the book on troublemakers — well, she wrote a book, Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt. The author and journalist spoke to power, money as speech and the history of dissent movements in the
Bari Weiss, staff editor and writer with The New York Times opinion section, speaks about the dangers of identity politics during her lecture Thursday, July 26, 2018 in the Amphitheater. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO EDITOR S-word, P-word,
Shaun King, columnist for The Intercept, Edwin Lindo, social-justice scholar and advocate, and Tamika Mallory, co-president of the Women's March, lead a discussion on the ethics of dissent on Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in the
Chief Executive Officer of PEN America Suzanne Nossel lectures on "The Future of Free Speech" Tuesday, July 24, 2018 in the Amphitheater. RILEY ROBINSON/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Factories and electrical plants surrounded Niagara Falls by the
Dissent, Ralph Young argued, is central to American history. “American history has traditionally been taught emphasizing exploits of presidents, politicians, diplomats and generals,” he said. “But there is a case to be made that ordinary
Ralph Young goes against the grain. Young, a history professor at Temple University and author of Dissent: The History of an American Idea will provide a historical context of dissent at the 10:45 a.m. morning
A once-banned field in the Red State, sociology is making a comeback — and it’s helping Masha Gessen imagine a Russia, post-Vladimir Putin. At the 10:45 a.m. morning lecture on Friday, July 20, Gessen spoke
What do John F. Kennedy’s assassination, J. Edgar Hoover and the AIDS epidemic have in common? They were all influenced by Russian “active measures,” Alina Polyakova said at Thursday’s, July 19, 10:45 a.m. morning lecture in
President Boris Yeltsin left the Kremlin in 1999, leaving a vacant office and a hungry Vladimir Putin. After his landslide victory for the presidency, Putin, determined to show a unified, powerful Russia, set out to travel all
William J. Burns offered a “recovering diplomat’s” perspective on detangling the U.S.-Russia relationship at the 10:45 a.m. morning lecture Tuesday, July 17, in the Amphitheater, continuing Week Four, “Russia and the West.” Burns served as
In each generation there is a moment when Americans must stand and act — for Sen. Chris Coons, now is that moment. “We have a fight on our hands,” he said to a filled Amphitheater