Speakers

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Steven Cassedy                        

Steven Cassedy - Professor of Literature

Moderator

 

 

 

 

                                                                                

Margaret Schoeninger                                

  Margaret J. Schoeninger - Professor of Anthropology

"How Food Fueled Human Origins"

                                    

 

 

 

William Propp                            

  William H.C. Propp - Professor of History

"In His Image and Likeness: Being Human in Ancient Israel"

                                     

                                 

                                                                             

 

Matthew Herbst                     

  Matthew T. Herbst - Director of the Making of the Modern World

"Desire, Temptation, and Spiritual Struggle: Historical Christian Perspectives on Being Human"

 

 

 

                                        

Suzanne Cahill           

  Suzanne Cahill - Adjunct Professor of History

"Suffering, Enlightenment, and Immortality: Chinese Buddhists and Daoists on the Human Condition"

 

 

 

 

Hasan Kayali                 

Hasan Kayali - Professor of History

"The Divine and the Human in Islamic Tradition: A Historical Perspective"

 

 

 

 

 

Steve Kay                            

  Steve Kay - Dean of the Division of Biological Sciences

"Humanity's Greatest Challenge - Food, Fuel and the Future"

 

 

 

 

 

Seth Lerer                    

   Seth Lerer - Dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities

 "The Verve: How We Became Modern"

                  

                      

                      

                                      

Terrence Sejnowski                     

  Terrence Sejnowski - Francis Crick Professor of Biology, Salk Institute

"What Makes the Human Brain Human"

 

 

 

 

Pamela Radcliff            

    Pamela Radcliff - Professor of History

"Political Perspectives on Being Human in the 20th Century: Fascism, Communism, and Democracy"