Tag Archives: Cultural Freedom

Gabrielle Walker with Chris Williams, Talk, 23 March 2016 – Video

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 23, 2016.

Gabrielle Walker is an expert on climate change and the energy industry. She holds a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and has taught at Cambridge and Princeton Universities. She is the author of four books, most recently, Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent and the best-selling The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming (co-written with David King).

She is currently Chief Scientist at Xynteo, an advisory firm that seeks to enable businesses to grow in a manner which is responsive to the resource, climate, and demographic challenges of the 21st century.

In this event, Walker talked about climate change, action, and sustainability.
This event was part of the In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom lecture series.

In this episode, she is introduced by Chris Williams and then gave a talk. The companion Conversation episode may be found here.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also listen to the audio recording of this event there.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

Gabrielle Walker with Chris Williams, 23 March 2016 – Audio

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 23, 2016.

photo of Gabrielle Walker with Chris Williams 23 March 2016

Gabrielle Walker is an expert on climate change and the energy industry. She holds a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and has taught at Cambridge and Princeton Universities. She is the author of four books, most recently, Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent and the best-selling The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming (co-written with David King).

She is currently Chief Scientist at Xynteo, an advisory firm that seeks to enable businesses to grow in a manner which is responsive to the resource, climate, and demographic challenges of the 21st century.

In this event, Walker talked about climate change, action, and sustainability.
This event was part of the In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom lecture series.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also view the video recordings of this event there.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor with Donna Murch, Conversation, 20 January 2016 – Video

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 20, 2016.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is assistant professor at the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. She writes about Black politics, housing inequality and issues of race and class in the U.S. Her articles have been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Jacobin, New Politics, The Black Commentator, Black Agenda Report, Ms., and elsewhere.

A recipient of a Lannan Residency Fellowship, her book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation is forthcoming in 2016.

Taylor talked about the Black liberation movement and the current and historical struggles of African Americans against police violence and for equal rights, followed by a talk with Donna Murch.

This event was part of the In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom lecture series.

In this episode, she is joined in conversation with Donna Murch. The companion Talk episode may be found here.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also listen to the audio recording of this event there.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor with Donna Murch, Talk, 20 January 2016 – Video

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 20, 2016.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is assistant professor at the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. She writes about Black politics, housing inequality and issues of race and class in the U.S. Her articles have been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Jacobin, New Politics, The Black Commentator, Black Agenda Report, Ms., and elsewhere.

A recipient of a Lannan Residency Fellowship, her book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation is forthcoming in 2016.

Taylor talked about the Black liberation movement and the current and historical struggles of African Americans against police violence and for equal rights, followed by a talk with Donna Murch.

This event was part of the In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom lecture series.

In this episode, she is introduced by Donna Murch and then gives a talk. The companion Conversation episode may be found here.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also listen to the audio recording of this event there.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor with Donna Murch, 20 January 2016 – Audio

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 20, 2016.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor with Donna Murch, 20 January 2016

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is assistant professor at the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. She writes about Black politics, housing inequality and issues of race and class in the U.S. Her articles have been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Jacobin, New Politics, The Black Commentator, Black Agenda Report, Ms., and elsewhere.

A recipient of a Lannan Residency Fellowship, her book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation is forthcoming in 2016.

Taylor talked about the Black liberation movement and the current and historical struggles of African Americans against police violence and for equal rights, followed by a talk with Donna Murch.

This event was part of the In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom lecture series.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also view the video recordings of this event there.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

Henry A. Giroux with Maya Schenwar, Conversation, 14 October 2015 – Video

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 14, 2015.

This event was part of the In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom lecture series.

Henry A. Giroux is an educator, author, and public intellectual. He has written more than 60 books, most recently Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education, The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America’s Disimagination Machine, Zombie Politics in the Age of Casino Capitalism (2nd edition), and Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism. He is a member of Truthout‘s Board of Directors and a regular contributor to the nonprofit, independent online news organization.

Giroux talked about the systematic undermining of American democracy by corporate and politically driven interests, followed by a talk with Maya Schenwar.

In this episode, he is joined in conversation with Maya Schenwar. The companion Talk episode may be found here.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also listen to the audio recording of this event there.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

Henry A. Giroux with Maya Schenwar, Talk, 14 October 2015 – Video

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 14, 2015.

This event was part of the In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom lecture series.

Henry A. Giroux is an educator, author, and public intellectual. He has written more than 60 books, most recently Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education, The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America’s Disimagination Machine, Zombie Politics in the Age of Casino Capitalism (2nd edition), and Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism. He is a member of Truthout‘s Board of Directors and a regular contributor to the nonprofit, independent online news organization.

Giroux talked about the systematic undermining of American democracy by corporate and politically driven interests, followed by a talk with Maya Schenwar.

In this episode, he is introduced by Maya Schenwar and then gives a talk. The companion Conversation episode may be found here.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also listen to the audio recording of this event there.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

Henry A. Giroux with Maya Schenwar, 14 October 2015 – Audio

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 14, 2015.

Henry A. Giroux with Maya Schenwar, 14 October 2015

This event was part of the In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom lecture series.

Henry A. Giroux is an educator, author, and public intellectual. He has written more than 60 books, most recently Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education, The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America’s Disimagination Machine, Zombie Politics in the Age of Casino Capitalism (2nd edition), and Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism. He is a member of Truthout‘s Board of Directors and a regular contributor to the nonprofit, independent online news organization.

Giroux talked about the systematic undermining of American democracy by corporate and politically driven interests, followed by a talk with Maya Schenwar.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also view the video recordings of this event there.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

Naomi Klein with Katharine Viner, Conversation, 29 April 2015 – Video

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 29, 2015.

This event was part of the In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom lecture series.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, fellow at The Nation Institute, and author of the international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. Her regular column for The Nation and The Guardian is distributed internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004 Klein won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine. The same year, she released The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories, co-produced with Avi Lewis.

Her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, to be published in September, examines why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.

In this episode she is joined in conversation with Katharine Viner. The companion Talk episode may be found here.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also listen to the audio recording of this event there.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.

Naomi Klein with Katharine Viner, Talk, 29 April 2015 – Video

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on April 29, 2015.

This event was part of the In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom lecture series.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, fellow at The Nation Institute, and author of the international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. Her regular column for The Nation and The Guardian is distributed internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004 Klein won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine. The same year, she released The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories, co-produced with Avi Lewis.

Her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, to be published in September, examines why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.

In this episode she is introduced by Katharine Viner and then gives a talk. The companion Conversation episode may be found here.

You may learn more about this event on the Lannan website; you may also listen to the audio recording of this event there.

Additional photos of this event are available on Flickr.