Fall 2008     Spring 2009
24 SEPTEMBER
CHANGE SINCE PLATO
Alexander Nehamas, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton; Author of The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault
15 OCTOBER
LANGUAGE CHANGE
William Labov, Professor of Linguistics, Penn; Author of Atlas of North American English
29 OCTOBER
CHANGING PLACES,
CHANGING FACES

Spencer Wells,
Evolutionary Geneticist, National Geographic Society; Author of The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
12 NOVEMBER
CLIMATE CHANGE
Dale Jamieson,
Professor of Environmental Philosophy, NYU; Author of Morality's Progress

19 NOVEMBER
CHANGING THE CANON:
SELF-TAUGHT ARTISTS

James Castle Film & Panel
Film screening and panel with John Ollman, Ann Percy, and Jeffrey Wolf

6 DECEMBER
THE UNFOLDING OF COMPOSITION
Daedalus Quartet performing Haydn's Opus 20
 
28 JANUARY
ORPHIC AND METAMORPHIC: INSTRUMENTS OF MUSIC AND SCIENCE
Emily Dolan, Penn Musicologist
John Tresch, Penn Historian of Science
4 FEBRUARY
MYSTERIES OF TRANSLATION
Alastair Reid, Poet and Translator; Author of Oases and On the Blue Shore of Silence
11 FEBRUARY
DR. S.T. LEE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE

TRAGEDY IS EASY, COMEDY IS HARD, AND LOVE IS DAMN NEAR IMPOSSIBLE
Amy Bloom, Author of Away and Love Invents Us
26 FEBRUARY
CULTURAL MOBILITY: THE STRANGE TRAVELS OF SHAKESPEARE'S CARDENIO
Stephen Greenblatt, Professor of English, Harvard; Author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare became Shakespeare
18 MARCH
ALL THAT IS SOLID
Lawrence Weschler, Artistic Director, Chicago Humanities Festival; Author of Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences
26 MARCH
PRESTO, CHANGEO! MAGICIANS
IN ANCIENT TIMES
Peter Struck, Penn Assoc. Professor of Classical Studies and "Change" Topic Director; Author of Birth of the Symbol
1 APRIL
10th ANNIVERSARY FINALE: OPERA PREMIÉRE
The Loathly Lady
Julianne Baird,
title role; Gary Thor Wedow, Conductor; early insturmentalists, Piffaro and Parthenia