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Vanessa Grigoriadis: 'Rape' or 'Consent' and Who Should Judge the Accused?

Thu, Sep 7, 2017

What’s really happening behind closed doors on America’s college campuses? A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front lines. Women use fresh, savvy methods to fight entrenched sexism and sexual assault even as they celebrate their own sexuality as never before. Many "woke" male students are more sensitive to women’s concerns than previous generations ever were, while other men can still perpetuate misogyny. Meanwhile, the new Secretary of Education appointed by President Trump intends to eliminate college court hearings of rape. Amid all the contradictions, it’s no surprise that intense confusion shrouds the topic of consent on campus. Vanessa Grigoriadis dispels that confusion as no other writer could by talking candidly with dozens of students—among them, both accusers and accused—as well as administrators, parents, and researchers. Her unprecedented investigation presents a host of new truths. Photo: SchuminWeb in [Slutwalk FlickrRiver](http://www.flickriver.com/groups/1830007@N22/pool/random/ "")

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Salman Rushdie: The Golden House

Fri, Sep 8, 2017

Author Salman Rushdie discusses his latest novel,_ The Golden House_. Rushdie is joined in conversation by Homi K. Bhabha, Director of the [Mahindra Humanities Center](http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/ "website") at Harvard University. **About the Book** On the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in the architectural jewel of “the Gardens,” a cloistered community in New York’s Greenwich Village. The neighborhood is a bubble within a bubble, and the residents are immediately intrigued by the eccentric newcomer and his family. [—Penguin Random House](http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558138/the-golden-house-by-salman-rushdie/9780399592805/ "") Thumbnail Image: [Spencer Means/Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/hunky_punk/23139048910 "")

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Bernie Swain and Doris Kearns Goodwin

Fri, May 19, 2017

Speakers Bureau co-founder, Bernie Swain, and Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, Doris Kearns Goodwin, discuss Swain's book, _What Made Me Who I Am_, a collection of profiles on thirty-four remarkable leaders, including Goodwin, and the influences that shaped them. Photo Credit: Animated Heaven/[Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/71195909@N03/15579436810 "Success Story")

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Paul Yoon: 'The Mountain'

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

Paul Yoon, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University and author of _Once the Shore_ and _Snow Hunters_ reads from his latest book, _The Mountain: Stories._ In _The Mountain_, Paul Yoon displays his subtle, ethereal, and strikingly observant style with six thematically linked stories, taking place across several continents and time periods and populated with characters who are connected by their traumatic pasts, newly vagrant lives, and quests for solace in their futures. Photo Credit: Bundesarchiv/[Wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_121-1429,_Drontheim-Fjord,_Schlachtschiff_%22Tirpitz%22.jpg "Ofot-Fjord, Schlachtschiff "Tirpitz"")

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Why? What Makes Us Curious

Mon, Jul 24, 2017

Astrophysicist Mario Livio, the bestselling author of _The Golden Ratio, Is God a Mathematician?_, _Brilliant Blunders_, and _The Accelerating Universe_—for a discussion of his latest book, _Why?: What Makes Us Curious_. Livio discusses investigating perhaps the most human of all our characteristics—curiosity—and explores our desire to ask "why?" Photo Credit:[pixabay](https://pixabay.com/"")

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Guy Delisle discusses his book 'Hostage'

Mon, May 15, 2017

Cartoonist and animator Guy Delisle, author of *Burma Chronicles, Jerusalem, Pyongyang*, and *Shenzhen*, joins comics scholar Hillary L. Chute, author of *Outside the Box, Graphic Women*, and *Disaster Drawn*, for a discussion of Delisle's latest book, *Hostage*. _This tour is supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States._

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Arundhati Roy: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Tue, Jun 20, 2017

_The Ministry of Utmost Happiness_ takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent, from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war. It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love—and by hope. Photo: (CC) Internaz/Flickr

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Haroon Moghul: How to Be a Muslim

Wed, Jun 28, 2017

Haroon Moghul was thrust into the spotlight after 9/11, becoming an undergraduate leader at New York University’s Islamic Center forced into appearances everywhere: on TV, before interfaith audiences, in print. Moghul was becoming a prominent voice for American Muslims even as he struggled with his relationship to Islam. In high school he was barely a believer and entirely convinced he was going to hell. He sometimes drank. He didn’t pray regularly. All he wanted was a girlfriend. But as he discovered, it wasn’t so easy to leave religion behind. To be true to himself, he needed to forge a unique American Muslim identity that reflected his beliefs and personality. How to Be a Muslim reveals a young man coping with the crushing pressure of a world that fears Muslims, struggling with his faith and searching for intellectual forebears, and suffering the onset of bipolar disorder. This is the story of the second-generation immigrant, of what it’s like to lose yourself between cultures and how to pick up the pieces. Thumbnail photo by Lorie Shaull from Washington, United States [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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JFK: A Vision for America

Sun, May 14, 2017

Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy’s birth, _JFK: A Vision for America_ is the definitive compendium of JFK’s most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures—including Senator Elizabeth Warren, David McCullough, Kofi Annan, and the Dalai Lama. Combined with over seven hundred documentary photos, it tells the story, in words and pictures, of JFK’s life and his presidency, and depicts his compelling vision for America. Historian Fredrik Logevall moderates a discussion between the book's editors, JFK’s nephew Stephen Kennedy Smith and renowned historian Douglas Brinkley, who are joined by Ambassador Samantha Power and journalist Ron Suskind on the legacy of JFK as portrayed in this compendium. Photo: Public Domain, JFK with Peace Corps by Abbie Rowe, August 1962 (NARA)

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Noam Chomsky and Amy Goodman Discuss Economic Inequality

Mon, Apr 24, 2017

**Noam Chomsky**, MIT's Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, and **Amy Goodman**, host of the award-winning independent news program _Democracy Now!_ discuss the unprecedented rate of inequality in the U.S. and its impacts on society and democracy, as addressed in Chomsky's book/doc film, [_Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power_](http://www.harvard.com/event/noam_chomsky/ ""). Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality. "Requiem for the American Dream" is not an essay collection but an entire work of some 70,000 words based on four years of interviews with Chomsky by the editors. Chomsky considers these to be his final, long-form documentary interviews. It is a book that makes Chomsky's breadth and depth accessible, and at the same gives us his most powerful political ideas with unprecedented, breathtaking directness. It will go down as one of his greatest and most lasting contributions. Requiem for the American Dream is being produced in tandem with the film of the same name that was recently released in selected theaters and is now available to watch via online streaming.

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