Ranked #1
Preconditions for a Peaceful World
Preconditions for a Peaceful World
James Gilligan, director for the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Pennsylvania discu... Read more
30 Mar 2007
•
Ranked #2
Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear
Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear
Frances Moore Lappe, author of Diet for a Small Planet discusses ways and means to improve our prospects for a less thre... Read more
30 Mar 2007
•
Ranked #3
Conversations from the Edge: Vanishing Cultures and the Ethnosphere Project
Conversations from the Edge: Vanishing Cultures and the Ethnosphere Project
National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence Wade Davis, photographer Chris Rainier, and Aurora Forum director Mark... Read more
30 Mar 2007
•
Ranked #4
Celebrating South African Freedom A Symposium on the International Campaign to End Apartheid
Celebrating South African Freedom A Symposium on the International Campaign to End Apartheid
The Aurora Forum, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, and the Stanford Institute for Internati... Read more
30 Mar 2007
•
Most Popular Podcasts
The Joe Rogan Experience
TED Talks Daily
The Tim Ferriss Show
The Daily
Stuff You Should Know
Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Ranked #5
The Artist as Researcher: An Evening with Ralph Lemon
The Artist as Researcher: An Evening with Ralph Lemon
Ralph Lemon, choreographer and cross-disciplinary performer and artist, inaugurates the Art+Invention Speaker Series, wh... Read more
24 Feb 2010
•
Ranked #6
RFK: The Journey to Justice
RFK: The Journey to Justice
RFK: The Journey to Justice, a new play co-commissioned by Stanford Lively Arts for the acclaimed radio theater company,... Read more
24 Feb 2010
•
Ranked #7
What Matters: Documentary Photography and Social Change
What Matters: Documentary Photography and Social Change
David Elliot Cohen, Michael Watts, and Ed Kashi talk about the book What Matters, a photo-essay collection, along with f... Read more
7 Aug 2009
•
Ranked #8
Gratitude and Poetry for Water
Gratitude and Poetry for Water
The purpose of this talk is to bring poetic and scientific sensibilities to bear on life-sustaining elements that we oft... Read more
7 Aug 2009
•
Ranked #9
Tibet: Where Continents and Cultures Collide
Tibet: Where Continents and Cultures Collide
Panelists discuss the physical geography of Tibet and assess the impact of development projects and efforts to protect a... Read more
3 Jun 2009
•
Ranked #10
Parker Palmer and the Courage to Teach
Parker Palmer and the Courage to Teach
Independent scholar, author, and educator Parker Palmer discusses his book "The Courage to Teach" and shares his insight... Read more
4 May 2009
•
Ranked #11
Creative Couples Series: Irvin and Marilyn Yalom
Creative Couples Series: Irvin and Marilyn Yalom
Our conversation begins with the Yaloms’ poignant explorations of human finitude and then turns to the story of their ti... Read more
24 Feb 2009
•
Ranked #12
Education for Citizenship Series: Consuming Culture and Greed (Video)
Education for Citizenship Series: Consuming Culture and Greed (Video)
This installment in our Education for Citizenship series on virtues and vices examines greed, a selfish and excessive de... Read more
4 Feb 2009
•
Ranked #13
Education for Citizenship Series: Consuming Culture and Greed (Audio)
Education for Citizenship Series: Consuming Culture and Greed (Audio)
This installment in our Education for Citizenship series on virtues and vices examines greed, a selfish and excessive de... Read more
4 Feb 2009
•
Ranked #14
An Evening with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
An Evening with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Skip Gates Jr., the Director of the W.E.B. De Bois Institute for African and African American Research and t... Read more
19 Dec 2008
•
Ranked #15
Only Connect: Reinvigorating American Education
Only Connect: Reinvigorating American Education
Speakers Rudy Crew, former Chancellor of the New York City public school district, and Dr. Madeline Levine, a psychologi... Read more
19 Dec 2008
•
Ranked #16
Disaster Capitalism and the Rise of Democratic Reconstruction
Disaster Capitalism and the Rise of Democratic Reconstruction
Naomi Klein exposes the underpinnings of the current financial crisis and presents a new paradigm for understanding glob... Read more
28 Oct 2008
•
Ranked #17
Citizens, Neighbors, Strangers, Friends: What is Citizenship in the 21st Century?
Citizens, Neighbors, Strangers, Friends: What is Citizenship in the 21st Century?
Danielle Allen discusses the sacrifices citizens make to keep democracy working in spite of the vices that often get in ... Read more
22 Oct 2008
•
Ranked #18
Global Solidarity, Human Rights, and the End of Poverty
Global Solidarity, Human Rights, and the End of Poverty
To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968), the Au... Read more
27 May 2008
•
Ranked #19
On the Pursuit of Happiness: An Evening with Robert Thurman and Pico Iyer
On the Pursuit of Happiness: An Evening with Robert Thurman and Pico Iyer
Novelist and travel writer Pico Iyer joins Robert Thurman, Columbia University professor and founder of Tibet House in N... Read more
1 May 2008
•
Ranked #20
Against Ignorance: Science Education in the 21st Century
Against Ignorance: Science Education in the 21st Century
The rise of religiously motivated threats to scientific practice and instruction in American schools has motivated biolo... Read more
21 Apr 2008
•
