From: FORA.tv on Tue, Nov 23 2010 10:57 PM

David Yermack: The Michelle Markup L2 - The Morgan LibraryOn November 5, L2 and NYU Stern hosted its second-annual Innovation Forum at The Morgan Library in New York City. The full-day event addressed innovation in digital marketing and implications for prestige brands.L2 Forums are the largest ...

From: FORA.tv on Tue, Nov 23 2010 10:55 PM

Aswath Damodaran: Valuing Luxury L2 - The Morgan LibraryOn November 5, L2 and NYU Stern hosted its second-annual Innovation Forum at The Morgan Library in New York City. The full-day event addressed innovation in digital marketing and implications for prestige brands.L2 Forums are the largest ga...

From: FORA.tv on Tue, Nov 23 2010 10:55 PM

Sheena Iyengar: The Art of Choosing L2 - The Morgan LibraryOn November 5, L2 and NYU Stern hosted its second-annual Innovation Forum at The Morgan Library in New York City. The full-day event addressed innovation in digital marketing and implications for prestige brands.L2 Forums are the largest...

From: FORA.tv on Mon, Nov 22 2010 10:52 PM

LIVE from the NYPL: Zadie SmithThe New York Public Library - Celeste Bartos ForumJoin English novelist Zadie Smith in conversation with Paul Holdengrber. Smith’s acclaimed first novel, White Teeth, won a number of awards and prizes. Her tenure as Writer in Residence at the Institute of Contempor...

From: FORA.tv on Fri, Nov 19 2010 3:55 PM

Monitor Breakfast: Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson (FREE)The Christian Science Monitor - St. Regis HotelErskine Bowles and Senator Alan Simpson, Co-Chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, sit down for a conversation with attendees of the Monitor Breakfast to disc...

From: FORA.tv on Fri, Nov 19 2010 1:05 PM

Monitor Breakfast: Erskine Bowles and Alan SimpsonThe Christian Science Monitor - St. Regis HotelErskine Bowles and Senator Alan Simpson, Co-Chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, sit down for a conversation with attendees of the Monitor Breakfast to discuss the...

From: FORA.tv on Thu, Nov 18 2010 9:20 PM

Diane di Prima: An Evening of Reading and ConversationThe Graduate Center, CUNY - Martin E. Segal TheatreJoin the iconic poet and activist Diane di Prima for a rare New York City appearance. Graduate Center Professor Ammiel Alcalay will engage her in a conversation about her work and life after ...

From: FORA.tv on Thu, Nov 18 2010 9:20 PM

Long Conversation with Danese Cooper and Stuart CandyThe Long Now Foundation - Contemporary Jewish MuseumLong Conversation, an epic relay of one-to-one conversations among some of the Bay Area’s most interesting minds, took place over six hours in San Francisco on Saturday, October 16, 02010. In...

From: FORA.tv on Wed, Nov 17 2010 11:46 PM

Stones Guitarist Keith Richards Talks About 'Life’The New York Public Library - Celeste Bartos Forum"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library ...

From: FORA.tv on Wed, Nov 17 2010 5:34 PM

Nicole Krauss: Great House Sixth and I Historic Synagogue - Sixth & I Historic SynagogueFor twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet’s secret police; one day a girl claiming to b...

From: FORA.tv on Mon, Nov 15 2010 5:27 PM

Another Government Health Insurance Program? Cato Institute - Cato InstituteA major sticking point is whether Congress should create a new government health insurance program to compete with private insurers to cover Americans not yet eligible for Medicare. Is fair competition between public and ...

From: FORA.tv on Mon, Nov 15 2010 5:26 PM

Will It Cost the Earth to Save the Planet? Whole Earth Films - Sante Fe InstituteIt is now generally agreed that human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases are very likely to cause global warming. This will have serious consequences in the next fifty to one hundred years. What should be done? Som...

From: FORA.tv on Mon, Nov 15 2010 5:25 PM

Afghanistan: Transition to What?The German Marshall Fund - Halifax International Security ForumThe deteriorating political and security situation in Afghanistan is one of the most urgent challenges facing the international community today. Taliban terrorism is increasingly virulent, and casualti...

From: FORA.tv on Mon, Nov 15 2010 5:25 PM

Do Robots Make Better Astronauts? Wonderfest - UC Berkeley Stanley HallFeaturing speakers Chris McKay, Planetary Scientist, NASA-Ames Research Center and Kanna Rajan, Principal Researcher for Autonomy, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Moderated by Brian Malow.Wonderfest, the Bay Area Fe...

From: FORA.tv on Mon, Nov 15 2010 5:25 PM

Genomics: Where Have We Come and Where Are We Going? California Academy of Sciences - California Academy of SciencesDr. Jeffrey Boore opens the fall 2009 BioForum with an overview of the structure and function of DNA and the history of scientific efforts to sequence genomes of many organisms, in...

From: FORA.tv on Mon, Nov 15 2010 5:25 PM

Is Democracy Not For Everyone? Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Sydney Opera HouseWinston Churchill famously said that democracy was the worst form of government - except for all the others that have been tried. In western countries like Australia the universal good of democracy is simply as...

From: FORA.tv on Mon, Nov 15 2010 5:25 PM

Which Stars Support Intelligent Life? Wonderfest - UC Berkeley Stanley HallFeaturing Ken Croswell, astronomer and author of The Lives of Stars and Magnificent Universe.Wonderfest, the Bay Area Festival of Science, is held each year in the beginning of November. Enjoy fascinating discussions betw...

From: FORA.tv on Mon, Nov 15 2010 5:25 PM

Should All Drug Use Be Made Legal? Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Sydney Opera HouseAlthough the media sporadically reports on major narcotic raids, the general consensus about the war on drugs is that small battles will not win this war. Despite all the money spent on drug enforcement wo...

From: FORA.tv on Mon, Nov 15 2010 5:25 PM

Kilcullen and Burnside: Does the End Justify the Means? Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Melbourne Writers FestivalThe world’s foremost counterinsurgency expert, David Kilcullen and Julian Burnside, a barrister and human rights advocate make for an explosive combination when discussing if t...

From: FORA.tv on Mon, Nov 15 2010 5:25 PM

Are Healthcare Purchase Mandates Constitutional? Georgetown University - Georgetown University Law CenterThe Constitutionality of Mandates to Purchase Health Insurance: A debate of opposing viewpoints as to whether an individual mandate to purchase insurance is constitutional with Louis Michael S...