Lectures tagged "GLBTQ"


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Debating Same-Sex Marriage / The Good Life
Michael Sandel
November 29, 2009
00:55:10
Lecture Twenty-Two: "Debating Same-Sex Marriage" If principles of justice depend on the moral or intrinsic worth of the ends that rights serve, how does society deal with the fact that people hold different ideas and conceptions of what is good?
James Ellroy: Blood's a Rover
James Ellroy
September 23, 2009
00:42:43
Los Angeles crime novelist James Ellroy tells the story of how, when he was a newborn, the borzoi dog of book publisher Alfred A. Knopf visited him in the hospital and told him that he had to write a great novel to save Americans from illiteracy in the year 2009.
Audio-only
Breakthrough: Foreign Language Films in the US
Sebastian Silva
June 19, 2009
00:53:41
Director Sebastian Silva, exhibition consultant Steven Raphael, and film distributor Marcus Hu discuss the current climate for finding audiences for foreign-language films in the US today.
Audio-only
Gay and Lesbian Shorts: Festival and Beyond
Tom Gustafson
June 18, 2009
00:54:26
Tom Gustafson and Cory Krueckeberg, creators of the films Revelations and Were the World Mine, Jane Clark, director of Beyond Words, and moderator Basil Tsiokos, of the NewFest and Sundance Film Festivals, discuss the joys and challenges of producing gay- and lesbian-theme
Kate Clinton: I Told You So
Kate Clinton
May 27, 2009
01:03:47
Comedian Kate Clinton shares from her third book, I Told You So, which spans refreshingly disparate topics: sexual hypocrisy and gay marriage; 9/11 and its aftermath; girls gone wild and boys gone to war; Hillary Clinton and US politics; baptism and waterboarding; intelligent design and bod
LGBT Film Festival 2009: Queer Filmmaking Evolution
David Pendleton
May 10, 2009
01:06:13
A panel explores queer filmmaking and its history with those who make it and program it.
Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters
May 1, 2009
00:59:45
Sarah Waters discusses her new book, The Little Stranger, a haunted house story set in 1940s Britian.
Achy Obejas: Ruins
Achy Obejas
April 30, 2009
01:11:28
Achy Obejas discusses her new book Ruins, which tells the story of Usnavy, a young man who eagerly signed on for all the promises when the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959.