Lectures tagged "Laureates"


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Al Gore: A Plan to Solve the Global Climate Crisis
Al Gore
November 7, 2009
01:07:40
Former US Vice President and climate change activist Al Gore discusses his new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Global Climate Crisis.
Orhan Pamuk: The Museum of Innocence
Orhan Pamuk
October 24, 2009
01:00:01
Orhan Pamuk discusses his new novel, The Museum of Innocence, his first since winning the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Pamuk talks about literature, love, and life with commentator Christopher Lydon. Co-sponsored by PEN New England and the New York Review of Books.
Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the 21st Century
James Orbinski
October 21, 2009
00:59:29
Physician and humanitarian James Orbinski discusses his new book, An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century. During his medical school days, James Orbinski journeyed to Rwanda on a year-long research trip.
Robert Hass Reads "Selected Haiku" by Issa
Robert Hass
April 1, 2009
Hass reads "Selected Haiku" by Kobayashi Issa from his book of translations The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa. Issa, who was born in 1763 to a farming family in rural Japan, is considered one of four great masters of Haiku.
Billy Collins Reads "The Lanyard"
Billy Collins
April 1, 2009
00:02:57
Billy Collins reads his poem "The Lanyard", in which the speaker explores how contrasting images in a poem can create meaning as he remembers a gift he made for his mother.
Lucille Clifton Reads "won't you celebrate with me"
Lucille Clifton
April 1, 2009
00:01:24
Contemporary poet Lucille Clifton explores themes of identity, race, and gender as she reads her poem, “won’t you celebrate with me.”
What Retirement Means to Me
Paul Solman
October 23, 2008
01:45:39
A panel of senior economists responds to questions about money management and retirement posed by PBS Newshour economics correspondent Paul Solman and by audience members.
Waqas Khwaja: No One Waits for the Train
Waqas Ahmad Khwaja
October 16, 2008
00:50:40
Professor and author Waqas Khwaja reads from and discusses his poetry collection, No One Waits for the Train.