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• Where Has All The Caring GonePresented by Dr. Anthony Lechich, Physician and Medical Director of Terence Cardinal Cooke Medical Center, 2012-04-19
• Muslim Hermeneutics and Modern Arabic Views of EvolutionProfessor Marwa Elshakry Ph.D., Associate Professor of History at Columbia University, 2011-10-06
• HallucinationsDr. Oliver Sacks, professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia Artist, 2011-09-27
• Nursing Home Care Paradox: Ensuring Quality of Life - Fostering Dignity in DeathDr. Anthony J. Lechich, M.D. Medical Director and Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs, Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center, 2010-12-08
• God of Creation/God of Destruction: An Eco-theological Perspective on the Meaning of Evil and SufferingRabbi Lawrence Troster, Fellowship Program Director and Rabbinic Scholar-in-Residence, GreenFaith; Co-Chair, Interfaith Partnership for the Environment of United Nations Environment Program, 2010-11-04
• Building the Just and Beautiful CityDr. Mindy Fullilove, M.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health; Co-Director, Community Research Group, NY State Psychiatric Institute and MSPH, 2010-10-14
• A Tale of Two Socioeconomic SystemsDr. Walter Ehrlich, M.D. M.P.H., Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Dr. Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, M.D. M.P.H., Senior Health Scientist at the Earth Institute, Millennium Villages Project Director of Health, 2010-10-05
• Becoming Human: Why two minds are better than oneHerbert S. Terrace, Professor of Psychology at Columbia University, 2010-10-01
• Can Science Explain Religion?John Horgan, Director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Instiute of Technology, 2009-12-10
• Science and Religion: How they are bound together in light of Quranic referencesImam Syed Sayeed, Religious Life Advisor for Muslim Students Association of Columbia University, 2009-09-24
• Challenges to Islam, Christianity and Judaism in Today's Global Crisis - Part I of IIHans Kung, President, Global Ethic Foundation; Reverend Brad Brexton, Senior Minister, The Riverside Church; Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Robert Pollack, Director, The Center for the Study of Science and Religion, 2008-11-13
• Challenges to Islam, Christianity and Judaism in Today's Global Crisis - Part II` of IIHans Kung, President, Global Ethic Foundation; Reverend Brad Brexton, Senior Minister, The Riverside Church; Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Robert Pollack, Director, The Center for the Study of Science and Religion, 2008-11-13
• Cold Evil: Technology and Ethics in the 21st CenturyAndrew Kimbrell, Executive Director, International Center for Technology Assessment, 2007-11-28
• Memories: Impact on the Present and the FutureEthel S. Person, M.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University; Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research, 2007-11-07
• Designing Earthlings: Unifying Reason and Values to Meet the Challenges We FacePeter Eisenberger, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Earth Institute, Columbia University, 2007-09-19
• Disaster Preparation: What and WhyIrwin Redlener, MD, President, The Children’s Health Fund; Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, and Associate Dean for Public Health Advocacy and Preparedness, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 2007-02-22
• Slavery and the University: Brown University's Steering Committee on Slavery and JusticeJames Campbell, Ph.D., Professor of American Civilization, Africana Studies and History; Chair, Brown's Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, Brown University, 2007-02-07
• Sustainable Development—Can it Save the Creation?A Conversation Between Edward O. Wilson and Jeffrey D. Sachs, Introduced by Dr. Robert Pollack, 2006-11-16
• Blame it on the Genes? The Challenge of Behavioral Genetics and Free WillPaul S. Appelbaum, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Division of Psychiatry, Law, and Ethics, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University , 2006-09-27
• African Villagers: Eliminating Hunger, Evolving OutlooksPedro Sanchez, Ph.D., Director of the Tropical Agriculture Initiatives and Senior Research Scholar at the Earth Institute at Columbia University; Senior Research Scholar, The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI); Co-Chair of the , 2006-09-20
• Mapping Genomes, Remapping Race: The Social and Ethical Implications of the Molecular Reinscription of RaceTroy Duster, Ph.D., Director, Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, NYU; President of the American Sociological Association; Senior Fellow of the Rockridge Institute; Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at the University of California,, 2006-06-07
• Darwin, Design, and the Future of FaithPhilip Kitcher, Ph.D., John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University , 2006-04-26
• Is Religion Really Good for Your Health?Dr. Richard P. Sloan, Professor of Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Behavioral Medicine Program, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 2005-11-30
• What You've Done to the Least of TheseDr. Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches USA, former six-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's Seventh District, and former president of Claremont School of Theology., 2005-11-16
• The HIV Epidemic: A Catalyst for Better Healthcare for All?Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, Professor of Clinical Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons; Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Harlem Hospital; Director, Center for Infectious Diseases Epidemiologic Research, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia, 2005-11-09
• Genetically SpeakingPatricia Williams, JD, James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia School of Law; columnist for The Nation, 2005-11-02
• Thoughts on Religion by a Protestant Fundamentalist Turned Hard-Nosed ScientistWallace S. Broecker, PhD , Newberry Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 2005-09-28
• Dignity of Life at the End of Life: Jewish Medical, Religious, Legal and Personal PerspectivesSponsored by The Center for the Study of Science and Religion, the New York UJA Federation, The David Berg Foundation, and Mr. Harvey Krueger, 2005-05-22
• Can We Defuse the Global Warming Time Bomb?Dr. James Hansen, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2004-12-01
• Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic EvolutionNeil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D. Astrophysicist and Director, Hayden Planetarium, 2004-11-17
• Creating a Culture of Civility in a Diverse EnvironmentGardner Dunnan, Assistant Provost for Special Projects and Head of School at The School at Columbia University, 2004-10-20
• The Limitations of Religious ToleranceJoseph Hough, Ph.D., President of the Faculty and William E. Dodge Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York, 2003-11-11
• Connectivity for Sustainability: Deploying IT & Knowledge for DevelopmentNazli Choucri, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science; Director, Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD); Associate Director, Technology and Development Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003-10-21
• The Romance of Water: Culture, Religion, Science and the Pathway to SustenanceUpmanu Lall, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering; Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Earth Institute, Columbia University, 2003-10-07
• The Role of Faith-Based Institutions in Debt Relief and DevelopmentSara Sievers, M.B.A., Executive Director, Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University, 2003-05-06
• Long-term Perspectives of Economics Development in the Islamic Middle EastJeffrey Sachs, Ph.D., Director, Earth Institute; Quetelet Professor of Social Science and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University, 2003-04-01
• The Good Samaritan and his GenesHolmes Rolston, III, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University, 2003-03-04
• Why is This Gene Different from All Other Genes? Testing for Genetic Diseases in the Jewish Community: Medical, Religious, Legal, and Personal Issues - Part Three: The Community's ChallengeDr. Kaplan, genetic screening program, Montreal Children's Hospital, El Saraish, NYU School of Medicine, Mark Levine, Hematology Lincoln Hospital, Rabi Modechai Willick, Advanced Rabbinical Studies - Yeshiva, Dr. Fred Rosner, moderator, 2003-02-16
• Why is This Gene Different from All Other Genes? Testing for Genetic Diseases in the Jewish Community: Medical, Religious, Legal, and Personal Issues - Part Four: Representative Jerrold Nadler & Part Five: The Patient and the FamilyDr. Kaplan, genetic screening program, Montreal Children's Hospital, El Saraish, NYU School of Medicine, Mark Levine, Hematology Lincoln Hospital, Rabi Modechai Willick, Advanced Rabbinical Studies - Yeshiva, Dr. Fred Rosner, moderator, 2003-02-16
• Why is This Gene Different from All Other Genes? Testing for Genetic Diseases in the Jewish Community: Medical, Religious, Legal, and Personal Issues - Part One: From Smallpox to Chromosomes & Part Two: The ProfessionalDr. Kaplan, genetic screening program, Montreal Children's Hospital, El Saraish, NYU School of Medicine, Mark Levine, Hematology Lincoln Hospital, Rabi Modechai Willick, Advanced Rabbinical Studies - Yeshiva, Dr. Fred Rosner, moderator, 2003-02-16
• Faith in a World Shaped by Einstein and HitlerIsmar Schorsch, Ph.D., Chancellor and Rabbi Herman Abramovitz Professor of Jewish History, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2003-02-11
• Destructive Emotions: Neuroscience, Psychology and BuddhismRichard Davidson, Ph.D., Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., Robert A.F. Thurman, Ph.D., 2003-01-28
• Robots That Can Collaborate and LearnManuela Veloso, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Computer Science, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002-04-03
• The Varieties of Ordinary ExperienceJerome Bruner, a native New Yorker, is University Professor at New York University , where he teaches at the School of Law., 2002-03-25
• The Fragmentation of Consciousness and The Varieties of Religious Experience: William James's Contribution to a Theory of ReligionAnn Taves, Professor of History of Christianity and American Religion at the Claremont School of Theology and Professor of Religion at the Claremont Graduate University, 2002-03-25
• Some Inconsistencies in James's VarietiesRichard Rorty, educated at the University of Chicago and Yale, taught at Wellesley, Princeton, the University of Virginia . Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford, 2002-03-25
• Pragmatism and 'An Unseen Order' in VarietiesWayne Proudfoot, Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Columbia University, 2002-03-24
• Damned for God's Glory: William James and the Scientific Vindication of Protestant CultureDavid Hollinger, Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California , Berkeley, 2002-03-24
• The Problem of Evil Speaking of Faith, an American Public Media ProgramRobert Pollack, Rami Nashashibi , Lisa Lampman, M. Scott Peck, Leon Weinstein and daughter Natalie Gold, 2002-02-15
• Meditative and Contemplative States - The Higher Educations of Meditation and Wisdom: Lessons from the Indo-Tibetan UniversityRobert A. F. Thurman, Ph.D., Professor of Religion, Columbia University, 2001-11-07
• Meditative and Contemplative States - Meditation and the Self-Regulation of Learning: A Link Between Health Science and Religion?Joseph Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2001-10-30
• Experiencing the Mysterious: Old Wine, New Flasks: Reflections on Science and Jewish TraditionRoald Hoffman, Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters (Chemistry and Chem-Bio), Cornell University, Spring 2001 Visiting Professor at Columbia, 2001-04-17
• Experiencing the Mysterious Manjushri's Wisdom Sword: A Buddhist View of Religion and ScienceRobert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, 2001-04-03
• Experiencing the Mysterious: The Many-Sided Conflict between Science and ReligionPhilip Kitcher, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 2001-03-28
• Experiencing the Mysterious: A Bioethicist's View from Academe to Public Service and BackRuth Fischbach, Professor of Bioethics in Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2001-03-21
• God and Robots Series - Are our Bodies Our Selves? Insights from RoboticsDr. Anne Foerst, founder of MIT's God and Computers Project, Director of the CTNS Religion and Science Course Program for the Northeast region, theological adviser for the Cog and Kismet projects at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 2000-04-19
• God and Robots Series - Stories we Tell: Where Robotics and Theology MeetDr. Anne Foerst, founder of MIT's God and Computers Project, Director of the CTNS Religion and Science Course Program for the Northeast region, theological adviser for the Cog and Kismet projects at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 2000-04-05
• Grave Matters, on the Role of Death in LifePresented by Dr. Sheldon Solomon Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at Skidmore College
• Neuroscience and Free Will Symposium - Part IWelcoming Remarks: Paul Gailey, Jeffrey Sachs Introduction/Moderation: Bob Pollack "The Volitional Brain": Darcy Kelly "I'm Not a Heretic, I'm a Pagan": David Helfand "Behavioral Genetics and Free Will": Paul Appelbaum
• The Language of God: A Believer Looks at the Human GenomeFrancis S. Collins, M.D., PH.D. Director, Human Genome Project
• The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our TimeJonathan Weiner Professor, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University
• Science, Religion and Politics: A Clash of CulturesKenneth Edelin, Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and author of Broken Justice. A True Story of Race, Sex and Revenge in a Boston Courtroom's
• Neuroscience and Free Will Symposium - Part IIIWelcoming Remarks: Paul Gailey, Jeffrey Sachs Introduction/Moderation: Bob Pollack "The Volitional Brain": Darcy Kelly "I'm Not a Heretic, I'm a Pagan": David Helfand "Behavioral Genetics and Free Will": Paul Appelbaum
• Neuroscience and Free Will Symposium - Part IIWelcoming Remarks: Paul Gailey, Jeffrey Sachs Introduction/Moderation: Bob Pollack "The Volitional Brain": Darcy Kelly "I'm Not a Heretic, I'm a Pagan": David Helfand "Behavioral Genetics and Free Will": Paul Appelbaum
• The Deadly Link between Slavery and Environmental DestructionDr. Kevin Bales, Professor
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