BOCHNER LECTURE
[co-sponsored with the President's Lecture Series]

Thursday, 21 September 1995, 8:00 p.m.

Grand Hall, Rice Memorial Center Roger Penrose
Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University
"Towards a New Physical World View"

COLLOQUIA - FALL 1995

Tuesday, 10 October 1995
Bill Martin
Professor of Sociology, Rice University
"Apocalypse Soon: the Contemporary Significance of Biblical Prophecy"

Tuesday, 14 November 1995
David Nirenberg
Assistant Professor of History, Rice University
"From Nebuchadnezzar to Negroponte: Three millennia of millennialism"

Tuesday, 5 December 1995
Melanie Mitchell
Director of Adaptive Computation, Santa Fe Institute
"What "Complex Systems" Approaches Can Offer to Science"

 

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COLLOQUIA - SPRING 1996

"Approaching the Millennium: Technologies, Communities, Histories"

Tuesday, 23 January 1996
David Walker
Chairman and Professor, Department of Pathology, and Director, Center for
Tropical Diseases, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
"The New Threat of Infectious Disease: Lessons from the Past"

Thursday, 8 February 1996
Gale Stokes
Professor, Department of History, Rice University
"Doing Something about Nationalism"

Tuesday, 20 February 1996
Edward Djerejian
Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
"U.S. Policy toward Islam and the Arc of Crisis"

Tuesday, 19 March 1996
Richard Smalley
Norman and Gene Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics,
Rice University
"Nanotechnology and the Next Fifty Years"

Tuesday, 16 April 1996
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Ethics, University of Chicago
"Between Past and Future: Democracy on Trial"
Co-sponsored by Political Science Department