Approaching the Millennium: Global Changes, Local Effects
The 1996-97 Scientia Colloquia>

Fall Colloquia

Tuesday, 17 September
Baruch Brody
Professor of Philosophy, Rice University, and
Leon Jaworski Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Baylor College of Medicine
The Global Regulation of Research

Tuesday, 15 October
Three speakers:
Anthony Gorry
Vice President for Information Technology, Rice University
Werner Kelber
Turner Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University
Albert van Helden
Lynette Autrey Professor of History, Rice University
From Homer to the Internet: What Can We Learn from History about Changes in Information Technology?

Thursday, 14 November
Neal Lane
Director, National Science Foundation
The Dream of a Common Language: Making the Science-NonScience Bridge

Tuesday, 10 December
Benjamin Lee
Professor of Anthropology
Culture and Identity in an Age of Globalization

Spring Colloquia

Tuesday, 21 January
Stephen Klineberg
Professor of Sociology, Rice University
Globalization in the Houston Context: Facing the New Demographic and Economic Realities

Tuesday, 18 February
Jordan Konisky
Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies, Rice University
Commitment to Research and Graduate Education in a Time of Exte rnal Stress
Panel discussants: Judith Brown, James Kinsey, Moshe Vardi

Bochner Lecture
Thursday, 27 February 1997
8:00 p.m., Duncan Hall Auditorium, Rice University
Vartan Gregorian
President, Brown University
Is it Still Possible to be a Renaissance Man or Woman?

Tuesday, 18 March CANCELLED
Charles Henry
Vice Provost for the Library, Rice University
"Corn: Ethnobotany, Mystical Rooms, and Copyright Law"

Tuesday, 15 April
Kenneth J. Gergen
Gil and Frank Mustin Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College
"Technology, Self and the Moral Project"