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Contains 84 Results:

Will Boys Be Boys? Creating Masculinities, 2003 May 10

 File — Box: Mixed nav_46, cassette: NS070218_AC192-196
Scope and Contents Ken Corbett, psychoanalyst, co-editor, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Michael Kimmell, Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook; with invited discussants including Terence Real, author of / Don't Want to Talk About It; Sam Osherson, author of Finding Our Fathers; Pedro Noguera, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Barney Brawer; and Jeffrey Canada.This day of dialogue and debate is devoted to our understanding of male development and the movement of boys into manhood in...
Dates: 2003 May 10

Anxiety in an Age of Terror, 2003 February 25

 File — Box: Mixed nav_46, cassette: NS070218_AC190
Scope and Contents Mark Galanter, Professor of Psychiatry, Chair of Dept. of Addiction Medicine, NYU School of Medicine; Esther Heinerman, Professor of Literature, Long Island University; Jerome D. Levin, Senior Fellow of the Wolfson Center for National Affairs, author of Theories of the Self. Whether anesthetized, repressed, or acted out, people in New York City are all living with the potentially devastating anxieties induced by the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. The important question...
Dates: 2003 February 25

The War on the Bill of Rights, 2003 September 15

 File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents The Wolfson Center for National Affairs, in association with Harper's magazine and Seven Stories Press, presents a discussion of issues raised by Nat Hentoff in his new book The War On The Bill of Rights. Steven Brill, author of After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era; Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's; Nadine Strossen, President of the ACLU; and Kurt Vonnegut, author, join Nat...
Dates: 2003 September 15

Science: What has it Given Us?, 2003 October 7

 File — Box: Mixed nav_46, cassette: NS070218_AC202-203
Scope and Contents How does a democratic citizenry assess scientific research and debate that affects public policy? How do we temper our excitement and fears about discoveries and inventions that affect our personal health, the environments in which we live, and our most basic values with respect to privacy, social betterment, security and peace, etc.? How can lay people understand and make decisions about ethical and practical implications of scientific work? Where can we go for accessible information? In...
Dates: 2003 October 7