Guest Talks

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E.J. Dionne, longtime op-ed columnist for The Washington Post; frequent commentator for NOR, ABC, and NBC; and award-winning author of four books including Why Americans Hate Politics. gives this year's Wilson Lecture on the timely topic of politics.

On February 17, 1960, Julius K. Nyerere, President of the Tanganyika African National Union, gave the closing speech at Wellesley College's Symposium on Africa entitled "Africa's Place in the World." He is introduced by Margaret Clapp, President of Wellesley College.

On February 17, 1960, Julius K. Nyerere, President of the Tanganyika African National Union, gave the closing speech at Wellesley College's Symposium on Africa entitled "Africa's Place in the World." He is introduced by Margaret Clapp, President of Wellesley College.

On February 17, 1960, Julius K. Nyerere, President of the Tanganyika African National Union, gave the closing speech at Wellesley College's Symposium on Africa entitled "Africa's Place in the World." He is introduced by Margaret Clapp, President of Wellesley College.

Steven Hamburg is a well-known forest ecologist, but he made a public name for himself by helping persuade Walmart to go green -- selling CFLs, retrofitting stores for energy efficiency, and developing a sustainability plan. Since 2008, Hamburg has been a Senior Scientist at the Environmental Defen…

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. has won numerous awards for its beer and also for its sustainability practices. Cheri Chastain, Sustainability Coordinator at Sierra Nevada, explained how the brewing company tracks and reports key performance indicators in energy, water, agriculture, transportation, recyc…

Joyce Klein Rosenthal, assistant professor of urban planning at Harvard University, gave a talk drawing on her expertise in environmental planning, sustainable development, and the public health effects of urbanization. Rosenthal moved from the history and design of cities to a discussion of the en…

Dr. Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google. In decades past, models of human language were wrought from the sweat and pencils of linguists.  In the modern day, it is more common to think of language modeling as an exercise in probabilistic inference from data: we observe how words and combinat…

Paul Frommer, creator of the Na'vi language for James Cameron's 2009 film "Avatar," talks about his involvement in the project. He discusses how he got the job, developed the language and worked with Cameron and the actors. He also speaks about the interplay of language and culture in the creation…