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INTELLECTUAL HEAVYWEIGHTS IN A SOUND BITE WORLD
April 15, 2010, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. EST.
VENUE: WNYC, The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space
160 Varick Street (between Charlton and Vandam Streets)
BRIAN LEHRER (WNYC radio host) with
GARY DORRIEN (Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University)
MELISSA HARRIS-LACEWELL (Associate Professor, Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University)
IRWIN KULA (President, Clal-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership)
IRSHAD MANJI (Journalist, activist, and Director, Moral Courage Project at New York University)
CLAY SHIRKY (Adjunct Professor of Interactive Telecommunications at New York University)
WNYC Radio's Brian Lehner will moderate a conversation among some of today's most compelling public intellectuals about the challenges of communicating–in sound bites–critical thinking that deepens understanding and inspires us to heal the world.