Joan Acocella presented her lecture as the 2004-2005 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley. Acocella is a dance and book critic for The New Yorker. She has served as the senior critic and reviews editor for Dance Magazine and New York dance critic for London's Financial Times. Acocella's writing conveys an enthusiasm for dance as an art form that taps human instincts and emotions at a visceral level. Her reviews have a wide appeal both for their sophisticated appreciation of performance and their down-to-earth and conversational style.
http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu
Risk Assessment and Management
Instructor Holly Doremus. This introductory course is designed to explore fundamental legal and policy issues in environmental law. Through examination of environmental common law and key federal environmental statutes, including the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air Act, and Clean Water Act, it exposes students to the major challenges to environmental law and the principal approaches to meeting those challenges, including litigation, command and control regulation, technology forcing, market incentives, and information disclosure requirements. With the addition of cross-cutting topics such as risk assessment and environmental federalism, it also gives students a grounding in how choices about regulatory standards and levels of regulatory authority are made.
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/students/curricularprograms/envirolaw/index.html
From Salvation to Spirituality
Susumu Shimazono,Professor of Religious Studies, University of Tokyo
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Susumu Shimazono, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tokyo for a discussion of popular religious movements in Japan. Professor Shimazono discusses the origins of his interest in religious studies; the role of religion in modernization; and the emergence of new religions as a global phenomena in the 1970s with special reference to Japanese examples. Professor Shimazono distinguishes these spiritual movements from salvation religions by
identifying their unique features and their future evolution. He also analyzes Aum Shinrikyo as an abhorrent manifestation. He concludes with an analysis of the implications of new religions for politics and suggests their strengths and weaknesses as an enduring phenomena.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
http://conversationswithhistory.typepad.com/conversations_with_histor/
http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1721