One of America's premier investigative journalists, Seymour Hersh shocked the world with his expose of the military's treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. His revelation of the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. He writes regulary for The New Yorker on military and security matters and is the author of many books. The 9th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award is presented annually to honor the memory of Mario Savio (1942-1996), spokesperson for Berkeley's Free Speech Movement of 1964, and the spirit of moral courage and vision which he and countless other activists of his generation exemplified; to promote...
Speaker: Lawrence H. Summers, Professor & President Emeritus, Harvard University
In this lecture, Professor Summers examines the 50-fold change over the last generation in the relative price of services and goods, such as hospital care and TV sets. These pricing results illustrate the profound changes taking place in modern economies. The character and extent of the changes wrought by information technology will force dramatic changes in the organization of economic life over the next generation -- and these changes will dramatically affect the size of the public sector, levels of inequality, the nature of working life, and the international division of labor.
Sponsored by the Goldman School of Public Policy
http://gspp.berkeley.edu/
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/lsummer/
The Philomathia Foundation Symposium at Berkeley: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future
Policy Leadership to Achieve the Sustainable Energy Future
Dian M. Grueneich, Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission
For more information, visit http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/energy/symposium/philomathia2010