Computer Science 61A, 001 - Fall 2013 Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

"Islam in the West" Jocelyne Cesari - Associate, Middle East Center, Harvard University Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard's Jocelyne Cesari for a discussion of the subtle and complex changes transforming Islam practice and thinking as Muslims live and work in the West. Topics covered include: Muslim women, the changes in religious practices, sharia and Western courts, the emergence of moderate voices, and political factors affecing Western perceptions of Islam. Recorded December 4, 2008 http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/

Ted Pearson's newest work lifts language "into the sphere of pure music, sheer meaningfulness." Come listen to these new works, elaborated over the course of thirty years, but fresh now in their insistence and brilliance. Sookyoung Lee will also be speaking, coming from the Philly area, the great state of New Jersey, and Seoul. She received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and is currently a graduate student in the English department at UC Berkeley.

The Role of Climate Change on Water Institutions in the Western Americas: Justice Gregory Hobbs of the Colorado Supreme Court addresses the role of climate in shaping water history, culture, policies, laws, and institutions in the western Americas. He draws on paleo-hydrological work in Peru and the southwestern United States as a framework for exploring adaptation of contemporary water policy and law, with concentration on the Colorado River Basin. Justice Hobbs is the author of In Praise of Fair Colorado, The Practice of Poetry, History, and Judging (Bradford Publishing Co. 2004) and Colorado Mother of Rivers, Water Poems (Colorado Foundation for Water Education 2005). Presented by the Water...