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by NET NebraskaA cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues began in 1988 as part of a mission to promote better understanding of world events and issues by Nebraskans. This podcast is updated the day after a lecture in the series is given.
Recent podcasts
Grounded: A Reflection on the Use of Life and Land by Joel Sartore
A life-long Nebraskan, photographer Joel Sartore has covered everything from the remote Amazon rainforest to beer-drinking, mountain-racing firefighters in the United Kingdom. In addition to his celebrated work for National Geographic, which often focuses on conservation, endangered species, and land use issues, Sartore's work has been featured in Time, Life, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and numerous books. Sartore and his career have been the subject of several national broadcasts, including "National Geographic Explorer," the "NBC Nightly News," NPR's "Weekend Edition," and "CBS Sunday Morning," as well as an hour-long PBS documentary, "At Close Range."
Faith, Philosophy and Medicine: Reflections on Maimonides by Sherwin Nuland
Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Yale University School of Medicine and a Fellow at Yale's Institute for Social and Policy Studies. He is the author of nine books, including "Doctors: The Biography of Medicine," "The Wisdom of the Body," "The Mysteries Within," "Lost in America: A Journey with My Father," and "The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis." His book "How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter" won the National Book Award and spent thirty-four weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.
The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East by Clyde Prestowitz
Clyde Prestowitz is founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute, a Washington think-tank influential in the areas of international trade policy and specialized in how key sectors of the U.S. and world economy adapt to change, in particular the effects of globalization. Mr. Prestowitz served as counselor to the Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration and led many U.S. trade and investment negotiations with Japan, China, Latin America, and Europe. His latest book, "Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East," deals with the economic rise of Asia and the upcoming rebalancing of the world economic order and its impact on the United States. He is also the author of "Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions" and the best-selling book on U.S.-Japan relations, "Trading Places."
America: the Road Ahead at Home and Abroad by George McGovern
George McGovern was a United States Congressman, Senator, and the Democratic nominee for the 1972 presidential election. After leaving the Senate in 1980 he was a visiting professor at a number of institutions, including Columbia University, Northwestern University, Duke University, Cornell University and the University of Berlin. He served as President of the Middle East Policy Council from 1991-1998, when President Bill Clinton appointed him U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. In 2001, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan named him honorary United Nations Global Ambassador on World Hunger.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi, author of the national bestseller "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books," is the director of the Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., where she is a professor of aesthetics, culture, and literature, and teaches courses on the relation between culture and politics. She held a fellowship from Oxford and taught English literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University and Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran.
