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Patrick Stewart lectured on “Acting Shakespeare” at Princeton University on December 5, 1995. Because the lecture was open to the public, and such a small venue was chosen--185 Nassau Street seats 220--students later complained that the mass of visitors to campus had shut them out of the lecture altogether. This event sparked discussion of ways to ensure students retained access to high profile lectures.
Advances Vs. Consequences: What Does The 21st Century Have In Store For Humanity?
“We now live in a time where the actions of a small group of people — whether through malicious or benign intentions — are capable of leading to global catastrophe. It's not just climate change or the threat of nuclear war that hangs over us; it's a slew of facts.
It matters that a mass extinction is occurring right now: we're destroying this planet's proverbial "book of life" before we've even read it.
It matters that computers are permeating ever-increasing facets of our life, as humanity's recently rising electricity use (after a plateau earlier this decade) is almost entirely due to new computational uses, like cryptocurrencies and blockchain.
It matters that the population is greater than ever before, as managing and distributing the edible food and drinkable water we produce is a greater challenge than ever before.”
Do you like big, sweeping conversations that tackle the biggest existential questions facing our species today? Looking to the larger picture, of humanity’s future on Earth, scientist Martin Rees has written a book detailing the challenges facing our civilization in the 21st century, and is about to deliver a public lecture on the topic of navigating the course that could lead us into a true golden age... or to ruin.
I’ll be live-blogging the lecture with many thoughts to add, and I hope you’ll join me in enjoying it!
Palestine and the World, a public lecture by Steven Salaita at Queen Mary University of London | April 8, 2026
Lecture announcement Feb 11, 2026:
Join CCAS, ACMCU, the African Studies Program, Georgetown University Qatar, and the Department of Theology & Religious Studies for a lecture with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. This is part of the 2025-2026 Gaza Lecture Series. Wednesday, Feb 11, 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm EST (11:00pm - 12:30am GMT+1) 3700 O St. NW, CCAS Boardroom, ICC 241, Washington..
Join CCAS, ACMCU, the African Studies Program, Georgetown University Qatar, and the Department of Theology & Religious Studies for a lecture
"Dr. George Scott: City Psychiatrist Defends School Dropouts," Kingston Whig-Standard. February 16, 1966. Page 38. ---- A prominent psychiatrist charged here Tuesday that the "high school dropout" doesn't deserve the social misinterpretation that the word attracts.
Dr. George Scott, director of the Kingston Institute of Psychotherapy, said that when the socially upright can find no whipping boy another one is invented and today a new enemy has been found in the high school dropout.
"Because he has been picked out by society as a problem, he assumes problem tics: He must be stupid, he must be lazy, he must be different and he must have no future."
Speaking to St. Andrew's-by-the-Lake United Church Men's Club in defence of the high school dropout, Dr. Scott said he has found the term extremely irritating because it implies that a dropout is a failure and is going to be a failure; that he may be mentally or emotionally backward and frequently is a delinquent; that he is a social menace because the complete amenity of social education.
Dr. Scott said "the present rather volcanic upsurges of new teaching methods, of altered tunnel like options" have forced students into a rather brain box category-the university types, the vocational types, the business option types.
"The school system is a mitotic giant and is always growing itself and always worrying itself into new dimensions," he added.
Dr. Scott claimed the teacher must be a combined machine-human, methodically recording date of school performance and at the same time attempting to preserve the second image of the teacher and his pupil.
"Whether his method is by example, by discipline, by exhortation, he is expected to motivate his students to at least some standing."
The psychiatrist said government requires everyone in its society to be self-supporting. As social schemes, old age pensions, birth bonuses and care become staples of the past, government must have productive self supporting individuals to keep the machine of society operating and to finance the immensely complicated social welfare plans.
He emphasized that an educated man of $10,000 a year income contributes $1,370 tax to the government. Another man of Grade 7 background earning $4,200 contributes $540.
"Government cannot afford to be altrustic. It must encourage the educational process as it must feed itself and support its obligation," Dr. Scott said.
He urged that the high school dropout be "considered in the scales of circumstances, adult image, reward deprivation, role confusion, the philosophy of the failure of success, the role of record dominance and the area of the near sick.
"Let us weigh him (the drop-out), weigh ourselves and weigh our friends. Let us weigh the past and the present.
"Who should throw the first stone?" he said.
Championing Change: Youth, Rights and the Power to Transform Societies.
The Rafael M. Salas Memorial Lecture series provides a unique forum for distinguished guest lecturers to discuss important aspects of popula
The Rafael M. Salas Memorial Lecture series provides a unique forum for distinguished guest lecturers to discuss important aspects of population and development.
This year's lecture will be delivered by Dr. Kakenya Ntaiya, a world-renowned educator and advocate for girls' health and human rights on the topic, "Championing Change: Youth, Rights, and the Power to Transform Societies".
The lecture will be followed by a high-level interactive panel discussion moderated by Yoshita Singh, Chief Correspondent, Press Trust of India.
On the lecture series:
The lecture series was initiated in 1989 as a tribute to Mr. Rafael M. Salas, who served as the first Executive Director of UNFPA. Under his leadership, UNFPA grew into the world's largest provider of multilateral population assistance. The first lecture was delivered by The Honorable Dr. Saburo Okita, former Foreign Minister of Japan, on Population and Development. The most recent speaker, in 2023, was Dr. Peter Piot, Special Advisor to the European Commission President, Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and former Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), on the topic of global health.
Watch the 20th Rafael M. Salas Memorial Lecture!
The billionaire tax – a (modest) proposal for the 21st century.
Lecture delivered by Gabriel Zucman (Paris School of Economics and UC Berkeley) on the prospect of a wealth tax on the ultra-wealthy hosted
Lecture delivered by Gabriel Zucman (Paris School of Economics and UC Berkeley) on the prospect of a wealth tax on the ultra-wealthy hosted by The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Watch The billionaire tax – a (modest) proposal for the 21st century!
