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List of Titles

Alphabetical List of Talk Titles [Speakers]

  • A Thousand and One Nights: a Tale of Two Tale-Collections [Roger Allen]
  • All You Want to Know About Diabetes, but Were Afraid to Ask Your Doctor [Stanley Schwartz
  • American Bestsellers (Fiction and Non-Fiction) [Peter Conn]
  • American Literature and American Painting [Peter Conn]
  • American Monuments and American Memory [Peter Conn]
  • American Politics in Historical Perspective [Walter Licht]
  • America’s Conflicting Constitutional Visions: The Quest for Common Ground [Rogers M. Smith]
  • America’s New Racial Divides: Protect versus Repair [Rogers M. Smith]
  • The Architecture of the Philadelphia Museum of Art [David B. Brownlee]
  • The Art of Biography [Peter Conn]
  • The Athenaeum of Philadelphia: the 200-year History of a Cultural Institution [Peter Conn]
  • Bananas: Biology, History, Politics [Scott Poethig]
  • BDS: What is the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement [Ian Lustick]
  • Best Treatment for Recurring or Chronic Mouth Sores [Martin Greenberg]
  • Cancer as a Complication of Diabetes [Stanley Schwartz]
  • The Crisis of Our Two Constitutions [Rogers M. Smith]
  • Dementia  as a Complication of Diabetes [Stanley Schwartz]
  • Diabetes Medications May Be a Cardiologist’s Best Friends [Stanley Schwartz]
  • Edward Hopper’s New York [Peter Conn]
  • Fiction and History (or vice versa) [Roger Allen]
  • Frank Lloyd Wright’s Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park [David B. Brownlee]
  • The Genetics of Food [Scott Poethig]
  • Gerrymandering and Redistricting Reform [Jack Nagel]
  • How to Slay the Gerrymander Now that SCOTUS Has Fled the Field of Battle [Jack Nagel]
  • How Victorian Eclectic Architecture Was Modern [David B. Brownlee]
  • Incretin Use in Hospitals for the Care of Patients with Diabetes [Stanley Schwartz]
  • Instant Runoff Voting [Jack Nagel]
  • Is the Constitution an Impediment to Democracy in America? [Jack Nagel]
  • ISIS [Roger Allen
  • Islam: What Muslims Do And Do Not Believe [Roger Allen]
  • Israel and the Palestinians: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality [Ian Lustick]
  • The Making of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway [David B. Brownlee]
  • New Directions for Understanding Diabetes [Stanley Schwartz]
  • Nothing We Eat Is Natural [Scott Poethig]
  • Philadelphia’s Economy: Past, Present, Future [Walter Licht]
  • A Plan for Reforming the Pennsylvania General Assembly [Jack Nagel]
  • The Poetry of Emily Dickinson [Peter Conn]
  • Race and Gender Differentials in the U.S. Workplace: A Review of the Evidence on the Sources [Janice Madden]
  • Race and NFL Coaching: My Insider’s Story of the Implementation and Success of the Rooney Rule [Janice Madden]
  • A Remedy for the Electoral College [Jack Nagel]
  • The Rise and Fall of American Trade Unionism [Walter Licht]
  • Shakespeare and Women [Phyllis Rackin]
  • The Time is Right for a New Classification of Diabetes [Stanley Schwartz]
  • Toward Better Stories of American Identity [Rogers M. Smith]
  • Trends and Transformations in American Racial Politics [Rogers M. Smith]
  • Turning Over a New Leaf: How Plants Develop [Scott Poethig]
  • The Two Homes of the Barnes Foundation [David B. Brownlee]
  • A Unified Pathophysiologic Construct of All Diabetes and its Complication [Stanley Schwartz]
  • The U.S. Economy in Historic Global Perspective [Walter Licht]
  • U.S. Electoral Institutions that Detract from Democracy–and Reforms that Could Enable Us to Do Better [Jack Nagel]
  • What Can You Do For Your Painful Jaw? [Martin Greenberg]
  • What is a “paradigm” and how does it “shift?” [Ian Lustick]
  • What is “critical theory” and is it dangerous? [Ian Lustick]
  • What We Owe to the History of Spain (illustrated) [Roger Allen
  • Where did Zionism come from and where is it going? [Ian Lustick]
  • Why is rationality so often the problem rather than the solution? [Ian Lustick]