2004-2005 Fall Semester Lectures
Hermione Lee, Oxford University J.
Edward Farnum Lectures and Princeton University Press
September 27
Shelley’s Heart and Pepys’s Lobsters
September 28
Jane Austen Faints September 29
Virginia Woolf’s Nose
Walter E. Edge Lecture October 5
Barricelli's Universe:
Digital Computing in Princeton, 1945-1958 President's Lecture
October 12, 4:40 pm
Rip, Mix,
Burn, Sue: Technology, Politics, and the
Fight to Control Digital Media
Spencer Trask Lectures and Princeton University
Press
November 9
America's Two Visions: The Good and the Great
How Conservatives Came to Think Small
November 11
The Liberal Retreat from Ambition
Spencer Trask Lectures
November 16
Broadbanding America: What, Why, and How
December 2
Economics & the Roots of Terrorism
Henry Petroski,
Duke University
Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures and Princeton University Press
The Design of Everything: From Success to Failure
December 7
1. From Plato's Cave to PowerPoint:
An Illustrated
Lecture on the Illustrated Lecture
December 8
2. Good, Better, Better: Evolution of Imperfect Things
December 9
3. The Historical Future: The
Persistence of Failure
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