"So this is your fifth class of the day?" said John Stein, a Brown University biologist, introducing a lecture titled "Understanding How Memory Works".
Death on the Fringe is introducing a lecture strand this year, with four academic guest speakers from the world of medicine and palliative care; "death cafés" will be open afterwards, to encourage a more informal dialogue on the issues raised.
Last year he introduced a lecture with topical interests and havoc in it, as provided by 800 ft. of Spanish war scenes which he interspersed with typical slides of blue skies, and movies of native marriage and fiestas.
There was a trace of mischief in Michael Pollan's smile as he took the stage of Wheeler Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, last week to introduce a lecture for a course that he co-teaches, with the activist Raj Patel, called Edible Education 101.
By Amanda Little April 25 , 2014There was a trace of mischief in Michael Pollan's smile as he took the stage of Wheeler Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, last week to introduce a lecture for a course that he co-teaches, with the activist Raj Patel, called Edible Education 101.
"I remember one of the nicest things a colleague of mine in the United States said when he introduced a lecture of mine: that he had never met a German in academia in the United States who so little tried to hide that he's German," he says "I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens.
In 2013, Mr. Kotzias introduced a lecture by Alexander Dugin, an extreme Russian nationalist, at the Piraeus University of Athens, where Mr. Kotzias held an appointment.
Four years ago, he introduced a lecture, Medical Cannabis: From the Bible to Boston, at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston University, and other sites, when the topic was still somewhat taboo in both medical and religious circles.
This short clip could be used to introduce a lecture on this topic.
In the nineteenth century the great anatomist Richard Owen introduced a two lecture survey of Aristotle's zoological studies by declaring that "Zoological Science sprang from his [Aristotle's] labours, we may almost say, like Minerva from the Head of Jove, in a state of noble and splendid maturity" (Owen 1992, 91).
Prof. Alessandro Proclemer introduced a separate lecture on the Italian Pacemaker/ICD registry.
