First, in his MacTaggart lecture, director-general Greg Dyke laid into BBC1, saying it simply had to do better.
The whole story's hilarious, especially where the Heritage "lectures director" opens the session by addressing the audience (which was "small and mostly male, many of them apparently Heritage interns") with: "Wow.
A lecture from the director John Waters on Williams's influence promises to be a highlight.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY "Anthony Van Dyck: The Portraitist as History Painter," lecture with Richard Verdi, director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham.
The title of the lecture by Emily Bell, director of the Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at Columbia, is "Silicon Valley and journalism: make up or break-up?" It will be followed by a Q&A with Bell along with two other panellists: Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and Vivian Schiller, the former global chair of news at Twitter.
In the opening plenary lecture, Jesus Benavides, former director of CNS drug discovery at Sanofi, provided his perspectives on the ultimate challenge in medicine – the translation of scientific understanding to therapeutic innovation.
The first in a series of music lectures by Paul Somers, director of the Classical New Jersey Society.
Maybe it happened when Toby Ziegler, the communications director, lectured the president -- in Toby's increasingly pompous way -- about how he has to stop trying to prove himself to his long-dead father.
After participating in the strange festival of Senate testimony last week, I flew to San Francisco for an after-newspapers public event put on by my shop, the New America Foundation, and our cousin, the young Los Angeles-based nonprofit purveyor of lectures, Zocalo, whose director, Gregory Rodriguez, also runs our California fellows program.
Monday at 6 p.m., followed by director's lecture.
But a recital is not a lecture, cautions Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, artistic director of Carnegie Hall.
