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- International best-selling author and media personality Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, 'America's Rabbi' and world-renowned atheist and author Christopher Hitchens' in a hard-fought and electrifying debate on 'Is There An Afterlife?' The event, hosted by This World: The Values Network (www.thisworld.us), was moderated by author and actress Lisa Oz. Shmuley and Hitchens took no prisoners as they fought it out over the meaning of life and whether life ends with the termination of the body. This was their fourth debate and by all accounts the most illuminating, dynamic, and memorable. A fantastic mix of intellectual rigor, humor and spontaneity.
- On February 27, 1860, Abraham Lincoln addressed the Young Men's Republican Union in Cooper Union's Great Hall arguing against allowing slavery in the Western territories. This electrifying speech catapulted the little-known Midwesterner into the forefront of Presidential candidates on the Republican ticket and ultimately led to his election as the 16th President of the United States. From the same stage where Lincoln spoke over one hundred years ago, historian Harold Holzer describes the impact of the speech as well as his historical context, followed by actor Sam Waterston delivering the actual address.
- Filmed in The Great Hall, The Cooper Union Great Hall on April 28, 2014 during the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival Opening Night. Judith Butler speaks of turning rage and grief into theory and reflection which is inspired by her 2006 book and was one of 8 people to speak that evening. Judith Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist, whose work has influenced the fields of feminist, queer, and literary theory, political philosophy, and ethics. Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught since 1993. On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" challenge the sex/gender distinction and develops her theory of gender performativity Butler's conception of gender performativity has shaped the scholarship of feminist and queer studies. Butler has also been outspoken on many contemporary political issues. She has been active in lesbian and gay rights.
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