James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz; James Clifford, Associate Professor of English, Ohio State University; William Ferris, Former Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Stanley Katz, Former President of the American Council of Learned Societies and Professor in Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Catharine Stimpson, University Professor and former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University; M. Belinda Tucker, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Faculty Associate, Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA The academy has been under considerable pressure recently, both fiscally and fueled by new pressures on knowledge formation, and on pedagogical, and organizational form. The university as such has come into question, both within and without. This understandably has prompted both anxiety and critical responses among faculty, students, research and administrative staff. At the same time, there has been much less focus on the university we might be for, that which we might work together to promote, whether in the tradition of Bishop Newman's or Jan Pelikan's reflections on "the idea of the university" or in Jacques Derrida's critical conception of the university without condition. The distinguished panel will lead a discussion of "the university we are for". Please join us in the second of a series on what should be a dynamic discussion of a set of issues crucial to the contemporary academy.

The Rise of Asia and the Decline of the West Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Kishore Mahbubani for a discussion of the changing relationship between the West and Asia. In the interview, he describes the major transformations occurring because of the march of modernity made possible by the ideas and global institutions created by the West. He goes on to criticize the West for failing to adapt to the changing balance of power which follows from Asia's rise. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/