Two TED Talk Videos on Beauty and Pleasure

Alex Havasy, facilitator

11 a.m., December 26, 2021

In keeping with the holidays, at this Sunday’s Forum, we will watch and discuss 2 TED videos on beauty and pleasure: a 17:15 minute talk by Richard Seymour on how beauty feels, and a 16:17 minute talk by Paul Bloom on the origin of pleasure.

You can view these videos at:

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Program Change: How Culture Influences Our Emotions (and Why it Matters)

Video of Stanford Psychology Professor, Jeanne Tsai

11 a.m., December 19, 2021

Our previously scheduled speaker had to cancel her talk. We apologize for this late change.

Instead, we will watch and discuss a video of a talk by Stanford Psychology Professor, Jeanne Tsai, entitled “How Culture Influences Our Emotions (and Why it Matters)”.

Here is the description of the video:

“Which culture(s) do you identify with and how does that shape your mood, decision-making and emotions? Psychology Professor Jeanne Tsai, ’91, discusses how culture influences our feelings, particularly the emotions we want to feel. She also explores how these cultural differences affect how we perceive and treat others in an increasingly multicultural world.

Jeanne Tsai, ’91, is a professor of psychology and the director of Stanford’s Culture and Emotion Lab. Her research examines how culture shapes affective processes and the effects these cultural differences have on decision-making, how people think about health and illness, and how they perceive others in an increasingly multicultural world.”

You can view this 58-minute video from the Stanford Alumni Association at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak8eVjpNpfE.

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Video and Discussion: Secularism and Free Thinking

Susan Jacoby

11 a.m., December 12, 2021

This Sunday we will watch and discuss a video in which journalist and historian, Susan Jacoby, talks with Bill Moyers about the role secularism and intellectual curiosity have played throughout America’s history, a topic explored in her book, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Free Thought.

This is a Moyers and Company interview recorded in 2013. It runs 35 minutes 28 seconds. You can view it at youtube.com/watch?v=tZZfYIFr2nY.

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Video and Discussion: Confronting Disinformation – interview of David Sloss

Alex Havasy, discussion facilitator

11 a.m., November 28, 2021

This Sunday we will watch and discuss a video in which Paul George of the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center interviews David Sloss, an internationally renowned scholar who has published three books and a few dozen book chapters and law review articles, who will present a proposal about “Confronting Disinformation.”

This is a 59 minute video recorded last month. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A2A3asUULE.

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Video and Discussion: How the Net Destroyed Democracy – Prof. Lawrence Lessig

Alex Havasy, discussion facilitator

11 a.m., November 21, 2021

This Sunday we will watch and discuss a video in which Prof. Lawrence Lessig, an American academic, attorney, and political activist, discusses “How the Net Destroyed Democracy”.

This is a 27 minute video recorded in 2017. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHTBQCpNm5o.

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