Kentucky Author Forum

Win tickets to see Elaine Pagels at Kentucky Author Forum

Staff — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:14:07 +0000

WFPL is proud to sponsor the University of Louisville’s Kentucky Author Forum presentation of Elaine Pagels on March 19th at the Kentucky Center. Pagels is a religion scholar, professor at Princeton University, and author of The Gnostic Gospels and Revelations:Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation. She will be interviewed by Gustav Niebuhr, Associate Professor in Religion & the Media at Syracuse University and former New York Times Religion Correspondent.

Learning From Past Societies to Improve the Future: Jared Diamond

Brad Yost — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:05:26 +0000

Jared Diamond spoke in Louisville on January 9, 2013 as featured guest at the Kentucky Author Forum, discussing in detail his latest book, The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies. Diamond is an author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and bio-geographer, as well as a medical researcher and professor of geography at UCLA.

Win tickets to see Jared Diamond at Kentucky Author Forum

cspivey — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:02:00 +0000

WFPL is proud to sponsor the University of Louisville’s Kentucky Author Forum presentation of Jared Diamond on January 9th at the Kentucky Center. Diamond is an evolutionary biologist, professor of geography at UCLA, and author of The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies?

Diamond will be interviewed by Sarah Hrdy, Associate in the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard.

Predicting the Future of Artificial Intelligence: Ray Kurzweil

Brad Yost — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:48:44 +0000

Ray Kurzweil, arguably today’s most influential—and often controversial—futurist, is one of the leading inventors of our time and a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence. Among his inventions, Kurzweil was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition device, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.

Win tickets to see Ray Kurzweil and Jim Fleming at Kentucky Author Forum

cspivey — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:12:50 +0000

WFPL is proud to sponsor the University of Louisville’s Kentucky Author Forum presentation of Ray Kurzweil and Jim Fleming on November 26th at the Kentucky Center. Kurzweil is an inventor, a futurist, and author of How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. Kurweil will be interviewed by public radio's "To the Best of Our Knowledge" host, Jim Fleming.

Steven Pinker: World is Actually Less Violent Today; Why?

Brad Yost — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:21:11 +0000

Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker was the guest at the Kentucky Author Forum on Oct. 2, 2012, interviewed by NPR's Neal Conan. Pinker is a Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.

Pakistan, Afghanistan, Taliban: Weighing the Options With Ahmed Rashid

Brad Yost — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:40:17 +0000

The final Kentucky Author Forum of the 2011-12 season took place on May 15, 2012 and featured journalist Ahmed Rashid, an authority on the Taliban, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Rashid is author of Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan and Afghanistan. A leading journalist in Pakistan, Rashid draws on his keen knowledge of the region to explain what the future there may hold.

Erik Larson's Exploration of Hitler's Berlin

Brad Yost — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:32:14 +0000

Award-winning writer Erik Larson was the featured guest at the Kentucky Author Forum on April 16, 2012. He was interviewed by Robert Siegel, senior host of NPR’s newsmagazine, All Things Considered. Larson's In the Garden of Beasts is the saga of an American father and daughter who in July 1933 found themselves, and the rest of their family, transported to the heart of Hitler's Berlin.